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Out There - Salford Diocese, UK
Out There is a registered charity providing emotional and practical support and an information service for families of prisoners in Greater Manchester.
Organisation > Diocesan
Outreach Ministry - Gosport
A team of volunteers involved in the street outreach every Thursday afternoon and in Nightfever every other month. If you would like to be a street missionary and help with the Nightfever and Adoration Outreach you can contact Mike Slater at 07813154167 for more information.
Parish > Pastoral Group > Street Pastors
Ovens N S - Na Huamhna
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Catholic Primary School
Owenbeg N S - Owenbeg N S
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Catholic Primary School
Owning National School - Owning Con Piltown
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Catholic Primary School
Oxfordshire
Organisation in the Diocese of Portsmouth
Local Authority
Oxfordshire Pastoral Area
Deanery in the Diocese of Portsmouth
Deanery > Pastoral Area
PACT - Prison Advice and Care Trust - England and Wales
The Prison Advice and Care Trust (Pact) is a national charity that provides support to prisoners, people with convictions, and their families. We support people to make a fresh start, and minimise the harm that can be caused by imprisonment to people who have committed offences, to families and to communities.
Organisation
PACT - Prison Advice and Care Trust - Arundel & Brighton
Organisation in the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton
Organisation > Diocesan
PACT - Prison Advice and Care Trust - East Anglia
The national Catholic charity supporting the families of prisoners, those coming out of prison and prisoners themselves. Pact seeks to minimise the harm caused by a prison sentence, offering an opportunity for a fresh start. Pact work throughout England and Wales in courts, prisons and in the community. All of our work is supported by volunteers from parishes.
If you or someone you know is in need of support please call our free, confidential helpline on 0808 808 3444, email us helpline@prisonadvice.org.uk or fill in our helpline webform by visiting www.prisonadvice.org.uk/forms/contact-our-helpline.
For further information please contact Pact`s Parish & Supporter Relations Team, 29 Peckham Road, London, SE5 8UA.
Organisation > Diocesan
PACT - Prison Advice and Care Trust - Northampton
Organisation in the Diocese of Northampton
Organisation > Diocesan
Paddock N S - Paddock N S
ENGLISH
Catholic Primary School
Padley Chapel - Hathersage
Church in the Diocese of Hallam
Parish
Padraig Naofa N S - Wicklow Monastery B
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Catholic Primary School
Padraig Naofa N S - Padraig Nfta Avoca
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Catholic Primary School
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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
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