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Baron Ferenc Forgách de Ghymes et Gács (c. 1530 [1] – 19 January 1577) was a Hungarian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, who served as bishop of Várad (today: Oradea Mare) and Chancellor of Transylvania between 1571 and 1575. His mentor was Nicolaus Olahus.
Together with five other prelates – including John of Nyitra, Nicholas Kőszegi of Győr and Augustin Kažotić of Zagreb – Emeric protested against the oligarch Matthew Csák's plundering raids at the expense of the Archdiocese of Esztergom in 1313.
Ukraine - Kyiv–Halych (the Major Archdiocese in chief), Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Ternopil–Zboriv Elsewhere - Przemyśl–Warsaw (Metropolitan of the province in Poland), Winnipeg (Metropolitan of the province in Canada), Philadelphia (Metropolitan of the USA province), São João Batista em Curitiba (Metropolitan of the Brazilian province)
During a preliminary assembly on July 9, 2023, in Kalibo, Aklan, the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines voted in favor of the proposal of Bishop Cosme Almedilla of Butuan for the separation from Butuan of a new diocese that will cover the province of Agusan del Sur, which is considered a “missionary frontier” with a third of its population being indigenous peoples.
The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Thiruvananthapuram is one of the biggest episcopal territories in Kerala, with a Catholic population of nearly 280,000 people, even after the bifurcation of the Diocese of Neyyattinkara some years ago. The 95 parishes, 31 quasi parishes and 34 mass centers of the Diocese are grouped together into 9 Foranes.
In the Catholic Church, a province consists of a metropolitan archdiocese and one or more (1-13) suffragan dioceses headed by diocesan bishops or territorial prelatures and missions sui iuris. The archbishop of the metropolitan see is the metropolitan of the province.
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On April 4, 1979, the Archdiocese was merged with the Diocese of Cariati to become the Archdiocese of Rossano e Cariati. On September 9, 1986, the Archdiocese was renamed to Archdiocese of Rossano–Cariati [2] The Co-Cathedral of the Archangel Michael in located in Cariati. On January 30, 2001, the Archdiocese of Cosenza-Bisignano was elevated ...