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Dunmanway B N S - Dunmanway B N S
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Catholic Primary School
Dunmanway Convent Inf - Dunmanway Con Inf Ns
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Catholic Primary School
Dunmanway Convent N S - Dunmanway Con N S
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Catholic Primary School
Durham (West)
Cluster of Parishes in the Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle.
Cluster
Durham University Catholic Chaplaincy - Durham
Organisation in the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle
Chaplaincy > University >
Durrington - Durrington
see WORTHING 2
Parish Redirection
Dysart Ns - Dysart Ns
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Catholic Primary School
Ealing
Deanery in the Archdiocese of Westminster
Deanery
Eanaigh Gheala N S - Eanaigh Gheala N S
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Catholic Primary School
East Anglia Catholic History Society - East Anglia
The East Anglian Catholic History Society is dedicated to promoting knowledge and study of the history of the Catholic faith in the region covered by the Diocese and to that end it aims to assist and advise local parish history groups, whether established or just setting themselves up.
Organisation > Diocesan
East Berkshire Head Teachers Cluster Group
Head Teachers Cluster Group
Diocese > Department > Education/Schools > Heads Cluster Group
East Lancashire Hospice - Blackburn
East Lancashire Hospice provides many different services. These are available to people with life-limiting illness, their families and others important to them. There is no set pattern for the services you can access, each person is assessed and a plan developed with your health and well-being at the centre of all we do.
Chaplaincy > Hospice/Nursing Home
East Surrey Hospital - Redhill
Organisation in the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton
Chaplaincy > Hospital
East Warrington Family
Deanery in the Archdiocese of Liverpool
Deanery > Pastoral Area
Eastbourne and St Leonards Deanery
Parishes: Battle, Bexhill-on-Sea, The Parish of Our Lady of the Rosary,Eastbourne, Eastbourne (Langney and Hampden Park), Hailsham and Polegate, Hastings, Rye, St Leonards-on-Sea, The Parish of the Good Shepherd
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Useful Definitions in the Catholic Church
What is a Catholic Bishops' Conference?
An episcopal conference, sometimes called a conference of bishops, is an official assembly of the bishops of the Catholic Church in a given territory. ... Individual bishops do not relinquish their immediate authority for the governance of their respective dioceses to the conference (Wikipedia).
What is an Archdiocese?
Dioceses ruled by an archbishop are commonly referred to as archdioceses; most are metropolitan sees, being placed at the head of an ecclesiastical province. A few are suffragans of a metropolitan see or are directly subject to the Holy See.
The term 'archdiocese' is not found in Canon Law, with the terms 'diocese' and 'episcopal see' being applicable to the area under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of any bishop.[8] If the title of archbishop is granted on personal grounds to a diocesan bishop, his diocese does not thereby become an archdiocese (Wikipedia).
What is a Diocese?
The group of churches that a bishop supervises is known as a diocese. Typically, a diocese is divided into parishes that are each overseen by a priest.
The original dioceses, in ancient Rome, were political rather than religious. Rome was divided into dioceses, each of which was made up of many provinces. After Christianity became the Roman Empire's official religion in the 4th century, the term gradually came to refer to religious districts. The Catholic Church has almost 3,000 dioceses. The Greek root of diocese is dioikesis, 'government, administration, or province.' (Vocabulary.com).
As of April 2020, in the Catholic Church there are 2,898 regular dioceses: 1 papal see, 649 archdioceses (including 9 patriarchates, 4 major archdioceses, 560 metropolitan archdioceses, 76 single archdioceses) (Wikipedia).
What is a Deanery
A subdivision of a diocese, consisting of a number parishes, over which presides a dean appointed by a bishop. The duty of the dean is to watch over the clergy of the deanery, to see that they fulfill the orders of the bishop, and observe the liturgical and canon laws. He summons the conference of the deanery and presides at it. Periodically he makes a report to the bishop on conditions in the deanery.www.catholicculture.org
What is a Parish?
In the Roman Catholic Church, a parish (Latin: parochia) is a stable community of the faithful within a particular church, whose pastoral care has been entrusted to a parish priest (Latin: parochus), under the authority of the diocesan bishop. It is the lowest ecclesiastical subdivision in the Catholic episcopal polity, and the primary constituent unit of a diocese. In the 1983 Code of Canon Law, parishes are constituted under cc. 515-552, entitled 'Parishes, Pastors, and Parochial Vicars.' Wikipedia
