Neither book examines in any detail how well or poorly bishops performed their episcopal duties in their dioceses. |
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Two or three of the metropolitan dioceses offer welcomed exceptions to this general rule. |
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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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It is a trust and trustfulness which in the dioceses on the whole works well. |
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In many dioceses, including my own, the bishop also appoints a priest to provide the sacramental ministry critical to parish life. |
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Some dioceses make a contribution towards a priest's expenses of running a car and paying household bills. |
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The organizational structure of parishes and dioceses is not a divine formula. |
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And the Church, meanwhile, divided up the kingdom in its own way, into 18 archiepiscopal provinces and 136 dioceses. |
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This new Bulgarian Church embraced eight dioceses, Tirnovo being the primatial see, but the union with Rome was not of long duration. |
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That's one reason that there has been a spontaneous burst of energy in dioceses whose bishops are retiring. |
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Twenty-six dioceses each had a consistory court with defamation cases providing about one quarter of their business. |
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Indeed, dioceses, parishes, and individuals should be more free to follow their consciences. |
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Parishes and dioceses have been asked to study the issues involved and to listen respectfully to the views of others. |
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Over the last ten years I think they've been very well received in dioceses that have started to ordain women to the priesthood. |
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The bishops are finalising the draft of a pastoral letter which will be read at masses in all 26 dioceses next weekend. |
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He called on the citizens of his two dioceses to declare their support for Mary. |
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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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Bishops' activities were confined to their own dioceses and monasteries exempted from episcopal interference. |
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Of the 195 U.S. dioceses and eparchies, 194 took part in the audit and 181 participated in the survey. |
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And in many Korean dioceses the cinerarium has started to edge out traditional cemeteries. |
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Nothing has been said about what would become of parishes, clergy, or dioceses in a church which walks apart. |
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As in many other dioceses, there is no structured prison ministry at the diocesan level. |
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They could hold visitations of all the dioceses in the province and exercise spiritual oversight of any vacant see. |
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A number of Church of England dioceses have organised peace vigils to coincide with the demonstration. |
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The American Church is the wealthiest of all 38 Anglican provinces, and dioceses such as Liberia are almost entirely dependent on its support. |
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Seats went to archbishops and bishops of the province's twenty-three dioceses, owners of twenty-three baronies, and sixty-eight deputies of the Third Estate. |
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Two parish priests in the dioceses of Lincoln and Southwark even provided dates for the ceremonies, which they agreed could take place in their own churches. |
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Congregations in two Yorkshire dioceses have turned out to be among the most generous in the country when it comes to putting money on the plate at Anglican churches. |
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Detroit was one of the first dioceses to close parishes on a large scale. |
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For him, conciliarism was essentially a teaching about the shared responsibility of the whole episcopate, whether gathered in council or scattered in the dioceses. |
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Secondly, the pope was head of all the bishops of the Western dioceses, including those of Africa, with regard to questions of discipline and faith. |
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The seven new shared schools are to be built in the ecclesiastical province of Glasgow, which comprises the three dioceses of Glasgow, Motherwell and Paisley. |
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It is clear, however, that dioceses which are still administered by prefects or vicars apostolic are held to have been uninterrupted by the Reformation. |
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Schuckardt is wearing the mozetta, which is worn by the Pope and Cardinals everywhere, and by Archbishops and Bishops in their dioceses with a few exceptions. |
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Four dioceses have declared independence from TEC and claimed membership in the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone. |
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For example, Metropolitan of Oltenia has regional jurisdiction over four local dioceses. |
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The metropolitan's powers over dioceses other than his own are normally limited to. |
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Although the pope was notified of all proceedings, the Holy See still regarded these dioceses as vacant due to papal permission not being sought. |
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The Church has 40 dioceses, including the Diocese of the Eastern and Western United States and Canada. |
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He also said the issue could be discussed at the local level in parishes and dioceses. |
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More celebrations of holidays and similar events raised a need to have these events followed closely throughout the dioceses. |
