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7 unusual facts about diocese


Anglican Bishop of Lucknow

The Bishop of Lucknow was the Ordinary of the Anglican Diocese of Lucknow from its inception in 1893 until the foundation of the Church in India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon in 1927; and since then head of one of its biggest Dioceses.

Bishopric

Diocese, an ecclesiastical region run by a bishop in the Roman Catholic, Orthodox Christian, Anglican and some Lutheran churches

James Ogilvie

It was because of this that Ogilvie resigned his rights to this bishopric, and in compensation, became Commendator-Abbot of Dryburgh.

Liceo de San Pablo

Liceo de San Pablo, formerly Ateneo de San Pablo, is a private sectarian, diocesan Catholic school in San Pablo City, Laguna.

Main Street Theater

Founding Artistic Director Rebecca Greene Udden enlisted a collection of theater professionals in a temporary home at Autry House, the Episcopal Diocese's community center on Main Street—hence, the new group's name.

Operation Bretagne

Four Mobile Groups (Groupes Mobiles, GM) and General de Berchoux's two Amphibian Sub-Groups hunted and engaged the 9th Regiment (Division 304) and the 48th Regiment (Division 320) who were threatening the bishopric of Bui Chu.

Ratzeburg

Henry the Lion became the ruler of the town in 1143 and established a bishopric in 1154.


Basel Evangelical Mission Parsi High School, Thalassery

The school, managed by the North Kerala Diocese of the Church of South India, was upgraded to a high school by Rev. C. Mueller who came here to assist German missionary Hermann Gundert.

Charles Victor Grahmann

During his tenure, the scandal of Rudolph Kos, a pedophile priest of the Dallas Diocese, came up.

CYMA – Canadian Youth Mission to Armenia

CYMA was founded in late 1992 through a collaboration between Archbishop Hovnan Derderian, then primate of the Canadian Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church, and university student Ronald Alepian.

Diocesan Synod

The House of Clergy consists of clergy representatives chosen by the clergy in each Deanery Synod, together with a number of ex officio members -- any other assistant bishops working in the diocese; the dean of the cathedral; the archdeacons of the diocese; the clergy elected to the General Synod for the diocese (known as Proctors to the Lower House of Convocation), and some others.

Diocese of Cahul and Comrat

The Diocese of Cahul and Comrat was established on July 17, 1998, by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church to shepherd the Orthodox Church in southern Moldova.

Diocese of Lindi

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Songea was known as the Diocese of Lindi from December 15, 1927 until December 23, 1931

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.

Donald Edmond Pelotte

On January 3, 2008, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Thomas J. Olmsted, Bishop of Phoenix, as apostolic administrator sede plena of the diocese of Gallup, and granted Pelotte a one year leave of absence to continue his recovery.

Easson

Frederick Easson (1905–1988), Scottish Episcopal Church bishop of the Diocese of Aberdeen and Orkney in Scotland, United Kingdom

Edward John O'Dea

During his time as bishop, O'Dea moved the episcopal see of the diocese from Vancouver, Washington to Seattle, and the diocese was renamed the Diocese of Seattle.

Edward Likowski

He gained a bachelor's in 1861 from Monastir and was ordained a priest on 21 December 1861 in the diocese of diocese of Gniezno-Poznań.

Episcopal Diocese of Georgia

However, the Diocese reorganized Christ Church with a basically new congregation in the early 2010s, and the town of Moultrie had another Episcopal parish for residents of Colquitt County to attend, minimizing the trauma of those two defections.

Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee

Nashotah House, in Nashotah, which is a seminary for the Episcopal Church, and St. John's Northwestern Military Academy in Delafield, Wisconsin, a private Episcopal military academy, are also located in the Diocese of Milwaukee.

Estonian Orthodox Church

Estonian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate, a semi-autonomous diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church

George Garmo

Also, while serving as Pastor for Mother of God Church on September 1977, Garmo received Sarhad Yawsip Jammo as an Associate Pastor, who later be named the first bishop of the St. Peter the Apostle Diocese in the US.

Godbald

This was shown by his involvement in the founding of the St. Laurens abbey near Oostbroek at De Bilt, which was the first monastery in the diocese to join the Cluniac movement.

Henry VIII of Legnica

In 1388, Henry VIII, in exchange for his resignation of the administration of the diocese of Wroclaw, received from Pope Urban VI the Bishopric of the remote Cambrai in Flanders.

Johannes Bündgens

In 2002 he was appointed as priest for several parishes in Heimbach (Eifel), he also worked in the diocese for the beatification of Heinrich Hahn.

John Quinn Weitzel

The new Diocese of Samoa-Pago Pago was created in 1982 from territory carved from the Diocese of Samoa and Tokelau.

Jonathan Meyrick

He returned to the Diocese of Oxford as Team Vicar of Burnham with Dropmore, Hitcham and Taplow until 1990, when he moved to become Team Rector of Tisbury, Sarum and Wells until 1998.

Maasin

The diocese comprises the entire province of Southern Leyte, and the towns of Matalom, Bato, Hilongos, Hindang, Inopacan and Baybay in the province of Leyte, with the Maasin Parish Cathedral as the seat of the diocese.

