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In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. [1] History. Dioceses of the Roman Empire, AD 400. In ...
The presiding bishop has two counselors; the three together form the presiding bishopric. [72] As opposed to ward bishoprics, where the counselors do not hold the office of bishop, all three men in the presiding bishopric hold the office of bishop, and thus the counselors, as with the presiding bishop, are formally referred to as "Bishop". [73]
The seat or cathedra of the Bishop of Rome in the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran. An episcopal see is the area of a bishop's ecclesiastical jurisdiction. [1] [2]Phrases concerning actions occurring within or outside an episcopal see are indicative of the geographical significance of the term, making it synonymous with diocese.
An Eastern Catholic bishop of the Syro-Malabar Church holding the Mar Thoma Cross which symbolizes the heritage and identity of the Syrian Church of Saint Thomas Christians of India Johann Otto von Gemmingen, Prince-Bishop of Augsburg in Bavaria, 1591–1598, carrying a crosier and wearing a mitre and pluviale.
The terms prince-bishopric (Fürstbistum, or simply Bistum) and ecclesiastical principality are synonymous with Hochstift. Erzstift and Kurerzstift referred respectively to the territory ( prince-archbishopric ) ruled by a prince-archbishop and an elector-archbishop while Stift referred to the territory ruled by an imperial abbot or abbess, or ...
A suffragan bishop is a type of bishop in some Christian denominations.. In the Catholic Church, a suffragan bishop leads a diocese within an ecclesiastical province other than the principal diocese, the metropolitan archdiocese; the diocese led by the suffragan is called a suffragan diocese.
The Anglican Diocese of Jerusalem, established in 1841, was raised to the status of a non-metropolitan archiepiscopal see in 1957, but reduced to the status of an ordinary bishopric again in 1976. In 2014 it was again elevated to the status of non-metropolitan archbishopric, with its ordinary bearing the title "Archbishop in Jerusalem", despite ...
The Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg (German: Hochstift Bamberg) was an ecclesiastical State of the Holy Roman Empire. [1] It goes back to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bamberg established at the 1007 synod in Frankfurt , at the behest of King Henry II to further expand the spread of Christianity in the Franconian lands.