St James the Less and St Helen Catholic Church

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Bishops` Conference of England and Wales (Cymru) Diocese of Brentwood

Deanery: Colchester

Churches

St James The Less And St Helen Church
51 Priory Street, Colchester, Essex, CO1 2QBLSWAW

Also Serving

St Joseph - Colchester
St Joseph Church, Mill Road, Colchester, Essex, CO4 5LD
St Cedd And St Gregory - Colchester
St Cedd And St Gregory Church, Barfield Road, Colchester, Essex, CO5 8QT
St Theodore Of Canterbury - Colchester
St Theodore Of Canterbury Church, Prince Philip Road, Colchester, Essex, CO2 8NX

Catholic Priests and People

Rev Anthony McKentey - Parish Priest
Rev Brett Adams - Priest
Rev Philip Willenbrock - Priest

Contact

Correspondence AddressSt James The Less And St Helen Presbytery
51 Priory Street
Colchester
Essex
CO1 2QB
Phone 01206 866317
Click here to email St James the Less and St Helen Catholic Church
External Link to St James the Less and St Helen Catholic Church`s Website: www.stjamesthelessandsthelen.orgwww.stjamesthelessandsthelen.org

Nearest Catholic Schools

St Thomas More`s, COLCHESTER (0 miles)

Nearest Catholic Parishes/Churches

St John Payne, Colchester (1.2 miles)
St Theodore Of Canterbury, Colchester (1.7 miles)
St Teresa Of Lisieux and St John the Baptist, Colchester (1.9 miles)
St Joseph, Colchester (2.3 miles)
St Teresa Of Lisieux and St John the Baptist, Colchester (2.7 miles)

Nearest Schools and Churches are calculated `as the crow flies` and may not be the closest or easiest when travelling.

Catholic Groups/Organisations/Religious Orders

Mercy Sisters (the Institute) (brentwood) - Religious House
Canonesses Of The Holy Sepulchre (crss) - Religious House

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About St James the Less and St Helen Catholic Church

Parish of St James The Less And St Helen in Colchester, Essex (Diocese of Brentwood)

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Dates: 1837

Useful Definitions of the Structures in the Catholic Church

What is a Catholic Bishops' Conference?

An episcopal conference, sometimes called a conference of bishops, is an official assembly of the bishops of the Catholic Church in a given territory. ... Individual bishops do not relinquish their immediate authority for the governance of their respective dioceses to the conference (Wikipedia).

What is an Archdiocese?

Dioceses ruled by an archbishop are commonly referred to as archdioceses; most are metropolitan sees, being placed at the head of an ecclesiastical province. A few are suffragans of a metropolitan see or are directly subject to the Holy See.

The term 'archdiocese' is not found in Canon Law, with the terms "diocese" and "episcopal see" being applicable to the area under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of any bishop.[8] If the title of archbishop is granted on personal grounds to a diocesan bishop, his diocese does not thereby become an archdiocese (Wikipedia).

What is a Diocese?

The group of churches that a bishop supervises is known as a diocese. Typically, a diocese is divided into parishes that are each overseen by a priest.

The original dioceses, in ancient Rome, were political rather than religious. Rome was divided into dioceses, each of which was made up of many provinces. After Christianity became the Roman Empire's official religion in the 4th century, the term gradually came to refer to religious districts. The Catholic Church has almost 3,000 dioceses. The Greek root of diocese is dioikesis, "government, administration, or province." (Vocabulary.com).

As of April 2020, in the Catholic Church there are 2,898 regular dioceses: 1 papal see, 649 archdioceses (including 9 patriarchates, 4 major archdioceses, 560 metropolitan archdioceses, 76 single archdioceses) (Wikipedia).

What is the difference between a Diocese and an Archdiocese?

Each diocese is within a Province - a group of Dioceses - the Archdiocese is the main Diocese within that Diocese. The bishop of that Archdiocese is therefore automatically an Archbishop. If a bishop has been made an Archbishop personally is referred to as an Archbishop but it does not make their Diocese an Archdiocese.

What is a Deanery?

A subdivision of a diocese, consisting of a number parishes, over which presides a dean appointed by a bishop. The duty of the dean is to watch over the clergy of the deanery, to see that they fulfill the orders of the bishop, and observe the liturgical and canon laws. He summons the conference of the deanery and presides at it. Periodically he makes a report to the bishop on conditions in the deanery.www.catholicculture.org

What is a Parish?

In the Roman Catholic Church, a parish (Latin: parochia) is a stable community of the faithful within a particular church, whose pastoral care has been entrusted to a parish priest (Latin: parochus), under the authority of the diocesan bishop. It is the lowest ecclesiastical subdivision in the Catholic episcopal polity, and the primary constituent unit of a diocese. In the 1983 Code of Canon Law, parishes are constituted under cc. 515–552, entitled "Parishes, Pastors, and Parochial Vicars." Wikipedia