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Diocese

Sankt Laurentii kyrka

Diocese of Linkping, Sderkpings kommun, Swed

Pope Pius XI blesses Bishop Stephen Alencastre as

Apostolic Vicar of the Hawaiian Islands in a Cathedra

Our Lady of Peace window. In Roman Catholicism, th

pope is the bishop of the Diocese of Rome. He create

the other dioceses throughout the world and chooses

their bishops.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A diocese is the district or see under the supervision of a Bishop. It isivided into Parishes (in the Church of England into benefices and

parishes).

An archdiocese is more significant than a diocese. An archdiocese is

presided over by an archbishop whose see may have or have hadmportance due to size or historical significance. The archbishop mayave metropolitan authority over any other (then 'suffragan') bishops

and their dioceses within his Ecclesiastical Province.

This structure of church governance is known as episcopal polity.

A diocese also may be referred to as a bishopricor episcopal see,hough strictly the term episcopal seerefers to the domain ofcclesiastical authority officially held by the bishop, and the term

bishopricto the post of being bishop.

The bishops, Greek: Episkopos, elders or overseers, of the long-

established churches claim Apostolic succession, a directhistorical lineage dating back to the original Twelve Apostles.

The word dioceseis from the Greek term , meaning

"administration".

Contents

1 Catholic Church

1.1 Eastern Catholic churches

2 Eastern Orthodox Church3 Church of England and Anglican Communion

4 Lutheranism

4.1 Poland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Iceland,

Sweden, Finland

4.2 Lutheranism in USA

5 Church of God in Christ

6 Churches that have bishops, but not dioceses

6.1 Methodism

7 Churches that have neither bishops nor dioceses

7.1 Baptists8 History

9 See also

10 Notes

11 Sources and external links

12 External links
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St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh

Cathedral of the Diocese of Armagh and Metropolita

Cathedral of the United Provinces of Armagh and Tu

Church of Ireland

Anglican Communion

Catholic Church

As of August 2013, in the Roman Catholic Church there are 640 archdioceses (including 9 patriarchates, 4 majorarchdioceses, 550 metropolitan archdioceses, 77 single archdioceses) and 2,205 dioceses in the world.

Eastern Catholic churches

n the Eastern Catholic Churches (which recognize papal authority and are a part of the larger Catholic Church), the

quivalent unit is called an eparchy.

Eastern Orthodox Church

The Eastern Orthodox Church calls dioceses metropoleis in the Greekradition or eparchies in the Slavic tradition.

Church of England and Anglican Communion

After the Reformation, the Church of England retained the existingiocesan structure which remains throughout the Anglican Communion.

LutheranismPoland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Sweden,

Finland

Certain Lutheran denominations such as the Church of Sweden doave individual dioceses similar to Roman Catholics. These dioceses

and archdioceses are under the government of a bishop (see

Archbishop of Uppsala).[1] Other Lutheran bodies and synods that haveioceses and bishops include the Church of Denmark, the Evangelical

Lutheran Church of Finland, the Evangelical Church in Germany (partially), and the Church of Norway.[2]

Lutheranism in USA

Some American Lutheran synods such as the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America do have a bishop acting as the he

of the synod,[3] but the synod does not have dioceses and archdioceses as the churches listed above. Rather, it is divided

nto a middle judicatory.[4] The Lutheran Church-International, based in Springfield, Illinois, presently uses a traditional

iocesan structure, with four dioceses in North America. Its current president is Archbishop Robert W. Hotes.[5]

Church of God in Christ

The Church of God in Christ has many dioceses all across the United States. In the COGIC, each U.S. state is divided upnto at least three dioceses that are all led by a bishop, but there are many U.S. states that have as many as seven diocen the COGIC, the dioceses are called "Jurisdictions."

Churches that have bishops, but not dioceses

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has bishops, but not dioceses. LDS bishops are leaders of a ward, whichimilar in size to a parish or congregation, but which may have smaller branches.

Methodism

See also: Methodist Circuit and Episcopal Area
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Dioceses

of the Roman Empire

400 AD

n the British Methodist Church and Irish Methodist Church, churches are grouped together in sections. Sections are grouogether to form Circuits. Circuits are grouped together to form Districts. All of these, combined with the local membershiphe Church, are referred to as the 'Connexion'. This 18th-century term, endorsed by John Wesley who remained within thChurch of England, describes how people serving in different geographical centres are 'connected' to each other. TheMethodist Church has an annual president. Each District is headed by a 'Chair' who oversees its functioning. Each Circuit

overned by a superintendent minister. The geographical regions covered by circuits and dioceses rarely overlap.

n the United Methodist Church (the United States and some other countries), a bishop is given oversight over a geograparea called an Episcopal Area. Each episcopal area contains one or more annual conferences, which is how the churche

and clergy under the bishop's supervision are organized. Thus, the use of the term "diocese" referring to geography is themost equivalent in the United Methodist Church, whereas each annual conference is part of one episcopal area (though tarea may contain more than one conference). The African Methodist Episcopal Church has a similar structure to the UniteMethodist Church, also using the Episcopal Area.

