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Diocese of Clifton - Clifton, UK
Clifton Diocese is the Catholic diocese covering the West of England and includes the City and County of Bristol, the counties of Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire and Bath and North East Somerset.
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Diocese of Corpus Christi, USA
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Diocese of Dunkeld - Dundee
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Diocese of East Anglia - Poringland, UK
Catholic Diocese of Anglia, covering the east of England. Our Diocesan mission is to respond to Christ’s call to proclaim the gospel.
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Diocese of Galloway - Galloway
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Diocese of Georgetown - Georgetown, Guyana
Guyana is a huge country of 83,000 square miles and a population of 756,000 people.
It became independent on May 26, 1966 and a Republic on February 23, 1970.
It is situated in North East. South America.
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Diocese of Hallam - Sheffield, UK
Catholic Diocese of Hallam in England
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Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle - 800 West Road, UK
Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle
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Diocese of Lancaster - Lancaster, UK
The Catholic Church in Lancashire, England, north of the Ribble, and all of Cumbria.
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Diocese of Leeds - Leeds, UK
Catholic Diocese of Leeds in England
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Diocese of Limerick - Limerick, Ireland
Diocese of Limerick
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Diocese of Menevia - Swansea, UK
Catholic Diocese of Menevia, in Wales, UK
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Diocese of Middlesbrough - Middlesbrough, UK
Roman Catholic Diocese of Middlesbrough
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Diocese of Motherwell - Motherwell
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Diocese of Northampton - Northampton, UK
The Diocese of Northampton covers Bedfordshire, the old county of Buckinghamshire including the Slough area, and Northamptonshire.
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Useful Definitions of the Structures in the Catholic Church
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).
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).
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).
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
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
