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Ecclesiastical Region
An ecclesiastical region () is a formally organised geographical group of dioceses, ecclesiastical provinces or parishes, without a proper Ordinary as such, in Catholic or Protestant Churches. Catholic Church Apart from historical other uses, there are presently ecclesiastical regions, grouping parts of the extensive episcopate in five Catholic countries. The equivalent 'apostolic regions' in France, created in 1961, were suppressed in 2004. Italy The Catholic Church in Italy is divided into 16 ecclesiastical regions. The regions mostly correspond to the 20 civil administrative regions of Italy. #Abruzzo-Molise (joining those two administrative regions) #Basilicata #Calabria #Campania #Emilia-Romagna #Lazio = Latium #Liguria #Lombardy (Lombardia) #Marche(s) #Piemonte (Piedmont), including Valle d'Aosta #Puglia (Apulia) #Sardinia (Sardegna) #Sicily (Sicilia) #Tuscany (Toscana) #Triveneto (i.e. Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Trentino-Alto Adige) #Umbria. Braz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diocese
In Ecclesiastical polity, church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided Roman province, provinces were administratively associated in a larger unit, the Roman diocese, diocese (Latin ''dioecesis'', from the Greek language, Greek term διοίκησις, meaning "administration"). Christianity was given legal status in 313 with the Edict of Milan. Churches began to organize themselves into Roman diocese, dioceses based on the Roman diocese, civil dioceses, not on the larger regional imperial districts. These dioceses were often smaller than the Roman province, provinces. Christianity was declared the Empire's State church of the Roman Empire, official religion by Theodosius I in 380. Constantine the Great, Constantine I in 318 gave litigants the right to have court cases transferred from the civil courts to the bishops. This situa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Worcester
The Diocese of Worcester ()is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, of the Catholic Church in central Massachusetts in the United States. The diocese consists of Worcester County. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Boston. The patron saint of the diocese is Paul the Apostle. The mother church of the Diocese of Worcester is the Cathedral of Saint Paul in the city of Worcester. The fifth and current bishop is Robert McManus. History 1700 to 1808 Before the American Revolution, the British Province of Massachusetts Bay, which included the Worcester area, had enacted laws prohibiting the practice of Catholicism in the colony. It was even illegal for a priest to reside there. To gain the support of Catholics for the Revolution, colonial leaders were forced to make concessions to them. Massachusetts enacted religious freedom for Catholics in 1780. After the Revolution ended in 1783, Pope Pius VI want to remo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Ogdensburg
The Diocese of Ogdensburg () is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, of the Catholic Church in the North Country region of New York (state), New York State in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, Archdiocese of New York. Its cathedral is St. Mary's in Ogdensburg, New York, Ogdensburg. The Diocese of Ogdensburg was founded on February 16, 1872. It comprises the entirety of Clinton County, New York, Clinton, Essex County, New York, Essex, Lewis County, New York, Lewis, Hamilton County, New York, Hamilton and St. Lawrence County, New York, St. Lawrence counties and the northern portion of Herkimer County, New York, Herkimer county. The bishop is Terry R. LaValley, Terry Ronald LaValley. History 1600 to 1777 The North Country of New York was inhabited by the Iroquois/Haudenosaunee Native Americans when the first French, Dutch, and English fur-traders arrived in the 1600s. The few Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Buffalo
The Diocese of Buffalo () is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Western New York in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese within the metropolitan province of the Archdiocese of New York. The Diocese of Buffalo includes eight counties in New York State. It was erected in 1847. The mother church of the diocese is St. Joseph Cathedral in Buffalo. Since December 2020, Michael Fisher has served as the bishop of Buffalo. Range and population The Diocese of Buffalo covers . As of 2018, the diocese has a Catholic population of 725,125. The diocese had 161 parishes, 15 high schools, 52 elementary schools, seven colleges and universities, one seminary and four hospitals. History 1600 to 1800 In 1678, Louis Hennepin, accompanying French explorer René-Robert La Salle, celebrated the first mass in present day Buffalo. During the British rule of the Province of New York in the 18th century, Catholics were banned from the colony. Richard Coote, the first coloni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Brooklyn
The Diocese of Brooklyn () is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, of the Catholic Church in the U.S. state, State of New York (state), New York. It is headquartered in Brooklyn and its territory encompasses the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, contiguous with Kings County, NY, Kings County and Queens County, NY, Queens County respectively. The Diocese of Brooklyn is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolis (religious jurisdiction), metropolitan Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, Archdiocese of New York. The diocesan cathedral is the Cathedral Basilica of St. James (Brooklyn), Cathedral Basilica of St. James in Downtown Brooklyn and its co-cathedral is the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph (Brooklyn), Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph in Prospect Heights. Brooklyn is one of the few dioceses in the United States that is made up of 100% urban territory.Coen, Joseph W.; McNamara, Patrick, J.; Vaccari, Peter I. ''Diocese of Immigrants: T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Albany
The Diocese of Albany () is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory in eastern New York in the United States. Its mother church is the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Albany. The Diocese of Albany is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of New York. As of 2024, the bishop of Albany is Edward Scharfenberger. Territory The Diocese of Albany covers the following counties: Albany, Columbia, Delaware, Fulton, Greene, southern Herkimer, Montgomery, Otsego, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Warren, and Washington. History 1600 to 1800 The first Catholic presence in the present-day diocese was that of French missionaries in the 1640s attempting to evangelize the Mohawk peoples of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederation). Three missionaries were killed by the Mohawks, one near present-day Auriesville in 1642 and two at Lake George in 1646. They were later declared martyrs of the Catholic Church. In 1676, Kateri Tekakwitha, a young Mohawk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Archdiocese Of New York
