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unusual facts about Dioceses



Alexandru Sterca-Șuluțiu

During his service the Diocese of Alba Iulia and Făgăraş (centred at Blaj) was removed from the jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Esztergom (in Hungary) and became an ecclesiastic province in its own right, with the Dioceses of Oradea Mare, Gherla and Lugoj as suffragans (subordinate dioceses).

Anglican Church of the Southern Cone of America

Until 1974, these missionary dioceses were under the metropolitical oversight of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Antoine Godeau

By a Bull of Pope Innocent X he was empowered to unite the Dioceses of Grasse and Vence under his administration, but seeing the dissatisfaction of the clergy of the latter diocese, he relinquished the former and established himself at Vence.

Augustine Harris

On 22 June 2006, the formal celebration of this event was held in the Liverpool's Metropolitan Cathedral where Bishop Harris was joined by Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, as well as, the Papal Nuncio, and twenty bishops, along with priests and lay people from the Liverpool and Middlesbrough dioceses.

Auribeau-sur-Siagne

In an agreement dated 5 June 1497 the Bishop of Grasse, Jean-André Grimaldi requested the people of the dioceses of Albenga and Ventimiglia to rebuild those houses within the village boundary.

Bishop Simon Bruté College Seminary

Seminarians from ten dioceses across the midwest, United States live at Bishop Simon Bruté Seminary and take classes at Marian University.

Brigidine Sisters

From there branches quickly spread to the dioceses of Sydney, Bathurst, Canberra-Goulburn, Perth and Brisbane as well as to the Archdiocese of Wellington, New Zealand, in 1898.

Catholic schools in the United States

The article also reported on "dozens of local efforts" to turn the tide, including by the Archdiocese of Chicago and Washington, D.C. and dioceses in Memphis and Wichita, Kansas, as well as in the New York City metro area.

Catholic University of Applied Sciences Mainz

The university was founded in 1972 and is operating on behalf of the Roman Catholic Dioceses Cologne, Limburg, Mainz, Speyer and Trier.

Catholicate of Abkhazia

At various periods of its existence, the Catholicate of Abkhazia was subdivided into several dioceses (eparchies), including those of Bichvinta, Kutaisi, Gelati, Tsageri, Tsaishi, Tsalenjikha, Chkondidi, Khoni, Ninotsminda, Nikortsminda, Shemokmedi, Jumati, Dranda, Bedia and Mokvi, centered on the respective cathedrals.

Churches in Norway

The catholic church in Norway is organized in three dioceses, each with their own cathedral.

Commemoration of the Passion of Christ

This latter feast was celebrated with an octave in all the dioceses of the former Kingdom of Naples.

Diocese of Bagnoregio

Ferdinando Ughelli, without any documentary proof, claims the Diocese of Bagnorea was joined to the Diocese of Viterbo on 4 February, 1449, but neglects to mention when they were reestablished as separate dioceses.

Diocese of London

Historically the diocese covered a large area north of the Thames and bordered the dioceses of Norwich and Lincoln to the north and west.

Diocese of Meath and Kildare

In 1976, the historic sees of Meath and Kildare were united (Kildare Diocese having for the previous century and a quarter been united with the neighbouring Dioceses of Dublin and Glendalough).

Dioceses of the Syriac Orthodox Church

Two West Syrian dioceses are known to have existed in the Beth ʿArabaye region between the sixth and fourteenth centuries, centred on Balad and Shigar (Sinjar) respectively.

Franciscan Province of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

As part of re-establishing normal church structures, the bishops worked to transfer parishes from the Franciscans to the diocesan clergy, but friars resisted, and in the 1940s, the two Franciscan provinces still held 63 of 79 parishes in the dioceses of Vrhbosna and Mostar.

François Norbert Blanchet

Then on July 24, 1846, the Vatican under Pope Pius IX divided the vicariate apostolic into three dioceses: Oregon City, Vancouver Island, and Walla Walla.

Georges Duby

Working from the extensive documentary sources surviving from the Burgundian monastery of Cluny, as well as the dioceses of Mâcon and Dijon, Duby excavated the complex social and economic relationships among the individuals and institutions of the Mâconnais region, charting a profound shift in the social structures of medieval society around the year 1000.

Joseph Deharbe

Bishop Blum of Linsburg introduced it officially into his diocese the same year; the following year the bishops of Trier and Hildesheim did likewise for their dioceses.

Kilcronaghan

On 29 March, 1609, a Papal Bull from Pope Paul V gave Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, the "advowson of certain Rectories and Perpetual Vicarages on the dioceses of Armagh and Derry, respectively".

