A diocese is the name of a territorial district of the Roman Empire and Christian Churches (Roman Catholic church, orthodoxe Église, Armenian apostolic Église, Église copte). At its head a bishop directs. The Orthodoxe equivalent and of the Catholic churches of Eastern rite is the éparchie.

Worsen Roman

The Dioecesis (or diœcesis , plural or collective), in the late Roman Empire (starting from the Tétrarchie founded by Dioclétien) is an administrative unit gathering several provinces and under the responsibility of a Vicaire, representative civil of the emperor; the diocese in its turn broke up into provinces. The diocese was governed by a vicar of the prefect.

Initially, the empire contained 12 dioceses. In xxxx, the Roman Empire counted in all 14 dioceses: 4 in the prefecture of Italy: Italy, Western Rome, Illyrie, Africa; 3 in the prefecture of Gaules: Gaulle, Hispanie, Brittany; 2 in the prefecture of Illyrie: Dacie, Macedonia; 5 in the prefecture of the East: Thrace, Asia, Bridge, the East, Egypt.

Catholic church

In the Catholic church the diocese is a particular Church, placed under the authority of a bishop. A diocese gathers several Paroisse S territorial. Several dioceses form a ecclesiastical Province or a province Métropolitain E, under the authority of a Archevêque.

According to the canonical Code of right of 1983, which takes again the terms of the council the Vatican II, the diocese is “the portion of God's people entrusted to a bishop so that it is, with the co-operation of presbytérium, Pasteur… ”.

Caution: évêché and diocese are not completely synonymous. The diocese is only one aspect of évêché, restricted with the territory.

The “évêché” word can indicate:

• is the residence of the bishop, the building;
• is the city where it resides;
• is the institution or legal personality managed by the chapter.
• is possibly the territory more precisely called the diocese.

See too

Related bonds

• Dioceses of the Roman Empire
• List of the catholic jurisdictions
• bishop
• Roman Province
• List of évêchés and archbishop's palaces French (Old Mode)
• French catholic Districts at the XIXe century
• French catholic Districts since 2002
• List of the dioceses and archdioceses of Canada
• Évêchés of Brittany
• Évêchés of Normandy
• late Antiquity

External bond

• List of the dioceses of France to the Middle Ages

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