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Blessed Sacrament - Cardiff (Caerdydd), UK
A warm and welcoming Parish in the Cardiff (Caerdydd) Diocese.
Parish
Blessed Sacrament School - London, UK
Primary School and Nursery
Organisation
Boarding and Day School for Girls, UK
Organisation in the Diocese of East Anglia
Organisation
Bognor War Memorial Hospital - Bognor Regis
Organisation in the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton
Chaplaincy > Hospital
Bolton University Chaplaincy - Bolton, UK
Bolton University Chaplaincy in (Diocese of Salford).
Chaplaincy > University >
Bootle
Pastoral Area Number 7 in the Archdiocese of Liverpool.
Deanery
Bosco Catholic Education Trust
Organisation in the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton
Academy Trust
Bosham - Bosham
see CHICHESTER
Parish Redirection
Botwell House, HAYES - Hayes, UK
Primary
Organisation
Bournemouth
The Pastoral Area of Bournemouth in the Portsmouth Diocese.
Pastoral Area
Bournemouth Head Teachers Cluster Group
Head Teachers Cluster Group
Diocese > Department > Education/Schools > Heads Cluster Group
Bradford North
Deanery in the Diocese of Leeds
Deanery
Bradford South
Deanery in the Diocese of Leeds
Deanery
Bramley - Bramley
see CRANLEIGH
Parish Redirection
Brent
Deanery in the Archdiocese of Westminster
Deanery
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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
