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The Evangelical State Church in Prussia, formed in 1821 (renamed: Evangelical State Church in Prussia's older Provinces in 1875, Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union in 1922), had ecclesiastical provinces (Kirchenprovinzen) as administrative subsections mostly following the boundaries of those political Provinces of Prussia which formed ...
An ecclesiastical region (Latin: regio ecclesiastica) is a formally organised geographical group of dioceses, ecclesiastical provinces or parishes, without a proper Ordinary as such, in Catholic or Protestant Churches.
The Episcopal Church (TEC) is governed by a General Convention and consists of 108 dioceses: 96 dioceses in the United States proper, plus ten dioceses in other countries or outlying U.S. territories, the diocese of Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe, and a diocese for Armed Services and Federal Ministries.
The parish with its parish church(es) is the basic territorial unit of the Church of England. The parish has its roots in the Roman Catholic Church and survived the English Reformation largely untouched. Each is within one of 42 dioceses: [1] divided between the thirty of the Province of Canterbury and the twelve of that of York. There are ...
Eastern Church dioceses, directly subject to the Holy See (exempt) or to their particular church's Patriarch or Major Archbishop. Armenian Catholic Diocese of Sainte-Croix-de-Paris, Eparchy with cathedral see in Paris, in and for France, immediately subject to the Patriarch of Cilicia, but not part of his province
The diocese of Blackburn is diocese of the Church of England in North West England. Its boundaries correspond to northern Lancashire. The diocese contains 211 parishes and 280 churches. Blackburn Cathedral is the seat of the bishop of Blackburn, currently Philip North, and the diocesan offices are also located in Blackburn. [1]
In 2017 there were approximately 12,600 Church of England parishes in all, with 477 being within this diocese. [4] Each parish is administered by a parish priest who may be assisted in his pastoral duties by a curate or curates, who are also ordained but not parish priests. There are wide variations in the size of parishes and church-going ...
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