| If the church refuses to pay, it risks being disestablished from the diocese. |
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| In my diocese I get an average of 10 calls a week from my clergy seeking my approval for them to marry divorcees. |
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| The retired priest is one of a team of 12 exorcists in the diocese called out to deal with haunted buildings and occult disturbances. |
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| And it was in York that he established a bishopric, probably because that had been the centre of the old Romano-British diocese. |
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| He is qualified for appointment as chancellor of the diocese and has satisfied the bishop that he is a communicant. |
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| His collaborator, the Rev. John Sanders, was an Indian clergyman in Bishop Horden's diocese. |
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| Each diocese was then divided into parishes, with each parish containing just one church. |
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| The current bishop still remained committed to the project, but the synod of the diocese voted against continuing construction. |
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| The bishop of my own diocese acknowledged as much in his pastoral letter on the subject. |
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| The books were then distributed among subject teachers in four boarding schools in a diocese the area of about three English counties. |
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| Before Ruiz retired in 2000, the Vatican placed a bishop coadjutor in his diocese. |
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| Mr Fielding is director of education in the diocese of Grahamstown and archdeacon of Albany. |
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| Critics of the plans claimed the bishop should have shut other churches in the diocese if he wanted to save money. |
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| It is located in the diocese of Lucknow, one of 27 dioceses in the Church of North India. |
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| He had been due to appear before the Consistory Court of the diocese of Ripon and Leeds, opening in Leeds on Monday. |
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| The diocese continues to insist that there never was a plan to remove the screen and says it was only one embryonic idea among others. |
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| The individual who wishes to resign his duties as a priest normally asks his diocese for a leave. |
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| In 1777 Maria Theresa secured the erection of a diocese for the Uniat Greeks, with the Eastern Rite and the Old Slavonic Liturgy. |
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| The 150-strong choir is made up of choristers from parish choirs from throughout the diocese. |
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| It is in the east of the diocese and borders Kruger National Park, which is the biggest wildlife park in the world. |
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| Representatives from every parish in the diocese, along with civic and business leaders, gathered in tribute. |
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| It's theologically unsupported and pastorally disastrous and it's tearing our diocese apart. |
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| Pioneering work in the diocese at this time was extremely difficult, setting out lands for the building of schools, convents etc. |
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| The country of Luxembourg is covered by one diocese that contains 13 deaneries and 265 parishes in total. |
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| Rather than dump him out of the priesthood, as happened in other dioceses, Dublin diocese decided to help him responsibly manage his life. |
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| Wilson he was forced to lie and the diocese produces a signed statement disavowing his involvement in the letter. |
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| But my lot is cast in with the West Indian disendowed Church, and with the poorest diocese thereof. |
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| It is the first report card on how each U.S. diocese or eparchy is carrying out the bishops' 2002 Charter. |
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| Bishop Robinson will be in Ireland in October to address the annual retreat of the diocese of Limerick and Killaloe in the Dingle Skelligs hotel. |
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| A large version of the candle will be lit in every church in the diocese at Christmas. |
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| If the bishop is the final word on governance in his diocese, then he can openly defy the Pope in matters of governance. |
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| He stressed that while the rectory is the vicar's home, the property belongs to the diocese, which made the final decision to carry out the work. |
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| And he brought to the diocese a freshness, energy and enthusiasm that took our breath away. |
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| What would happen if a diocese wanted to laicise a priest but the Vatican said no? |
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| Nothelm consecrated three bishops during his archiepiscopate and agreed to the division of the Mercian diocese. |
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| Fr Cashman, has rejected a request that he retires from the diocese and wants to remain on as a practising curate in the parish. |
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| He returned to his own diocese and up until his death he served the archdiocese of Melbourne with distinction. |
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| A spokesperson for the diocese said yesterday no priest currently ministering in the area was under investigation. |
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| The bishop of the diocese is now pondering whether to reconsecrate the site after news of what happened there emerged. |
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| Having exercised his ministry in two of our three archdeaconries, he probably knows the diocese as well as anyone. |
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| This is a benevolent fund of the diocese set up to make provision for retired clergy. |
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| In 1971 Fr. Vincent was asked by his provincial to go to the diocese of Kumasi in Ghana, where he spent most of his remaining years. |
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| Tomas is a very popular young man and we wish him joy and fulfilment in his ministry as a priest of the diocese. |
