Pope Pius XI blesses Bishop Stephen Alencastre as fifth Apostolic Vicar of the Hawaiian Islands in a Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace window. In Catholicism, the pope is the bishop of the diocese of Rome. He creates the other dioceses throughout the world and chooses their bishops. In some Christian churches, the diocese is an administrative territorial unit governed by a bishop, sometimes also referred to as a bishopric or episcopal see, though more often the term episcopal see means the office held by the bishop. In the Roman Catholic Church, an important diocese, governed by an Archbishop is called an archdiocese (usually due to size, historical significance, or both). As of 2003, there are about 569 Roman Catholic archdioceses and 2014 dioceses in the world. Pic taken and uploaded by User: Aloysius Patacsil In a window in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu, Pope Pius XI prayerfully gazes to Saint Joseph, patron of the universal Church, with Msgr. ...
Pic taken and uploaded by User: Aloysius Patacsil In a window in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu, Pope Pius XI prayerfully gazes to Saint Joseph, patron of the universal Church, with Msgr. ...
Bishop (disambiguation). ...
A see (from the Latin word sedem, meaning seat) is the throne (cathedra) of a bishop. ...
The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ...
In Christianity, an archbishop is an elevated bishop heading a diocese of particular importance due to either its size, history, or both, called an archdiocese. ...
2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Events January events January 1 Luíz Inácio Lula Da Silva becomes the 37th President of Brazil. ...
Some Protestant churches such as the Church of England have inherited this diocesan structure directly, during the Protestant Reformation. Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ...
The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and acts as the mother and senior branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion as well as a founding member of the Porvoo Communion. ...
The Protestant Reformation was a movement which began in the 16th century as a series of attempts to reform the Roman Catholic Church, but ended in division and the establishment of new institutions, most importantly Lutheranism, Reformed churches, and Anabaptists. ...
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associated in a larger unit, the diocese. (Latin dioecesis, from a Greek term meaning "administration"). The Roman Empire is not the Holy Roman Empire (843-1806). ...
A Roman province (Latin, provincia, pl. ...
Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ...
The Greek language (Greek Ελληνικά, IPA – Hellenic) is an Indo-European language with a documented history of some 3,000 years. ...
The Catholic Church directly inherited this Roman structure of authority during the 5th and 6th centuries, as each bishop fully assumed the role of the former Roman praefectus. The transfer was facilitated by the Christian practice of setting the areas of ecclesiastical administration very exactly coinciding with those of the civil administration: in modern times, many an ancient diocese, though later divided among several dioceses, has preserved the boundaries of a long-vanished Roman administrative division. See further information concerning bishops in civil government at the entry Bishop. ( 4th century - 5th century - 6th century - other centuries) Events Rome sacked by Visigoths in 410. ...
(5th century — 6th century — 7th century — other centuries) Events The first academy of the east the Academy of Gundeshapur founded in Persia by the Persian Shah Khosrau I. Irish colonists and invaders, the Scots, began migrating to Caledonia (later known as Scotland) Glendalough monastery, Wicklow Ireland founded by St. ...
For other uses, see Bishop (disambiguation). ...
In the Roman Empire
The earliest use of "diocese" as an administrative unit was in the Greek-speaking East, applied for instance to three districts— Cibyra, Apamea and Synnada— that were added to the province of Cilicia in the time of Cicero, who mentions the fact in his familiar letters (EB 1911). The word, an equivalent to a tax-collecting district, came to be applied to the territory itself. In ancient geography, Cilicia (Ki-LIK-ya) formed a district on the southeastern coast of Asia Minor (modern Turkey), north of Cyprus. ...
In the reorganization of the empire that was begun by Diocletian and carried through by Constantine, the empire was divided into twelve dioceses, of which the largest, Oriens, included sixteen provinces, and the smallest, of Britain, included four. A list of Roman dioceses as the finally were in 395 CE can be found at the entry Roman province. Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus ( 245- 313 AD/CE), born Diocles, was Roman Emperor from November 20, 284 to May 1, 305. ...
A Roman province (Latin, provincia, pl. ...
