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Roman Catholic Archdiocese Of Baghdad
The Archdiocese of Baghdad () is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Baghdad, Iraq."Archdiocese of Baghdad" ''GCatholic.org''. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016 ''Catholic-Hierarchy.org''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016 It has jurisdiction over three parishes of 2,500 Latin Church Catholics who live throughout Iraq. The diocese is immediately subject to the Holy See. It operates alongside seven Chaldean Catholic Church, Chaldean dioceses, three Syriac Catholic Church, Syrian Catholic, one Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Iraq, Greek-Melkite jurisdiction, and one Armenian Catholic Archeparchy of Bag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Rite
The Roman Rite () is the most common ritual family for performing the ecclesiastical services of the Latin Church, the largest of the ''sui iuris'' particular churches that comprise the Catholic Church. The Roman Rite governs Rite (Christianity), rites such as the Roman Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours as well as the manner in which Sacraments of the Catholic Church, sacraments and Blessing in the Catholic Church, blessings are performed. The Roman Rite developed in the Latin language in the city of Rome and, while distinct Latin liturgical rites such as the Ambrosian Rite remain, the Roman Rite has gradually been adopted almost everywhere in the Latin Church. In medieval times there were numerous local variants, even if all of them did not amount to distinct rites, yet uniformity increased as a result of the invention of printing and in obedience to the decrees of the Council of Trent of 1545–1563 (see ''Quo primum''). Several Latin liturgical rites which had survived into th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ankawa
Ankawa (; , ) is a suburb of Erbil in Kurdistan Region, Iraq. It is located northwest of downtown Erbil. The suburb is predominantly populated by Christian Assyrian, most of whom adhere to the Chaldean Catholic Church. History Ankawa was originally called Beth Amka, which later morphed to Amku-Bad, Ankava, and finally Ankawa. The name of the town is mentioned in Bar Hebraeus's book entitled "A Brief History of the Countries," where he states: "Mongol troops attacked the area of Erbil on Sunday July 1285 and reached some villages... including Ankawa." The shrine of Mary also known as Mariamana was built after the ancient Roman designs. Tell Qasra, or Qasra Knoll, is an ancient archaeological site, a 6 meter high mound that was used as a palace in the center of Ankawa. The hill dates back to the Neo-Assyrian period. The city was formerly known as Arbela which was the capital city of Adiabene and the seat of Inanna. Ankawa has many archaeological sites, including "The Hill, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Berré
François Dominique Berré, OP (13 September 1857 – 4 April 1929) was a French prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in Iraq as a missionary, bishop and apostolic delegate. Biography François Dominique Berré was born on 13 September 1857 in Saint-Méen-le-Grand, France. He was ordained a priest of the Order of Friars Preachers (Dominicans) on 20 August 1882. Transcription of obituary. As a Dominican his name was Father Marie Dominique. In 1884 he began his missionary work in Mosul where he taught at the seminary and became head of the mission. After being imprisoned in Turkey for four years during the First World War and deported to France, he returned to rebuild the mission and its orphanage. He also documented the massacre of Christians in Mardin in a report to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On 9 August 1921, Pope Benedict XV appointed him Archbishop of Baghdad. He received his episcopal consecration on 19 March 1922 from François Daoud, Bishop of the Chaldean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Désiré Jean Drure
François () is a French masculine given name and surname, equivalent to the English name Francis. People with the given name * François Amoudruz (1926–2020), French resistance fighter * François-Marie Arouet (better known as Voltaire; 1694–1778), French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher * François Beauchemin (born 1980), Canadian ice hockey player for the Anaheim Ducks * François Blanc (1806–1877), French entrepreneur and operator of casinos * François Bonlieu (1937–1973), French alpine skier * François Cevert (1944–1973), French racing driver * François Chau (born 1959), Cambodian American actor * François Clemmons (born 1945), American singer and actor * François Corbier (1944–2018), French television presenter and songwriter * François Coty (1874–1934), French perfumer * François Coulomb the Elder (1654–1717), French naval architect * François Coulomb the Younger (1691–1751), French naval architect * François Couperin (1668–173 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Order Of Preachers
The Order of Preachers (, abbreviated OP), commonly known as the Dominican Order, is a Catholic mendicant order of pontifical right that was founded in France by a Castilian priest named Dominic de Guzmán. It was approved by Pope Honorius III via the papal bull on 22 December 1216. Members of the order, who are referred to as Dominicans, generally display the letters ''OP'' after their names, standing for , meaning 'of the Order of Preachers'. Membership in the order includes friars, nuns, active sisters, and lay or secular Dominicans (formerly known as tertiaries). More recently, there have been a growing number of associates of the religious sisters who are unrelated to the tertiaries. Founded to preach the gospel and to oppose heresy, the teaching activity of the order and its scholastic organisation placed it at the forefront of the intellectual life of the Middle Ages. The order is famed for its intellectual tradition and for having produced many leading theologia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Archdiocese Of İzmir
The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of İzmir () is a Latin archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Asian Turkey (Anatolia). The archdiocese's cathedral Mother Church, motherchurch and thus see of its archbishop is St. John's Cathedral (İzmir), St. John's Cathedral. It also includes a World Heritage Site: Meryem Ana Evi Meryem Ana Evi, Bülbüldağı. Martin Kmetec Order of Friars Minor Conventual, OFMConv, was appointed Archbishop of İzmir by Pope Francis on 8 December 2020. History In 1346 was established a Latin ''Archdiocese of Smyrna (Smirne)''. In 1575 it was suppressed as residential see but immediately transformed into a Latin titular archbishopric. The title was held by: * Eugenio di Pesaro, Augustinian Order, OESA (1575.11.16 – ?) * Agostino Buzio di Varese, Order of Friars Minor, OFM (1580.07.04 – ?) * Carlo Gaudenzio Madruzzo (1595.10.23 – 1600.04.02) (later Cardinal) In 1625 the residential see was restored, but demoted to missionary pre-dioce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congregation Of The Sacred Hearts Of Jesus And Mary
The Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary () abbreviated SS.CC., is a Catholic clerical religious congregation of Pontifical Right for priests and brothers. The congregation is also known as the Picpus because their first house was on the Rue de Picpus in Paris, France. History French Revolution beginnings The Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary arose amid the religious upheaval caused by the French Revolution. In March 1792, the Frenchman Pierre Coudrin was secretly ordained to the priesthood. The following May, Father Coudrin went into hiding in an attic of the granary of the Chateau d'Usseau and stayed confined there for six months to escape the government's persecution of the Catholic non-juring priests who refused to accept the Civil Constitution of the Clergy. One evening during his time in hiding, Coudrin had a vision of himself surrounded by a heavenly illuminated group of priests, brothers and sisters dressed in white robes, which h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cistercians
The Cistercians (), officially the Order of Cistercians (, abbreviated as OCist or SOCist), are a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that branched off from the Benedictines and follow the Rule of Saint Benedict, as well as the contributions of the highly influential Bernard of Clairvaux, known as the Latin Rule. They are also known as Bernardines, after Bernard of Clairvaux, Saint Bernard, or as White Monks, in reference to the colour of their cowl, as opposed to the black cowl worn by Benedictines. The term ''Cistercian'' derives from ''Cistercium,'' the Latin name for the locale of Cîteaux, near Dijon in eastern France. It was here that a group of Benedictine monks from the monastery of Molesme Abbey, Molesme founded Cîteaux Abbey in 1098. The first three abbots were Robert of Molesme, Alberic of Cîteaux and Stephen Harding. Bernard helped launch a new era when he entered the monastery in the early 1110s with 30 companions. By the end of the 12th century, the ord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominique Marie Varlet
Dominique-Marie Varlet (15 March 1678 in Paris – 14 May 1742 in Rijswijk) was a French prelate and missionary of the Catholic Church who served as vicar general of the Diocese of Quebec. Later, as the Roman Catholic Bishop of Babylon, he was involved in a schism within the Roman Catholic Church by consecrating four men successively as Archbishop of Utrecht. Early life Varlet was born in Paris on March 15, 1678 to Achille Varlet and Marie Vallée. His father was an actor known by the name Sieur de Verneuil, and his uncle, Charles Varlet de La Grange, was a famous collaborator and friend of Molière. Little is known of his mother, except that she was the daughter of a Parisian hatter, was much younger than her husband, and that she, too, had been involved in theater. Varlet's parents had seven children, of which three survived to adulthood, including Varlet and his younger siblings Jean-Achille (1681-1720) and Marie-Anne. Seminary formation and education As a young man, Va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatines
The Theatines, officially named the Congregation of Clerics Regular (; abbreviated CR), is a Catholic order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men founded by Archbishop Gian Pietro Carafa on 14 September 1524. Foundation The order was founded by Saint Cajetan (Gaetano dei Conti di Thiene), Paolo Consiglieri, Bonifacio da Colle, and Giovanni Pietro Carafa (afterwards Pope Paul IV). Carafa was Bishop of Chieti; Chieti (Theate) is a city of the Abruzzi in Central Italy, from which the congregation adopted its specific name, to distinguish it from other congregations (Barnabites, Somaschi, Caracciolini, etc.) modelled upon it. The Theatines combined the pursuit of evangelical perfection traditional among religious orders with apostolic service generally expected of diocesan clergy. It was Carafa who wrote the constitutions of the order. Cajetan consecrated his order to the Cross, which he adopted as its emblem, and the foundation took place on the feast of the Findin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis-Marie Pidou De Saint-Olon
Louis-Marie may refer to: *Louis Marie Baptiste Atthalin (1784–1856), French Army officer, politician, painter, watercolorist, and lithographer * Louis-Marie-Augustin d'Aumont, 4th Duke of Aumont of the Aumont family, a French noble house * Louis-Marie Autissier (1772–1830), French-born Belgian portrait miniature painter * Louis-Marie Baader (1828–1920), French painter of German descent *Louis-Marie-Edmond Blanquart de Bailleul (1795–1868), French Roman Catholic bishop * Louis-Marie-Raphaël Barbier (1792–1852), physician and surgeon from Berthier-en-Haut in Lower Canada *Louis-Marie Baudouin (1765–1835), French Roman Catholic priest, founder of the Sons of Mary Immaculate and the Ursulines of Jesus * Louis-Marie-Joseph Beaumont (1753–1828), farmer and political figure in Lower Canada *Louis-Marie Billé (1938–2002), French clergyman, archbishop of Lyon, cardinal until his death in office * Louis-Marie de Blignières (born 1949), French traditionalist Catholic priest, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Order Of Saint Benedict
The Benedictines, officially the Order of Saint Benedict (, abbreviated as O.S.B. or OSB), are a mainly contemplative monastic order of the Catholic Church for men and for women who follow the Rule of Saint Benedict. Initiated in 529, they are the oldest of all the religious orders in the Latin Church. The male religious are also sometimes called the Black Monks, especially in English speaking countries, after the colour of their habits, although some, like the Olivetans, wear white. They were founded by Benedict of Nursia, a 6th-century Italian monk who laid the foundations of Benedictine monasticism through the formulation of his Rule. Benedict's sister, Scholastica, possibly his twin, also became a religious from an early age, but chose to live as a hermit. They retained a close relationship until her death. Despite being called an order, the Benedictines do not operate under a single hierarchy. They are instead organized as a collection of autonomous monasteries a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
