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- Aston-le-Walls
Church in the Diocese of Northampton
Parish > Environmental > Food Bank
- Alresford
see St Peter & The Winchester Martyrs
Parish Redirection
- Bishops Waltham
Church in the Diocese of Portsmouth
Parish Redirection
- Bitterne
Church in the Diocese of Portsmouth
Parish Redirection
- Chandlers Ford
Church in the Diocese of Portsmouth
Parish Redirection
- Church Crookham
Church in the Diocese of Portsmouth
Parish Redirection
- Douai Abbey
Church in the Diocese of Portsmouth
Parish Redirection
- Eastleigh
Church in the Diocese of Portsmouth
Parish Redirection
- Emsworth
Church in the Diocese of Portsmouth
Parish Redirection
- Faringdon
Church in the Diocese of Portsmouth
Parish Redirection
- Guernsey
Church in the Diocese of Portsmouth
Parish Redirection
- Hartley Wintney
Church in the Diocese of Portsmouth
Parish Redirection
- Lee-on-the-Solent
Church in the Diocese of Portsmouth
Parish Redirection
- Liss
Church in the Diocese of Portsmouth
Parish Redirection
- North Hinksey
Church in the Diocese of Portsmouth
Parish Redirection
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).
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).
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).
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
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