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768:, describes how people serving in different geographical centres are 'connected' to each other. Personal oversight of the Methodist Church is exercised by the President of the Conference, a presbyter elected to serve for a year by the Methodist Conference; such oversight is shared with the Vice-President, who is always a deacon or layperson. Each District is headed by a 'Chair', a presbyter who oversees the district. Although the district is similar in size to a diocese, and Chairs meet regularly with their partner bishops, the Methodist superintendent is closer to the bishop in function than is the chair. The purpose of the district is to resource the circuits; it has no function otherwise. 509: 764:. Each local church belongs to a circuit, and the circuit is overseen by a superintendent minister who has pastoral charge of all the circuit churches (though in practice he or she delegates such charge to other presbyters who each care for a section of the circuit and chair the local church meetings as deputies of the superintendent). This echoes the practice of the early church where the bishop was supported by a bench of presbyters. Circuits are grouped together to form Districts. All of these, combined with the local membership of the Church, are referred to as the "Connexion". This 18th-century term, endorsed by 367: 192: 136: 1110: 880: 39: 745:, which is how the churches and clergy under the bishop's supervision are organized. Thus, the use of the term "diocese" referring to geography is the most equivalent in the United Methodist Church, whereas each annual conference is part of one episcopal area (though that area may contain more than one conference). The 419:
for greater cooperation and common action among regional dioceses. Within an ecclesiastical province, one diocese can be designated an "archdiocese" or "metropolitan archdiocese", establishing centrality within an ecclesiastical province and denoting a higher rank. Archdioceses are often chosen based
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found that clergy were making a corrupt profit. Nonetheless, these courts were popular as people could get quick justice without being charged fees. Bishops had no part in the civil administration until the town councils, in decline, lost much authority to a group of 'notables' made up of the richest
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defines a diocese as "a portion of the people of God which is entrusted to a bishop for him to shepherd with the cooperation of the presbyterium, so that, adhering to its pastor and gathered by him in the Holy Spirit through the gospel and the Eucharist, it constitutes a particular church in which
538:. The one change is that the areas administered under the Archbishop of Canterbury and Archbishop of York are properly referred to as dioceses, not archdioceses: they are the metropolitan bishops of their respective provinces and bishops of their own diocese and have the position of archbishop. 833:
hold that no church or ecclesiastical organization has inherent authority over a Baptist church. Churches can properly relate to each other under this polity only through voluntary cooperation, never by any sort of coercion. Furthermore, this Baptist polity calls for freedom from governmental
675:(COGIC) has dioceses throughout the United States. In the COGIC, most states are divided into at least three or more dioceses that are each led by a bishop (sometimes called a "state bishop"); some states have as many as ten dioceses. These dioceses are called "jurisdictions" within COGIC. 274:. In modern times, many dioceses, though later subdivided, have preserved the boundaries of a long-vanished Roman administrative division. For Gaul, Bruce Eagles has observed that "it has long been an academic commonplace in France that the medieval dioceses, and their constituent 420:
on their population and historical significance. All dioceses and archdioceses, and their respective bishops or archbishops, are distinct and autonomous. An archdiocese has limited responsibilities within the same ecclesiastical province assigned to it by the Holy See.
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collapsed in the 5th century, bishops in Western Europe assumed a larger part of the role of the former Roman governors. A similar, though less pronounced, development occurred in the East, where the Roman administrative apparatus was largely retained by the
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Modern usage of 'diocese' tends to refer to the sphere of a bishop's jurisdiction. This became commonplace during the self-conscious "classicizing" structural evolution of the
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have a bishop acting as the head of the synod, but the synod does not have dioceses and archdioceses as the churches listed above. Rather, it is divided into a
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organized Cathar communities into bishoprics, which each had a bishop presiding over a specific division, even though there was no central authority.
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in 318 gave litigants the right to have court cases transferred from the civil courts to the bishops. This situation must have hardly survived
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has a similar structure to the United Methodist Church, also using the Episcopal Area. The bishops govern the church as a single bench.
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councilors, powerful and rich persons legally exempted from serving on the councils, retired military, and bishops post-AD 450. As the
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do have individual dioceses similar to Roman Catholics. These dioceses and archdioceses are under the government of a bishop (see
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Bateman, C.G. (January 17, 2018). "The Supreme 'Courts' of the Roman Empire: Constantine's Judicial Role for the Bishops".
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control. Most Baptists believe in "Two offices of the church"—pastor-elder and deacon—based on certain scriptures (
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Many churches worldwide have neither bishops nor dioceses. Most of these churches are descended from the
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This article is about ecclesiastical dioceses. For the administrative entities in the Roman Empire, see
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A History of the Church, from the Edict of Milan, A.D. 313, to the Council of Chalcedon, A.D. 451
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Eagles, Bruce (2004). "Britons and Saxons on the Eastern Boundary of the Civitas Durotrigum".
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the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church of Christ is truly present and operative."
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in its constitution uses the specific term "Episcopal Unit" for both dioceses and
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in the 9th century, but this usage had itself been evolving from the much earlier
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are ruled by assemblies of "elders" or ordained officers. This is usually called
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districts defined by geographical territory. Dioceses are often grouped by the
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Virtually complete list of current and historical Catholic dioceses worldwide
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there are 2,898 regular dioceses (or eventually eparchies) consisting of: 1
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government by the continental Reformed, but is essentially the same as
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retained the existing diocesan structure which remains throughout the
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or "archeparchy", with an "eparch" or "archeparch" serving as the
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Adam of Bremen, Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum
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were administratively associated in a larger unit, the
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Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia
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of a metropolitan see or are directly subject to the
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(2016). 448:Eastern Catholic Churches 441:metropolitan archdioceses 139:Like other dioceses, the 28:Diocesan (disambiguation) 984:Bright, William (1860). 754:British Methodist Church 417:ecclesiastical provinces 407:. They are described as 1413:Pinson, William M. Jr. 1337:Church Of God In Christ 1308:Church Of God In Christ 1095:Encyclopædia Britannica 1054:Wightman, E.M. (1985). 810:Congregational churches 735:United Methodist Church 673:Church of God in Christ 667:Church of God in Christ 484:Eastern Orthodox Church 468:Eastern Orthodox Church 323:ecclesiastical province 171:ecclesiastical district 1434:Cite journal requires 1394:The Church of Scotland 1333:"The Executive Branch" 1052:, noting for instance 928:Methodist Church Ghana 909: 778:Protestant Reformation 758:Irish Methodist Church 713:Council of Saint-Félix 574: 568: 559: 547: 523: 513:St Patrick's Cathedral 374: 196: 154: 1529:Christian terminology 1122:Catholic Encyclopedia 1058:. 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