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| The archdeacon John Collas will administer the Adelaide diocese until a new archbishop is found early next year. |
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| The papal nuncio here, Archbishop Giuseppe Lazzarotto, is expected to consult with priests in the diocese regarding a successor. |
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| Others attribute authorship to the mendicants who provided spiritual counsel to women in the Liege diocese. |
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| He talked lovingly and caringly about the priests and people of the diocese of Waterford and Lismore. |
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| The Archbishop wishes to see a diverse diocese, representing a rainbow nation. |
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| It was bombarded with complaints from the nuncio, the apostolic administrator for the diocese and other senior clerics. |
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| On April 22, 1575, Carlo Borr omeo obtained permission from Pope Gregory XIII to carry out such a visitation of the diocese of Bergamo. |
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| Until 1059 Popes were elected not by cardinals but by the clergy and laity of the diocese of Rome. |
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| The ceremony took place at The Cathedral of the Assumption, mother church of the diocese. |
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| There are other important people in the diocese who have to be there too, such as the archdeacons and rural deans. |
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| We are a small diocese, carved out of Denver's archdiocese in the 1980s, with a tradition of strong lay leadership. |
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| He was a conspicuous pluralist in the diocese, annexing to his bishopric a number of Salisbury prebends, two abbeys, and several churches. |
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| He identified parish renewal as a priority for the diocese and voiced his support for the introduction of a lay diaconate. |
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| Jeffrey Steenson is Canon to the Ordinary in the Episcopal diocese of the Rio Grande. |
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| I have been proud of those ministers in our diocese who have willingly moved into tough areas. |
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| On Holy Thursday, April 20, community groups throughout the diocese will bring water to their church from local sources. |
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| She will be one of three women deacons in the diocese, but only until June 24 when the other two become priested. |
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| I had seen him in procession with his golden crook, preceded by the priests of his diocese, dressed up in all the tawdry of their canonicals. |
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| The cathedral is the mother church of the diocese of Chelmsford which has more than 600 churches throughout Essex and east London. |
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| Until the dissolution of the monasteries, Oxford came within the diocese of Lincoln, with the chancellor appointed by the bishop. |
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| Father Taraborelli is a trained exorcist for the Rome diocese, and his work schedule is very busy. |
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| Four lay people from each diocese joined the priests to form the bureau's first council before information cards were pinned up in church porches all over the county. |
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| His predecessor had just banned three priests in his diocese from public ministry. |
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| Also, I trusted that all the files in my former diocese would be examined. |
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| Anyone who crossed the wrong cardinals in Rome risked being sent to oversee the troubled American diocese. |
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| The trip was part of a 15-visit programme to every deanery in his diocese. |
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| The secretary of the Southwark diocese explains that centralisation of stipendiary obligations has taken place in conjunction with devolution of more day-to-day duties. |
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| This is a concrete gesture in the Pope's own diocese, which reinforces what the Holy Father called for in the 1984 indult and in his 1988 letter Ecclesia Dei Adflicta. |
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| These banns could easily involve parishes outside the diocese. |
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| Others lingered at home to comfort the faithful in their diocese before heading to Rome for the funeral and the secret voting sessions of the conclave. |
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| I fear the day when the laity selects the bishop of each diocese. |
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| The understanding of the role of the bishop in a diocese involves seeing the bishop as representing Jesus Christ among the priests and people of his diocese. |
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| The Museum conserves some very important guadamacil pieces, especially the really exceptional collection of altar frontals from various churches within the diocese of Vic. |
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| Though the modern bishopric was not carved out of the York diocese until 1836, Ripon's early ecclesiastical history is inextricably associated with Wilfrid. |
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| Each diocese has been asked whether the Church's own guidelines are being followed in relation to the recommendations, including involvement in inter-agency committees. |
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| An antiquary by inclination, he chairs the county archaeological society which has an active field group and he acts as archaeological advisor for the diocese. |
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| After Saturday's installation ceremony, the new bishop met the people of the diocese in the cathedral grounds and later at a reception in St. Leo's College Assembly Hall. |
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| He had an equally high-handed way with the monasteries in his diocese and in his filet year as bishop deposed no fewer than eleven abbots and priors. |
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| Laing was Rector of Tannadice in Angus, Vicar of Linlithgow, and Rector of Newlands in the diocese of Glasgow when he was provided to the See of Glasgow. |
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| Many focus on the Cathedral as the Mother Church of our diocese. |