Each diocese was governed by a praetor vicarius who was subjected to the praefectus. Between the 4th and 6th centuries, as the older administrative structure began to crumble, the position of the bishops in the Christianized Empire of Late Antiquity expanded to fill the vacuum. The senatorial aristocracy, especially in the provinces, remained a source of local authority. By this time, however, that authority was often vested in the spiritual office of bishop. It is therefore of little surprise that, as the Catholic and later the Eastern Orthodox churches began to define their administrative structure, they relied on the older Roman terminology to describe administrative units and hierarchy, and ecclesiastical and secular authorities blurred together. In the Eastern Empire, this became fundamental doctrine: see Caesaropapism. (3rd century - 4th century - 5th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 4th century was that century which lasted from 301 to 400. ...
(5th century — 6th century — 7th century — other centuries) Events The first academy of the east the Academy of Gundeshapur founded in Persia by the Persian Shah Khosrau I. Irish colonists and invaders, the Scots, began migrating to Caledonia (later known as Scotland) Glendalough monastery, Wicklow Ireland founded by St. ...
Late Antiquity is a rough periodization used by historians and other scholars to describe the interval between high Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages in Europe and the Mediterranean world - between the decline of the western Roman Empire from the 3rd century AD onward, to the resurgence of the West...
The Roman Senate (Lat. ...
Bishop (disambiguation). ...
Catholic is a term generally used in relation to the members, beliefs and practices of the Roman Catholic Church. ...
Eastern Orthodoxy (also called Greek Orthodoxy and Russian Orthodoxy) is a Christian tradition which represents the majority of Eastern Christianity. ...
The Byzantine Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered at its capital in Constantinople. ...
Caesaropapism is the phenomenon of combining the power of worldy (secular) government with the spiritual authority of the Christian Church; most especially, the subordination of the spiritual power of the Christian Church to governmental authority; in its extreme form, it is a political theory in which the head of state...
Christian hierarchy Christian usage in the modern sense of the sphere of a bishop's jurisdiction became commonplace only within the consciously "classicizing" structure of the Carolingian empire in the 9th century, but the usage had been taking over from the much earlier parochia ("parish") from the surfacing of the Christian authority structure in the 4th century (see EB 1911). The term Carolingian Empire is sometimes used to refer to the realm of the Franks under the dynasty of the Carolingians. ...
A parish is a subdivision of a diocese or bishopric within the Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Church of Sweden, and of some other churches. ...
See also In the Roman Empire, an eparchy was one of the political subdivisions of the Empire. ...
The term Eastern Rites may refer to the liturgical rites used by many ancient Christian Churches of Eastern Europe and the Middle East that, while being part of the Roman Catholic Church, are distinct from the Latin Rite or Western Church. ...
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The term Oriental Orthodoxy refers to the churches of Eastern Christian traditions that keeps the faith of only the first three ecumenical councils of the undivided Church - the councils of Nicea, Constantinople and Ephesus. ...
Patriarchs Bishops of Rome (Popes of Roman Catholic Church) Patriarch of Venice Patriarch of Lisbon Patriarch of the West Indies Patriarch of the East Indies Patriarchs of Constantinople Latin Patriarch of Constantinople Armenian Patriarchs of Constantinople Patriarchs of Alexandria (43-460) Orthodox Patriarchs of Alexandria Coptic Patriarchs of Alexandria (Popes...
In Roman Catholic theology and canon law, a particular Church is any of the individual constituent ecclesial communities in full communion with the Church of Rome. ...
Ecclesiastical Latin, sometimes called Church Latin, is the Latin language as used in documents of the Roman Catholic Church. ...
The Catholic Church in Great Britain is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and curia in Rome. ...
The diocesan system of church government in Ireland is almost 900 years old. ...
The following is a list of the Roman Catholic dioceses of the United States. ...
This page is a list of Church of England Dioceses, along with their geographic location and the foundation dates of those founded in the modern era, i. ...
The Church of Irelands diocesan system is based on the 900-year-old system set up by the Synod of Rathbreasail. ...
The Episcopal Church in the United States of America is governed by 100 dioceses, each led by a bishop. ...
External links - Encyclopedia Britannica 1911 (http://5.1911encyclopedia.org/D/DI/DIOCESE.htm)
- Virtually complete list of current and historical Catholic dioceses worldwide (http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/)
- Another such list, in English and Norwegian (http://www.katolsk.no/utenriks/index_en.htm)
- List of current Anglican/Episcopalian dioceses (http://anglican.org/domain/admin/bydiocese.html)
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