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Cathedral Church Of Ss Peter And Paul - Clifton Park, UK
Cathedral Parish ofCathedral Church Of Ss Peter And Paul in Clifton Park, Bristol (Diocese of Clifton)
Parish > Cathedral
Cathedral Church of St Alphonsa (St Ignatius) - Preston, Lancs, UK
Cathedral Church of St Alphonsa (St Ignatius) - Preston, Lancs. Cathedral of the Syro-Malabar Eparchy (Diocese).
Parish
Cathedral Church of St Barnabas - Nottingham, UK
Cathedral Parish of Cathedral Church of St Barnabas in Derby Road, Nottingham (Diocese of Nottingham).
Parish > Cathedral
Cathedral Church of St Joseph - Swansea, UK
Cathedral Parish of St Joseph in Greenhill, Swansea Menevia Cathedral (Diocese of Menevia).
Parish > Cathedral
Cathedral Church Of St Mary - Clayton Street West, UK
Cathedral Parish of Cathedral Church Of St. Mary in Clayton Street West, Newcastle Upon Tyne (Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle).
Parish > Cathedral
Cathedral Church Of St Mary and St Helen and Holy Cross and All Saints - Brentwood, UK
Cathedral Cathedral Church Of St Mary & St Helen in Brentwood, Essex (Diocese of Brentwood)
Parish > Cathedral
Cathedral Church Of St. John The Baptist - Norwich, UK
Cathedral Parish of Cathedral Church Of St. John The Baptist in Norwich, Norfolk (Diocese of East Anglia)
Parish > Cathedral
Cathedral of Our Lady Immaculate & St Thomas of Canterbury - Northampton, UK
Cathedral Parish of St Thomas of Canterbury in Northampton, Northamptonshire (Diocese of Northampton).
Parish > Cathedral
Cathedral of Our Lady Immaculate & St Thomas of Canterbury - Northampton
Church in the Diocese of Northampton
Parish > Church Community
Cathedral of St Mary of the Assumption - ABERDEEN, UK
Catholic Parish of Cathedral of St Mary of the Assumption in ABERDEEN - part of the Diocese of Aberdeen
Parish
Cathedral Parish of St Peter & St Thomas More - Lancaster, Lancashire, UK
Cathedral Parish of Cathedral Parish of St Peter & St Thomas More in Lancaster, Lancashire (Diocese of Lancaster).
Parish > Cathedral
Cathedral Santuario de Guadalupe
Catholic Parish in the Diocese of Dallas, Texas
Parish
Catholic Church in Jersey - St Helier, Jersey
Churches in Jersey- Part of the Parish of Jersey in the Portsmouth Diocese.
Parish > Parish Division
Catholic Church, ABERGELE - ABERGELE, UK
A warm and welcoming Parish in the Wrexham Diocese.
Parish
Catholic Church, BALA - BALA, UK
A warm and welcoming Parish in the Wrexham Diocese.
Parish
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