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| They are contained in a 434-page report on the diocese which follows on from a parish-by-parish visitation conducted by Bishop Miller over the last number of months. |
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| The northern part of the diocese, the old archdeaconry of Brecon, is almost entirely rural, sparsely populated, and overwhelmingly dependent upon agriculture. |
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| Each diocese of the established church had a consistorial or diocesan court, and in Dublin, superior to these, was the Prerogative Court of Armagh. |
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| The Carlisle diocese has started its search for a part-time vicar to fill some of the duties of the Reverend Harry Brown at one of two small parishes near Kendal. |
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| The diocese was further reduced in 1846, when the counties of Essex and Hertfordshire were ceded to the Diocese of Rochester. |
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| The diocese was divided into the archdeaconries of Durham and Northumberland. |
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| The current bishop, Michael Ipgrave, is the 99th since the diocese was established. |
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| If the cathedral is that of a suffragan diocese, it yields precedence to the cathedral of the metropolitan see. |
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| Niedergeses told me that he got a list of all of the confirmands in the diocese and sent each one an individual letter. |
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| It is the seat of the Bishop of Llandaff, whose diocese within the Church in Wales covers the most populous area of South Wales. |
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| A bishop's compensation is generally paid for by his diocese, according to Zech. |
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| At The Anglican, the newspaper of the diocese of Toronto, McKellar wrote a choral music column and was a volunteer proofreader for 16 years. |
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| As an emblem of the seemingly limitless scale of human suffering, Tshumbe could stand for any diocese in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. |
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| Coadjutor Bishop John Tong is expected to succeed Zen in the Hong Kong diocese. |
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| In 2003 the Holy See appointed the current coadjutor bishop for the Macau diocese. |
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| He was remembered as a good shepherd to the people of Saginaw diocese, a comforter of priests and a challenge to fellow bishops. |
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| Recently the Vatican announced the offer of a personal prelature, a sort of nonterritorial diocese, to reincorporate the traditionalists. |
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| By 1939, forty-four parishes and convents in the Pittsburgh diocese offered weekly novenas of their own. |
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| But most prefer the corporation sole model whereby the ordinary holds legal title to all assets in the diocese. |
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| Thus a colonial bishop and colonial diocese was by nature quite a different thing from their counterparts back home. |
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| Their king, Saeberht, was converted early and a diocese was established at London. |
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| Heraclianus was still in command in the diocese of Africa, the last of the clique that overthrew Stilicho to retain power. |
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| Most ordained ministers in the Anglican Communion are priests, who usually work in parishes within a diocese. |
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| The resulting property law case, ultimately decided in favor of the mainline diocese, was a test for Episcopal churches nationwide. |
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| The next diocese formed was Manchester and its Borough Council began informally to use the title city. |
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| The diocese of Ely was created in 1108 out of the see of Lincoln, and a year later the bishopric of Ely was founded. |
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| Ely is the nearest cathedral city to Cambridge, which lies within the same diocese. |
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| The title has also been claimed for Saint Petroc who was patron of the Cornish diocese prior to the Normans. |
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| Asaph until the disestablishment of the Church in Wales in 1920, when they were ceded to the Lichfield diocese. |
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| The seat of the bishopric was established in the city and all churches belonged to the diocese, staffed by the bishop's clergy. |
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| The Pope is ex officio head of state of Vatican City, functions dependent on his primordial function as bishop of the diocese of Rome. |
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| It is unclear where his diocese was located, although he was considered to be Alhfrith's bishop. |
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| Wilfrid not only lost his diocese, he lost control of his monasteries as well. |
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| Theodore set up new bishoprics from Wilfrid's diocese, with seats at York, Hexham, Lindisfarne, and one in the region of Lindsey. |
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| The Northumbrian diocese was divided and a number of new episcopal sees created. |
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| The castle was first erected around 1200 as the residence, prison and fortress of the bishops of the diocese. |
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| An added text suggests this was in the diocese of Hereford in the 11th century. |
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| The Diocese of Exeter remains the Anglican diocese including the whole of Devon. |
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| The remainder, Cumbria, northern Northumbria, Lothian and much of the Kingdom of Strathclyde formed the diocese of Lindisfarne. |
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| From 1955 it has been the see of the bishop of Rotterdam when the Rotterdam diocese was split from the Haarlem diocese. |
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| Le Havre is the capital of the canton and since 1974 has been the see of the diocese of Le Havre. |
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| The name Cornouaille signifies the diocese of Quimper which persisted until the French Revolution. |
