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When a diocese is suppressed or when the diocesan see is transferred to another location, the title of the former see becomes available for assignment to a titular bishop or, in the case of an archdiocese, a titular archbishop or an archbishop ad personam. The Vatican resurrected the names of many former sees of the United States in the 1990s ...
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) established a comprehensive set of procedures in June 2002 called the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People. The document mandates permanent national and diocesan offices to oversee adherence to the guidelines for accountability, prevention, reconciliation, and healing ...
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is the episcopal conference of the Catholic Church in the United States.Founded in 2001 after the merger of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) and United States Catholic Conference (USCC), the USCCB is a registered corporation based in Washington, D.C.
Leadership of the Catholic Church in the United States is provided by the bishops, individually for their own dioceses and collectively through the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. There are some mid-level groupings of bishops, such as ecclesiastical provinces (often covering a state) and the fourteen geographic regions of the ...
The Diocese of Camden (Latin: Dioecesis Camdensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in the U.S. state of New Jersey.It consists of 62 parishes and about 475,000 Catholics in the South Jersey counties of Atlantic, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, and Salem.
See: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops § Regions The USCCB divides the Latin Church dioceses of the United States into fourteen geographical regions and an overlapping fifteenth 'region' that consists of the Eastern Catholic jurisdictions.
During former U.S. President Jimmy Carter's state funeral in Washington, D.C., several presidents and vice presidents who held office after him came to pay their respects and offer condolences.
When Pope Pius VII erected the Diocese of New York and the Diocese of Philadelphia in 1808, he split the new state of New Jersey between the two dioceses. [5] However, when Pope Pius IX erected the Diocese of Newark in 1853, he reunited the state of New Jersey as its initial territory. [6]