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The constitution made provision for the creation of dioceses, each to be under the oversight of a bishop. |
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There were now black churches with black clergy and officiates seeking inclusion into various denominations and dioceses. |
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While only a few dioceses ordain women to the priesthood, there are more that ordain women to the diaconate. |
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The dioceses of many Orthodox denominations, such as the Russian Orthodox Church, have their own ecclesiastical courts. |
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It convenes once a year, and consists of 85 representatives, of whom seven or eight are sent from each of the dioceses. |
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General Synod 2010 did not approve the so-called local option that would allow dioceses to grant same-sex blessings. |
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This means that the church is organized into dioceses led by bishops in consultation with representative bodies. |
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Thus they formed their own dioceses and national church, the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, in a mostly amicable separation. |
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The governing structure of the church is based on dioceses, each presided over by a bishop. |
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Different individuals, groups, parishes, dioceses and provinces may identify more closely with one or the other, or some mixture of the two. |
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All provinces of the Anglican Communion consist of dioceses, each under the jurisdiction of a bishop. |
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Deacons, in some dioceses, can be granted licences to solemnise matrimony, usually under the instruction of their parish priest and bishop. |
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The Norman invasion of Wales finally brought Welsh dioceses under England's control. |
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The Ambrosian Rite is celebrated in most of the Archdiocese of Milan, Italy and in parts of some neighbouring dioceses in Italy and Switzerland. |
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Among the council's resolutions was one postponing a decision on the creation of new dioceses, which affected Wilfrid later. |
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Theodore took advantage of the situation to implement decrees of some councils on dividing up large dioceses. |
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Wilfrid was, however, given the right to replace any bishop in the new dioceses to whom he objected. |
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The Church of England comprises 42 dioceses, each led by a diocesan bishop. |
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In the 19th century the dioceses of the Church of England began gradually to come under review again. |
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The untidy system of thirteen medieval dioceses was to be replaced by ten more rational districts, each to be overseen by a superintendent. |
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Eight years after, in 569, king Theodemir called the First Council of Lugo, in order to increase the number of dioceses within his kingdom. |
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The Roman dioceses of Strasbourg and Basel covered Alsace and that of Chur, as mentioned, Rhaetia. |
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The clashes were brought to an end by sharing authority over the Corsican dioceses between the two cities. |
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It made recommendations concerning personnel for the administrative, fiscal, and military, as well as bishops of overseas dioceses. |
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The five dioceses of Galicia are divided among 163 districts and 3,792 parishes. |
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The nature of the liturgy varies according to the theological tradition of the priests, parishes, dioceses and regional churches. |
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The General Synod meets triennially and consists of lay people, clergy, and bishops from each of the 29 dioceses. |
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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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Both dioceses and provinces hold synods, usually annually, consisting of the active diocesan clergy and lay delegates elected by parish churches. |
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At the same time, there was still tolerance for those dioceses who opposed women's ordination. |
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Following the departures of their conservative majorities, all three dioceses now ordain women. |
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Gene Robinson, some members of a number of congregations and six dioceses left the Episcopal Church. |
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Established in 1785, the diocese was one of the nine original dioceses of the Episcopal Church. |
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It is a unitary body, in that the power of the General Convention is not limited by the individual dioceses. |
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Each province has a synod and a mission budget, but it has no authority over its member dioceses. |
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Bishops may determine whether churches and priests within their dioceses are permitted to use the new liturgies. |
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Still, no Episcopal priest is required to perform the new liturgies, even in dioceses in which they are permitted. |
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Churches with an episcopal polity are governed by bishops, practicing their authorities in the dioceses and conferences or synods. |
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The former dioceses in the now defunct Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui had their own Book of Common Prayer. |
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In the past, in numerous national churches and dioceses, those entering Holy Orders had to make an oath of subscription to the Articles. |
