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North Essex
A Deanery in the Diocese of Brentwood
Deanery
North Gwent
Deanery in the Archdiocese of Cardiff-Menevia
Deanery
North Kensington
Deanery in the Archdiocese of Westminster
Deanery
North Northants Pastoral Area: St Luke
St Luke
Deanery
North Presentation Primary School - North Presentation Primary School
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Catholic Primary School
North Tyneside
Cluster of Parishes in the Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle.
Cluster
North Walsham Hospital - North, UK
Hospital in North (Diocese of East Anglia)
Hospital
North West Catholic History Society - Salford, UK
To promote interest in the Catholic history of the region by issuing a journal and occasional publications and by organising conferences. Contact us for Subscriptions.
Organisation > Diocesan
North West Catholic History Society - Liverpool
To promote interest in the Catholic history of the region by issuing a journal and occasional publications, and by organising conferences. Subscriptions £15 pa.
Organisation > Diocesan
North West Durham
Cluster of Parishes in the Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle.
Cluster
North West Hampshire Hospital - Basingstoke
Organisation in the Diocese of Portsmouth
Chaplaincy > Hospital
North West Lay Dominican Fraternal Group - Liverpool
Those who have been known since the 13th century as Third Order Dominicans or Dominican Tertiaries are now usually referred to simply as Lay Dominicans. They bear witness in the world to the truth of Christ by sharing in the history, spirituality, practices, and apostolic works of the Dominican Order. The Dominican Laity is open to Catholic men and women, single or married, who desire to manifest God`s love in the world today. Lay Dominicans are members of `fraternities` or `fraternal groups` that meet regularly for prayer and study (including of events and issues in the Church today) to foster the proclamation of the truth in today`s society. The North West Fraternal Group meets six times a year in Liverpool and online for shorter meetings in between.
Organisation > Diocesan
Northampton Notre Dame Association - Northampton
An association of former Notre Dame High School pupils
Organisation > Diocesan
Northampton Pastoral Area: St Thomas of Canterbury
St Thomas of Canterbury
Deanery
Northampton Pioneer Total Abstinence Association of the Sacred Heart - Northampton
A lay organisation, founded in 1898, whose primary aim is the promotion of sobriety and temperance. Its chief means are prayer and self-sacrifice. Members pledge to abstain from all intoxicating liquor.
Northampton Pioneer Centre: President: Mr Sean Griffin, 83 Obelisk Rise, Kingsthorpe, Northampton NN2 8QU – Tel: 01604 844679. Email berniegriffin56@gmail.com
Meeting: St Gregory`s, Northampton, first Tuesday of each month
Luton Pioneer Centre: President: Mrs Kathleen Kiernan, 24 Filmer Road, Luton, Beds LU4 9BTel: 01582 576286
Secretary: Mrs Eileen Devane, 19 Fitzroy Ave, Luton, LU3 1RS. Tel: 01582 579334
Meeting: Holy Ghost Presbytery, First Monday of each month.
Organisation > Diocesan
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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