Churches that have neither bishops nor dioceses

Baptists

Most Baptists hold that no church or ecclesiastical organization has inherent authority over a Baptist church. Churches caproperly relate to each other under this polity only through voluntary cooperation, never by any sort of coercion. Furtherm

his Baptist polity calls for freedom from governmental control.[6] Most Baptists believe in "Two offices of the church"pas

lder and deaconbased on certain scriptures (1 Timothy 3:113 (http://www.biblegateway.com/bible?passage=1Tim%203%3A1%E2%80%9313;&version=;); Titus 12 (http://www.biblegateway.com/bible?passage=Titus%201%E2%80%932;&version=NIV;)).

Exceptions to this local form of local governance include a few churches that submit to the leadership of a body of elders,well as the Episcopal Baptists that have an Episcopal system.

History

See also: Bishops and civil government

n the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasinglyubdivided provinces were administratively associated in a larger unit,he diocese (Latin dioecesis, from the Greek term , meaningadministration").

With the adoption of Christianity as the Empire's official religion in the4th century, the clergy assumed official positions of authority alongsidehe civil governors. A formal church hierarchy was set up, parallel to theivil administration, whose areas of responsibility often coincided.

With the collapse of the Western Empire in the 5th century, the bishopsn Western Europe assumed a large part of the role of the formerRoman governors. A similar, though less pronounced, developmentoccurred in the East, where the Roman administrative apparatus wasargely retained by the Byzantine Empire. In modern times, many

iocese, though later subdivided, have preserved the boundaries of aong-vanished Roman administrative division. For Gaul, Bruce Eaglesas observed that "it has long been an academic commonplace in France that the medieval dioceses, and their constitue

pagi, were the direct territorial successors of the Roman civitates.[7]

Modern usage of 'diocese' tends to refer to the sphere of a bishop's jurisdiction. This became commonplace during the seonscious "classicizing" structural evolution of the Carolingian empire in the 9th century, but this usage had itself beenvolving from the much earlier parochia("parish"), dating from the increasingly formalised Christian authority structure in

4th century (see EB1911).
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See also

List of Eastern Orthodox dioceses and

archdioceses

List of Anglican dioceses

List of Anglican Church of Canada dioceses

List of Church of England diocesesList of Church of Ireland dioceses

Dioceses of the Episcopal Church in the United

States of America

List of Lutheran dioceses and archdioceses

List of the dioceses of the Orthodox Church in

America

List of Roman Catholic archdioceses

List of Roman Catholic dioceses

List of the Roman Catholic dioceses of the United

States

Eparchy, a term in Eastern Catholicism, Eastern

Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, and the Assyrian

Church of the EastList of Bishops

Notitia dignitatum

Particular Church

Ecclesiastical Latin

Catholic Church in Great Britain

Structure of the Church of England

Global organisation of the Roman Catholic Church

Notes

1. ^ Adam of Bremen, Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum (http://hbar.phys.msu.su/gorm/chrons/bremen.htm), online

text in Latin; scholia 94.

2. ^ see List of Lutheran dioceses and archdioceses.

3. ^ Office of the Presiding Bishop (http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Office-

the-presiding-bishop.aspx) on ELCA.org. Retrieved 2010-16-04.

4. ^ LERNing newsletter from July 2005 (http://www2.elca.org/ecumenical/lern/lerning_vol2_no4.pdf) at ELCA.org. Retrieved

2010-16-04.

5. ^ [1] (http://www.lutheranchurchinternational.org/)

6. ^ Pinson, William M., Jr. Trends in Baptist Polity(http://www.baptisthistory.org/contissues/pinson.htm). Baptist History andHeritage Society.

7. ^ Bruce Eagles, "Britons and Saxons on the Eastern Boundary of the Civitas Durotrigum" Britannia35 (2004:234240) p 23

noting for instance E.M. Wightman, Gallia Belgica(London) 1985:26.

Sources and external links

Definition from 1911 Britannica

(http://web.archive.org/web/20060405232322/http://5.1911encyclopedia.org/D/DI/DIOCESE.htm)

Complete list of Catholic dioceses worldwide (http://www.gcatholic.com/dioceses/) by Giga-Catholic Information

(http://www.gcatholic.com)

Virtually complete list of current and historical Catholic dioceses worldwide (http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/)

Another such list, in English and Norwegian (http://www.katolsk.no/utenriks/index_en.htm)

List of current Anglican/Episcopalian dioceses (http://anglican.org/domain/admin/bydiocese.html)

"Diocese" (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05001a.htm). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton

Company. 1913.

Indian Orthodox Church Diocese Portal (http://www.diocese.in)

Coats of Bishops and of Dioceses
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