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Very interested in politics, Bishop became the secretary of New Haven Colony from 1651 to 1658. He was very involved in the early governments of New Haven and Connecticut colonies, serving at various times as deputy to the legislature. He was a Representative in 1665 and served seven terms until 1668. [3] He was assistant judge from 1668 to ...
The Archbishop of New York is the head of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, who is responsible for looking after its spiritual and administrative needs.As the archdiocese is the metropolitan see of the ecclesiastical province encompassing nearly all of the state of New York, [1] [2] the Archbishop of New York also administers the bishops who head the suffragan dioceses of Albany ...
Each color on the map represents an ecclesiastical province. The divisions in each province show the archdiocese and its individual dioceses. The following is a list of bishops of the Catholic Church in the United States, including Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The General Convention is the primary governing and legislative body of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.With the exception of the Bible, the Book of Common Prayer, and the Constitution and Canons, it is the ultimate authority in the Episcopal Church, being the bureaucratic facility through which the collegial function of the episcopate is exercised.
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is the episcopal conference of the Catholic Church in the United States.Founded in 1966 as the joint National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) and United States Catholic Conference (USCC), it is composed of all active and retired members of the Catholic hierarchy (i.e., diocesan, coadjutor, and auxiliary bishops and the ordinary of ...
Description. The Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, was originally established as a military vicariate, with the Archbishop of New York serving as the military vicar. It was reorganized as an archdiocese, with its own archbishop. Its headquarters was relocated from New York City to Washington, D.C. by Pope John Paul II in 1986.
1151–1200. [] Daniel Cardinal DiNardo (1152) is the current archbishop of Galveston-Houston. José Horacio Gómez (1186) is the current archbishop of Los Angeles. Timothy Cardinal Dolan (1196) is the current archbishop of New York.
David Allen Zubik (/ ˈzuːbɪk / ZOO-bik; born September 4, 1949) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been bishop of the Diocese of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania since 2007. Zubik previously served as bishop of the Diocese of Green Bay in Wisconsin from 2003 to 2007, and as an auxiliary bishop of Pittsburgh from 1997 to 2003.