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| The Orthodox also state that the Bishop of Rome has authority only over his own diocese and does not have any authority outside his diocese. |
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| In the late 4th century there was a deep conflict in the diocese of Milan between the Nicene Church and Arians. |
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| The foundation of Constance is obscure, though it was the largest diocese in Germany throughout the Merovingian and early Carolingian era. |
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| The log church was consecrated as Saint Boniface Cathedral after Provencher was himself consecrated as a bishop and the diocese was formed. |
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| The revised Easter computation that had been part of the original 1923 agreement was never permanently implemented in any Orthodox diocese. |
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| Within the diocese of Constance, Bernhardin Sanson was offering a special indulgence for contributors to the building of St Peter's in Rome. |
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| Even before the publication of this treatise, the diocese of Constance reacted by sending a delegation to Zurich. |
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| Zwingli wrote an official response for the council and the result was the severance of all ties between the city and the diocese. |
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| The Church of All Saints in Halifax was made the cathedral of the Nova Scotian diocese in 1910 and remains as such to date. |
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| Within the provinces are 29 dioceses and one grouping of churches in British Columbia that functions equivalently to a diocese. |
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| Established in 1785, the diocese was one of the nine original dioceses of the Episcopal Church. |
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| The middle judicatory consists of a diocese headed by a bishop who is assisted by a standing committee. |
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| The Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe and the Navajoland Area Mission are jurisdictions similar to a diocese. |
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| Diocesan synods are convened by a bishop in his or her diocese, and consist of elected clergy and lay members. |
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| Prior to 1970, however, the metropolitan of the Province of Rupert's Land was always the bishop of the eponymous diocese, centred on Winnipeg. |
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| The National Lay Council is composed of the men, women and youth delegates of every diocese represented in the General Assembly. |
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| In 2014, the Episcopal Church of Costa Rica, a diocese of the province, took steps toward welcoming the LGBTQ community. |
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| In April 2016, the diocesan synod voted to dissolve the diocese due to its small size and merge with ACNA's Missionary Diocese of All Saints. |
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| For priests and deacons, initial trial is held by an ecclesiastical court established by the diocese in which the cleric is canonically resident. |
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| The cappa magna may be worn, but only within the bishop's own diocese and on especially solemn occasions. |
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| Within his own diocese and when celebrating solemnly elsewhere with the consent of the local ordinary, he also uses the crosier. |
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| By Divine law the pope has such ordinary jurisdiction for the entire Church and a bishop for his diocese. |
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| The diocese is one of the oldest in England and its bishop is a member of the House of Lords. |
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| As holder of this office, the bishop was both the earl of the county and bishop of the diocese. |
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| The Channel Islands have not been transferred to and incorporated within another diocese. |
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| In 1859 James Quinn was appointed Bishop of Brisbane, Brisbane becoming a diocese, and Pugin's small church became a cathedral. |
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| It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Furness, the archdeaconry of Westmorland and Furness, and the diocese of Carlisle. |
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| After Wakefield was elevated to diocese in 1888, Wakefield Council sought city status which was granted the same year. |
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| The town gained the status of a city when its diocese was formed in 1133, and the priory became Carlisle Cathedral. |
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| A priest is under the direction of the bishop and abides by the regulations of the diocese. |
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| Rochester was then the poorest diocese in England and usually seen as a first step on an ecclesiastical career. |
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| He also played a part in the organisation of diocese on lines closer to those in the rest of Western Europe. |
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| In the sixth century, they were already included in the diocese of Coutances where they remained until reformation. |
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| The second largest denomination is the Methodist Church, whose Isle of Man District is close in numbers to the Anglican diocese. |
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| By the 1120s, work also began on building a proper cathedral for the diocese. |
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| Allying himself with the pious king, Aidan chose the island of Lindisfarne, which was close to the royal castle at Bamburgh, as the seat of his diocese. |
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| Bishop Juan de Palafox asserted the income from the diocese of Puebla as being twice that of the archbishopic of Mexico, due to the tithe income derived from agriculture. |
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| Although he has been a priest in the diocese for 17 years, his work has been concentrated at churches on Cape Breton Island and in the Halifax area, he noted. |
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| To compensate the Western court for the loss of Gaul, Hispania, and Britannia, Theodosius ceded the diocese of Dacia and the diocese of Macedonia to their control. |
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| Forgive my ignorance, but such a combination seems so oxymoronic that it is hard to believe that any bishop would allow such a thing in his diocese. |
