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Churches together in Windsor CTW - Homeless Project - FoodShare - Street Angels
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Churches Together in WindsorThe CTW Homeless Project came into being in 2009 after a rough sleeper died one winter’s night outside Holy Trinity Church.It is a response to a local perceived need. Its purpose is:-to offer practical and emotional support and companionship to homeless and unsupported adults of Windsor, so that they shall feel cared for and be enabled to develop or re-discover a sense of self-worth, to preserve life.?HomelessCurrently the project offers a simple snack lunch to the homeless (registered via the police locally) on Mondays and Wednesdays at Windsor Baptist Church. It is staffed by volunteers from all the churches and none. Shower facilities are available and second-hand clothing.FoodshareThis began operation in October 2013 and is based at Dedworth Green Baptist Church, Smith Lane. This project is being run in partnership with all the Windsor churches to provide support for people urgently in need of food. Those in need will be referred by agencies such as the local authority, community wardens, church leaders, and others.Parish Contact: Hilary Richie e-mail:- hilliritchie@hotmail.comVisit the website:www.windsorfoodshare.org.uk or contact the Co-ordinator, Sarah Howard by email: sarah@windsorfoodshare.org.ukStreet AngelsSince February 2012, volunteer. Street Angels have been patrolling Windsor town centre between 10.30pm and 3am on Friday nights, offering care and a calming, non-threatening presence, helping to keep vulnerable people safe late at night. The scheme has been set up under the umbrella of Churches Together in Windsor with support from a number of organisations, as well as from individual donors. Now, responsibility for Street Angels has been passed to a new organisation called Windsor Christian Action (WCA), registered as a charity in October 2013. Parish Contact: Yvonne Conroy - e-mail: - ymconroy@aol.comFor more information, see the WCA website:-www.windsorchristianaction.wordpress.com. If you feel called to become a Street Angel, or Support Angel, please contact PCSO David Bullock, either by telephone on 07816 848231,?or by email: david.bullock@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk
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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
