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Association of Interchurch Families - Northampton
The Association offers a support network for interchurch families, where husband and wife are practicing Christians committed to different Churches, usually a Catholic and a Christian of another communion, for partners and parents, for growing children and young adults. It also offers an information service to all concerned for their welfare (clergy and ministers, relatives and others). AIF gives interchurch families a voice in the churches: this is done by articulating the experience of these families i n all their diversity, by focusing attention on interchurch couples` need for pastoral care which takes seriously both their marriage commitment to one another and the fact that two churches are represented in their family, by affirming at local, national and global level the gifts of interchurch families and their potential as a catalyst for the wider unity of Christians.
Organisation > Diocesan
Association of the Ladies of Charity - Salford Diocese, UK
The Association was founded by St Vincent de Paul In 1617. The aims of the Association are
to visit the elderly, the sick and the lonely in their homes and also in hospitals or nursing
homes giving them spiritual and practical help or simply keeping them company. There are
seven active branches in the diocese working in close conjunction with members of parish
SVP societies.
Organisation > Diocesan
Aston University - Aston, UK
Aston University Catholic Chaplaincy in Aston, West Midlands where everyone is very welcome.
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Atherton - Tyldesley
Church in the Archdiocese of Liverpool
Parish Redirection
Atherton - Hindley Green
Church in the Archdiocese of Liverpool
Parish Redirection
Atherton - Hindsford
Church in the Archdiocese of Liverpool
Parish Redirection
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Aughavas Ns - Aughavas
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Aughton - Melling
Church in the Archdiocese of Liverpool
Parish Redirection
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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