The Archdiocese of New York () is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church located in the State of New York. It encompasses the boroughs of Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island in New York City and the counties of Dutchess County, New York, Dutchess, Orange County, New York, Orange, Putnam County, New York, Putnam, Rockland County, New York, Rockland, Sullivan County, New York, Sullivan, Ulster County, New York, Ulster, and Westchester County, New York, Westchester to the north of the city. It does not include the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn or Queens, which form the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, Diocese of Brooklyn; however, the Diocese of Brooklyn is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of New York. The Archdiocese of New York is the second-largest diocese in the United States by population, encompassing 296 parishes that serve around 2.8 million Catholics, in addition to hundreds of Catholic schools, hospitals and chari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Providence
The Diocese of Providence () is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Rhode Island in the United States. The diocese was erected by Blessed Pope Pius IX on February 17, 1872. The Diocese of Providence is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Hartford. The Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul in Providence is the mother church of the diocese. Bishop Bruce Lewandowski is the bishop of the diocese. History 1643 to 1830 Unlike the other British colonies in North America, the colony of Providence Plantations was founded in 1643 on the basis of religious tolerance for all Christians. However, by 1719, the Rhode Island General Assembly had enacted a law disenfranchising Catholics from voting to discourage any from moving to the colony. During the American Revolution, a French army camped in Newport and Providence; the first Catholic masses in the colony were celebrated there for these soldiers. After the Revolution, the new State of Rhode Island allowed Catholics to vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Norwich
The Diocese of Norwich (Latin: ''Diœcesis Norvicensis'') is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, of the Catholic Church in the states of Connecticut and New York in the United States. It was erected on August 6, 1953, by Pope Pius XII. History 1600 to 1953 In the 17th and much of the 18th century, Puritan ministers in the British Province of Connecticut were vociferously anti-Catholic in their writings and preaching. They viewed the Catholic Church as a foreign political power and of Catholics as having loyalty only to the Vatican. After the American Revolution, the first permanent Catholic parish in the new state of Connecticut was founded in 1781 in Lebanon, Connecticut. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, Diocese of Boston was erected from the Diocese of Baltimore in 1808, taking all of the New England states under its jurisdiction. Priests from Massachusetts would periodically visit the scattered Catholic population in Connecticut. The construc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Bridgeport
The Diocese of Bridgeport () is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or diocese of the Catholic Church located in the southwestern part of the state of Connecticut in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Hartford. The Diocese of Bridgeport includes all of Fairfield County, Connecticut and has 82 parishes. Its cathedral is St. Augustine Cathedral in Bridgeport. As of 2023, the diocese is led by Bishop Frank Caggiano. Description The Diocese of Bridgeport is one of 195 dioceses in the United States. It is one of four dioceses in the Ecclesiastical Province of Hartford—the others are the Archdiocese of Hartford, the Diocese of Norwich and the Diocese of Providence. The largest church in the Diocese of Bridgeport is St. Mary's Church in Stamford, built in 1928. Sacred Heart Parish in Georgetown was the home parish for American writers Flannery O'Connor and Robert Fitzgerald from 1949 to 1952 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Archdiocese Of Hartford
The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Hartford () is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Connecticut in the United States. It is a metropolitan see. It was established as the Diocese of Hartford in 1843, when there were only 600 Catholic people in Hartford. In 1953, as the population of Catholics in the region was greatly increasing, it became the Archdiocese of Hartford. In the early 21st century, the archdiocese faced a sexual abuse scandal in which it has paid $50.6 million to settle 146 sexual abuse claims against 32 priests as of January 2019. The mother church of the Archdiocese of Hartford is the Cathedral of Saint Joseph in Hartford. It covers Hartford, Litchfield and New Haven counties. Christopher J. Coyne is the archbishop of Hartford as of May 1, 2024. The rector of the cathedral is the Very Rev. John Melnick. History 1780 to 1843 Between 1780 and 1781, just before the end of the American Revolution, the first Catholic mass in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York (state)
New York, also called New York State, is a U.S. state, state in the northeastern United States. Bordered by New England to the east, Canada to the north, and Pennsylvania and New Jersey to the south, its territory extends into both the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Lakes. New York is the List of U.S. states and territories by population, fourth-most populous state in the United States, with nearly 20 million residents, and the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 27th-largest state by area, with a total area of . New York has Geography of New York (state), a varied geography. The southeastern part of the state, known as Downstate New York, Downstate, encompasses New York City, the List of U.S. cities by population, most populous city in the United States; Long Island, with approximately 40% of the state's population, the nation's most populous island; and the cities, suburbs, and wealthy enclaves of the lower Hudson Valley. These areas are the center of the expansive New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