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You're going to see, you've already seen, a lot of poor-mouth talk by dioceses. |
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The split came about after Gabriel Roric Jur, bishop of Rumbek in south Sudan, refused to obey a church order that bishops must live in their dioceses. |
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Also, a new endowment was set up in June that will benefit the 11 Council of the North dioceses such as the Arctic that are large in land mass but sparsely populated. |
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In 1974, the Archbishop of Canterbury gave over his metropolitical authority for the dioceses of the Southern Cone and in 1981, the new province was formed. |
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The cuts will affect local archivists working in communities and dioceses. |
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The rotation was changed by the Church Temporalities Act of 1833, which merged many dioceses and degraded the archbishoprics of Tuam and Cashel to bishoprics. |
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At the time of the Norman invasion York had jurisdiction over Worcester, Lichfield, and Lincoln, as well as the dioceses in the Northern Isles and Scotland. |
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After his promotion to emperor, Constantine remained in Britain, driving back the tribes of the Picts and secured his control in the northwestern dioceses. |
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The next court in the hierarchy is the bishop's court, which is in the Diocese of Canterbury called the Commissary Court and in other dioceses the consistory court. |
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During the process of ratifying the new church's constitution, disputes developed which split its dioceses into two American churches and a separate Canadian church. |
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There are twenty churches in England, divided between the two dioceses. |
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After the archbishop offered his support for the civil policy, some bishops and dioceses developed legislation to alter the official position of the Church in Wales. |
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The nature of the Anglican Communion is such that not all churches or dioceses must agree on all issues in order to share a common faith and baptism. |
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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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The conventions of four dioceses of the Episcopal Church voted in 2007 and 2008 to leave that church and to join the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone of America. |
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Without such authorization and review, episcopal conferences are deliberative only and exercise no authority over their member bishops or dioceses. |
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There are 110 dioceses in the United States, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Honduras, Puerto Rico, Taiwan, Venezuela and the Virgin Islands. |
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By May 16, 1866, the southern dioceses had rejoined the national church. |
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In a letter to the House of Bishops during summer 2009, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori instructed local dioceses not to sell parish property to departing groups. |
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This time, however, the lay people of Zurich, the dioceses of Chur and Basel, the University of Basel, and the twelve members of the Confederation were also invited. |
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The reform was especially unpopular with the old church hierarchy, as the new dioceses were to be financed by the transfer of a number of rich abbeys. |
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The ordinary of such an archdiocese is an archbishop, however, especially in the Anglican Communion, not all archbishops' dioceses are called archdioceses. |
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In some cases, such a see is the only one in a country, such as Luxembourg or Monaco, too small to be divided into several dioceses so as to form an ecclesiastical province. |
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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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These two dioceses ensured that every village had a parish church. |
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The Bishop of Sodor and Man and the Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe may not sit in the House of Lords regardless of seniority as their dioceses lie outside the United Kingdom. |
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Under his see, the dioceses are further headed by Diocesan Metropolitans. |
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By the early 6th century the church had developed separate dioceses, with bishops as the most senior ecclesiastical figures, but the country was still predominantly pagan. |
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Another ruling confirmed that the Roman calculation for the date of Easter should be adopted, and that bishops should act only in their own dioceses. |
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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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Gregory intended for Augustine to become the metropolitan bishop over all of southern Britain, including the existing dioceses under Welsh and Cornish control. |
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New dioceses were established at Bristol, Gloucester, Oxford, Peterborough, Westminster and Chester, but not, for instance, at Shrewsbury, Leicester or Waltham. |
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The Bishop of Sodor and Man and the Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe are not eligible to sit in the House of Lords as their dioceses lie outside the United Kingdom. |
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They convert the commoners and flamens, turn pagan temples into churches, and establish dioceses and archdioceses where the flamens had previously held power. |
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Selva Raj, leader of the Karnataka Kannada Priests Association that led the protest, noted that only one among the state's eight dioceses has a bishop who is not Mangalorean. |
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