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| Vera was previously coadjutor bishop in the diocese of San Cristobal de las Casas, which at that time was under the direction of Bishop Samuel Ruiz. |
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| The diocese is responsible for overseeing 15 congregations in Dundee and 37 in the surrounding area, including St Mary, Our Lady of Victories Church in the city. |
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| Originally sent to convert the Slavs of Great Moravia, Cyril and Methodius were forced to compete with Frankish missionaries from the Roman diocese. |
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| Monmouth was created from one of the archdeaconries of Llandaff diocese. |
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| In practice, diocesan assistant bishops have only been appointed within the diocese of the archbishop, in order to assist him with diocesan episcopal functions. |
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| The Church of Ireland diocese of Connor's arms, granted in 1945, include Saint Patrick's Saltire in memory of his supposed enslavement at Slemish. |
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| Some of the monasteries in his diocese were put under his protection by their abbots or abbesses, who were seeking someone to help protect their endowments. |
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| However his diocese was very large, and Theodore wished to reform the English Church, a process which included breaking up some of the larger dioceses into smaller ones. |
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| It includes the county of Cambridgeshire, except for much of Peterborough, and three parishes in the south which are in the diocese of Chelmsford. |
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| In one new diocese, Southwell, a city was not created, because it was a village without a borough corporation and therefore could not petition the Queen. |
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| It also provided on-camera interviews, commentaries and analysis of daily proceedings by 22-year-old Tim Morgan from the diocese of Rupert's Land. |
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| Though Virginia law allows parishioners to determine their church's affiliation, the diocese claimed the secessionist churches' buildings and properties. |
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| Later ecclesiastical synods require that letters under the bishop's seal should be given to priests when for some reason they lawfully quit their own proper diocese. |
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| The most usual term for the geographic area of a bishop's authority and ministry, the diocese, began as part of the structure of the Roman Empire under Diocletian. |
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| Built in 1857 at the height of the Gothic Revival, the cathedral was home to the Bishop of Menevia from 1898 until 1987, whose diocese covered all of Wales. |
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| The dispute centres on how far the Church of England should accommodate traditionalist parishes who object to the appointment of a woman bishop in their diocese. |
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| Parts of the historic county of Devon formed part of the diocese of Wessex, while nothing is known of the church organisation of the Celtic areas. |
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| In 2013, the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti was the largest single diocese, with 84,301 baptized members, which constitute slightly over half of the church's foreign membership. |
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| When Diocletian redivided the Empire, Crete was placed, along with Cyrene, under the diocese of Moesia, and later by Constantine I to the diocese of Macedonia. |
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| An archdeacon is a priest or deacon responsible for administration of an archdeaconry, which is often the name given to the principal subdivisions of a diocese. |
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| The Bishop of Sodor and Man, whose diocese lies outside of the United Kingdom, is an ex officio member of the Legislative Council of the Isle of Man. |
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| The Church of England diocese of Wakefield covered parishes mainly in West Yorkshire, parts of South Yorkshire and five parishes in North Yorkshire. |
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| A bishop may also call a sobor for his diocese, which again would have delegates from the clergy, monasteries and parishes of his diocese, to discuss important matters. |
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| He is responsible for teaching, governing, and sanctifying the faithful of his diocese, sharing these duties with the priests and deacons who serve under him. |
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| Thanksgiving services in the diocese of London were held at the end of April after false rumours that Mary had given birth to a son spread across Europe. |
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| The orders' provinces are usually far larger than a diocese, a secular province, or even a country, though sometimes they are smaller in an institute's heartland. |
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| One of Gregory the Great's letters show that the diocese was incorporated into that of Reggio Calabria in September 595, but by 602 it was again under its own bishop. |
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| Under canon law a diocese and a province have geographical boundaries and no other diocese or province can exercise jurisdiction within those boundaries. |
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| In the Latin Church, an ecclesiastical province, composed of several neighbouring dioceses, is headed by a metropolitan, the archbishop of the diocese designated by the Pope. |
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| Bishops are typically overseers, presiding over a diocese composed of many parishes, with an archbishop presiding over a province, which is a group of dioceses. |
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| Under the Portuguese domination, there was a Bishop of Tangier who was a suffragan of the diocese of Lisbon but in 1570 the diocese was united to the diocese of Ceuta. |
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| The Isle of Man has its own diocese of Sodor and Man, and the Bishop of Sodor and Man is an ex officio member of the Legislative Council of the Tynwald on the island. |
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| Clergy officiate in a diocese either because they hold office as beneficed clergy or are licensed by the bishop when appointed, or simply with permission. |
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