Mac Con Midhe

There was a branch of this Ulster sept who were erenaghs of Comber, on the river Foyle in the deanery of Derry, and they are recorded as such as late as 1606 when Bishop Montgomery's survey of the diocese was made.

Manuel Duran Moreno

On January 12, 1982, Pope John Paul II appointed Bishop Moreno as the Bishop of the Diocese of Tucson.

Mar Aprim Khamis

Since 1994, he serves as Bishop for the Diocese of Western United States, with his see in Phoenix, Arizona.

Neil Lebhar

In 2007, objecting to the consecration of Gene Robinson and the theological views of the TEC, Lebhar and several other clergy and parishes left the Diocese of Florida and sought canonical affiliation with the Church of Uganda.

Newton Abbey

Heinlein was encouraged by Bishop Thomas Spreiter of Zululand, who happened to be in the United States raising funds for his diocese.

Paul Mbiybe Verdzekov

On March 18, 1982 he became archbishop of Bamenda when his diocese was elevated to archdiocese by Pope John Paul II.

Racho of Autun

Racho holds a tenuous place in authentic history as the predecessor in the diocese of Autun of Leodegar, a fully historical figure who was the great opponent of Ebroin— the mayor of the Palace of Neustria— and the leader of the faction of Austrasian great nobles in the struggles for hegemony over the waning Merovingian dynasty.

Rafael Guízar y Valencia

Named Bishop of Xalapa, he was driven out of his diocese and forced to live the remainder of his life in hiding in Mexico City.

Ramon, Isabela

Just recently, Bishop Sergio Utleg, DD, the Ordinary of the Diocese of Ilagan(now the Archbishop of Tuguegarao), offered the Parish of San Roque to remain under the "in perpetuum" care of the Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette.

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.

Religion in Macau

Following the end of the British administration of Hong Kong in 1997, in 1998 the Diocese was succeeded by the Province of Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui (commonly called the Hong Kong Anglican Church).

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Malta

There are two cathedrals in the diocese: The Metropolitan Cathedral of St. Paul's, in Mdina, and St. John's Co-Cathedral, located in Valletta.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ozamiz

On February 17, 1971 Pope Paul VI elevated the Prelature of Ozámiz into a diocese with the Most Reverend Jesus Varela serving as the first sitting Bishop.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Bayonne

Until 1566, the Diocese of Bayonne included much Spanish territory, i.e. the four Archpresbyteries of Baztan, Lerin, Bortziria in Navarre, and Hondarribia in Guipuzcoa, a remnant of Charlemagne's conquests beyond the Pyrenees.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Bolzano-Brixen

In turn, the Austrian parts of the Brixen diocese around Feldkirch, Vorarlberg were at first allocated to the Diocese of Innsbruck and elevated to the Diocese of Feldkirch in 1968; the Ladin districts of Fodom (Livinallongo del Col di Lana and Colle Santa Lucia) and Anpez (Cortina d’Ampezzo) passed from Brixen to the Diocese of Belluno.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Cabanatuan

The diocese comprises 16 towns of the province including the cities of Cabanatuan, Palayan and Gapan.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Calbayog

Samar and Leyte, two civil provinces in the Visayan group of the Philippines, which include the islands of Balicuatro, Batac, Biliran, Capul, Daram, Homonhon, Leyte, Manicani, Panaon, Samar and several smaller islands, make up the diocese of Calbayog, a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Manila.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Darwin

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Darwin is a suffragan Latin Rite diocese of the Archdiocese of Adelaide based in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Metuchen

The cross is taken from the arms of the See of Trenton from which the diocese was formed; the tongue of fire refers both to "metachen," Lenni Lenape for firewood, and the descent of the Holy Spirit; the crowned M refers to the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the diocesan patron, founding bishop Theodore McCarrick's arms, and Pope John Paul II's arms.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Ngong

The diocese had been vacant since the resignation of Bishop Cornelius Schilder, M.H.M. in August 2009.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Parramatta

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Parramatta is a suffragan Latin Rite diocese of the Archdiocese of Sydney, established in 1986, covering the western suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Roermond

Originally established on 12 May 1559, the diocese was suppressed during the Napoleonic era.

Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego

In addition, the diocese includes 45 elementary schools, 5 high schools and 2 universities (University of San Diego and John Paul the Great Catholic University).

Santosh Marray

In September, 2012, Bishop Marray accepted the call to the position of Assistant Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama, under the Right Reverend John McKee Sloan.

St Colman's Cathedral, Cobh

The original thirteenth century cathedral of the diocese, situated in the small east Cork town of Cloyne, was owned by the Church of Ireland.

Supreme Bishop

:- Ecclesiastical Governor of the Diocese of Nueva Segovia, (Roman Catholic Church).

Terry Drainey

In 1991, upon leaving Africa, Drainey returned to the Salford diocese where he was appointed parish priest at the church of the Holy Cross, Patricroft, Eccles in Salford, where he served for the next six years prior to being appointed spiritual director to the Royal English College at Valladolid in 1997.

William E. Lori

Lori has opposed legislation in Connecticut proposed by State Rep. Michael P. Lawlor and Sen. Andrew McDonald that would remove control of the diocese from the bishop and place it in the control of the laity.


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