Kočevski Rog

This area, known in German as Gottschee, was settled in the late 14th century by the Carinthian Counts of Ortenburg initially with colonists from the Ortenburg estates in Carinthia and Tyrol, and by other settlers who came from Austrian and German Dioceses of Salzburg, Brixen and Freising.

Mailapur

Dioceses of Saint Thomas of Mylapore, a Roman Catholic dioceses of Mylapore, Madras, India

Mamertus

Pope Leo I had regulated the boundaries of the ecclesiastical provinces of Arles and Vienne: under the latter he left the Dioceses of Valence, Tarentaise, Geneva and Grenoble, but all the other dioceses in this district were made subordinate to Arles.

Missionaries of St. Francis de Sales

The dioceses of Nagpur and Visakhapatnam have always been governed by prelates belonging to this institute.

Moynalty

The Synod of Kells in 1152 restructured Catholicism on Ireland, replacing a monastic system of directing the Irish Church with a system of parishes, dioceses and archdioceses.

Prefecture

Prefecture most commonly refers to a self-governing body or area since the tetrarchy when Emperor Diocletian divided the Roman Empire into four districts (each divided into dioceses, grouped under a Vicarius (a number of Roman provinces, listed under that article), although he maintained two pretorian prefectures as an administrative level above the also surviving dioceses (a few of which were split).

Quantum praedecessores

Hugh, Bishop of Jabala, one of the dioceses of Jerusalem, was among those who delivered the news.

Redones

D'Anville supposes that their territory extended beyond the limits of the diocese of Rennes into the dioceses of St. Malo and Dol-de-Bretagne.

Rocca dei Tre Vescovi

The name, meaning "Rock of the Three Bishops", derives from the fact that the mount is on the intersection point of three Catholic dioceses, those of Cuneo, Nice and Digne.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baghdad

The diocese is immediately subject to the Holy See and operates alongside eleven Chaldean dioceses, two Syrian Catholic, one Greek-Melkite, and one Armenian Catholic diocese.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Madrid

Pope John Paul II gave the Archdiocese Metropolitan status on 23 July 1991, while created two sufraganeous dioceses: Getafe and Alcalá de Henares.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio

All of Texas' dioceses had been suffragan sees under San Antonio until December 2004 when Pope John Paul II created the new Ecclesiastical Province of Galveston-Houston and elevated the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston to a Metropolitan See.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Clifton

The hierarchy was restored in 1850 by Pope Pius IX, and the Western District was created the Diocese of Clifton, so-called because the Ecclesiastical Titles Act 1851 made it illegal for Catholic dioceses to use the same title as current or former Anglican dioceses, despite the fact that the Diocese of Clifton had its Cathedral Church within the City of Bristol.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Quimper

Originally established in the 5th century, the diocese was restored by the Concordat of 1801, as the combination of the dioceses of Quimper, Saint-Pol-de-Léon and Tréguier in Brittany, France.

Roman Catholic dioceses in Great Britain

The Roman Catholic dioceses in Great Britain are organised by two separate hierarchies: the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland.

St Peter's Cathedral, Armidale

The cathedral building was designed by the Canadian architect John Horbury Hunt who also designed Booloominbah and Trevenna at the University of New England and cathedrals in the adjoining dioceses of Newcastle and Grafton.

St. John's College, Waterford

In the 1830s the college established a mission to Newfoundland in Canada, over the years the a number of priests trained would have served dioceses around the world, with about 250 serving in the United States.

Suffragan bishop

The dioceses of Leicester and Newcastle do not have suffragan bishops, but each has one stipendiary assistant bishop with very little difference from a suffragan bishop, except that they do not have a see.

Thaddeus McCarthy

The same year (1896) clerics in Ivrea agreed to donate major relics of Blessed Thaddeus to the dioceses of Cork & Ross and Cloyne.

Third Order Regular of St. Francis of Penance

During the 19th century, Brothers from the surviving communities in Ireland were invited to teach in the Dioceses of Brooklyn, Pennsylvania, and Spalding, Nebraska.

Thomas Yale

In the same year he became rector of Leverington in the Isle of Ely, and was one of the archiepiscopal commissioners for visiting the churches and dioceses of Canterbury, Rochester, and Peterborough.

Vilnius St. Joseph Seminary

The seminary prepares candidates for priesthood in the Vilnius Archdiocese and the dioceses of Panevėžys and Kaišiadorys.

Walter C. Righter

In 1990 another link was developed between the Dioceses of Iowa and Brechin with the Diocese of Swaziland in Africa.

William Bompas

William Carpenter Bompas (20 January 1834 – 9 June 1906) was a Church of England clergyman and missionary in northwestern Canada, first Anglican bishop of the Athabasca diocese, then of the Mackenzie River diocese and then of the Selkirk (Yukon) diocese as these dioceses were successively carved out of the original Rupert's Land diocese.


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