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Provincial councils, strictly so-called, date from the fourth century, when the metropolitical authority had become fully developed. But synods, approaching nearer to the modern signification of a plenary council, are to be recognized in the synodical assemblies of bishops under primatial, exarchal, or patriarchal authority, recorded from the fourth and fifth centuries, and possibly earlier.
Meeting in 1852 in Baltimore, Maryland, the council was the first national gathering of all American bishops, archbishops, and leaders of major religious orders. [1] The conference published the decrees listed in this article to serve as policies and procedures for Catholic leaders and laypeople in the United States.
In 1884 at the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, the U.S. Catholic bishops decreed the establishment of a national appeal to benefit mission work among African Americans and American Indian and the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions. They further decreed that all parishes conduct the appeal on the first Sunday in Lent and that a commission of ...
The 1st plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party was convened on October 23, 2022, immediately after the closing of the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. The following were elected during the session: the General Secretary, the Politburo Standing Committee, and the Politburo.
The Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party entrusted General Secretary Xi Jinping with the responsibility of delivering the work report, which was presented and deliberated during the session.
Plenary and provincial councils are categorized as particular councils. A particular council is composed of all the bishops of the territory (including coadjutors and auxiliaries) as well as other ecclesiastical ordinaries who head particular churches in the territory (such as territorial abbots and vicars apostolic). Each of these members has ...
Debate over the inclusion of the National Transitional Council as Libya's representativeto the UN, passed with support from Chad, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Iran and Senegal, after doubts were raised by Angola, Bolivia, Cuba, Kenya, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Zambia. [1] A/RES/66/1 B Plenary 3 (b) 26 October 2011
The Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People (Latin: Pontificium Consilium de Spirituali Migrantium atque Itinerantium Cura) was a pontifical council of the Roman Curia. The council, established by Pope John Paul II on 28 June 1988, was dedicated to the spiritual welfare of migrant and itinerant people.