He had just been taking his Every Second Thursday Talk with Diocesan Men Helpers.
Berthold, Archbishop of Mainz, in his diocesan edict of 1486, asserted that vernaculars were unable to express the profundity of the thoughts contained in the original languages of the Scriptures or in the Latin of the Vulgate.
The Provincial Synods were convened twice a year under the presidency of the metropolitan; as courts of higher instances we have the Patriarchal or Diocesan Synods (comp.
They were subordinate assistants of the diocesan bishops, whose convenience, unspirituality and often absence on state affairs demanded such substitutes.
The bishops subject to the archbishop were called diocesan bishops, or, as voting members of the Provincial Synod, suffragan bishops.
In any case the very nature ofdiocesan authority militated against success.
In that year, to judge by the Diocesan records, no less than eighty-five per cent.
This was a convenience both to the Brotherhood and to the Diocesan himself.
The members of the Congress are delegates from the various parishes, from social, mutual and diocesan organizations.
What about the autonomy of parish and diocesan units?
The parish and diocesan units are and must ever remain supreme, each in its own sphere.
Too long, we believe, have Catholic social activities been directed along purely parochial and diocesan lines.
Without wishing to disparage the value of parochial and diocesan activities, we claim that the issues we have placed before our readers are not confined within the imaginary lines of the parochial unit or the boundaries of jurisdiction.
Naturally this problem of higher education is one that overflows diocesan boundaries and remains common to all.
But, of course, this sort of thing--Diocesan Fund, eh?
It is wonderful to think of, when Bishop Heavysides got nothing at all for hisDiocesan sermons, and had to make up thirty pounds out of his own pocket as well.
But, if it is not too much to ask, I should regard it as a favor another time if I might be informed beforehand what direction your diocesan aid was about to take.
In London, more than in any part of England, the Diocesan system is valuable.
Not merely its Parochial system, but its Diocesan system.
This arrangement has been found to be very helpful in creating a greater interest in the work of Diocesan Missions and in promoting Church extension within the Convocational limits.
A Parish Church used for Cathedral or Diocesan purposes, but without the formation of a legal Cathedral organization and without a Cathedral chapter.
The term is also applied to the annual meetings of {70} the Bishop, Clergy and Laity of a Missionary Jurisdiction, which being a mission, is not entitled to hold a Diocesan Council or Convention.
Church work done in a Diocese outside of its Parishes and having for its object the extension of the Church within the territorial limits of the Diocese, is called Diocesan Missions.
The support of Diocesan Missions is as obligatory on all members of the Church as the support of the Bishop or their own Parish, and to this all will contribute annually if they love the Lord Jesus in sincerity and truth.
It is the centre of Diocesan activities and of the mission work carried on by the Cathedral clergy under the direction of the Bishop.
There may have been a number of the Irish non-diocesan bishops in the mission.
There was no diocesan episcopate in the early Irish Church; it was organized on a monastic system.
But we are not even to fix the æra of diocesan Bishops so early as this, for there were no such office-bearers in the church of Scotland, until the reign of Malcolm II.
The inferior authority in the Church may be said to be in the priesthood, whose rights and duties are fixed by the canon law, but who are still further subject to the reasonable diocesan rules made by the bishop.
In Paris more than three hundred were exercising their ministry openly; the diocesan administration was reorganized; and a general interest in the unhappy lot of imprisoned priests began to manifest itself among the people.
No council, national or metropolitan, nodiocesan synod, no deliberative assembly, shall be held without the express permission of the Government.
The ecclesiastical salaries shall be re-established whenever the bishop, or the diocesan administrator shall pledge himself in writing to observe the laws of the State.
He organized the East London Mission to the Jews, which first came under regular diocesan management when the present Bishop of London was Bishop of Stepney.
The house at Nyack was burned down before it was occupied; the Lafargeville project also proved a failure and it was not until 1841 that the diocesan seminary was opened at Fordham.
He was also the director of the diocesan College of Dinan, where he remained up to the time of the Revolution.
For that end she asked for dispensation from enclosure, choir duty, the religious habit and also freedom from diocesan control.
Of course, such men turned a deaf ear to the papal decree about establishing diocesan seminaries; and those who desired them were prevented by their canons, some of whom were not even priests.
His lordship has summoned me on most important diocesan business," said Mr. Slope, glancing with uneasy eye at Dr.
He knew well his patron's strong points, but he knew the weak ones as well; and he rightly guessed that public life would better suit the great man's taste than the small details of diocesan duty.
It was originally drawn up without any view to publication, and was read at more than one of the Conferences held in different parts of London under the auspices of the Diocesan Association of Lay-helpers.
The Diocesan Association of Lay-helpers set out, if I mistake not, with a twofold purpose.
In religion we are fearfully apt to catch at a proxy when we can, and I can imagine some, to whom the very existence of a Diocesan Association of Lay-helpers may act as a sort of indirect excuse for doing nothing themselves.
A few words now about the value of the Diocesan Association as a connecting link among lay-helpers.
Among the seven hundred and thirty-four manuscripts in the municipal library at Bruges, and in the library of the Bruges diocesan seminary, there are some which date from the thirteenth century, a few from the twelfth.
Cistercian nunneries were not subject to Cîteaux, but were visited by theirdiocesan bishop.
Their growth was analogous to that of the Benedictines: each house with its cells was an independent community: their visitor was the diocesan bishop, and very few of their houses became permanently exempt from visitation.
The Diocesan Synod assembled to greet him, and presented an address; and there were daily services and meetings, when great interest was excited, and tangibly proved by the raising of about £250.
My dear Bishop will be touched by the confidence in him shown by his late Diocesan Synod in entrusting to him the nomination of his successor.
Since then the income of this fourth stall has been raised to the level of the others, and the prebendal stall of Cantlers re-endowed, the occupant being the diocesan inspector in religious knowledge.
The earlier Parliaments returned by the first Reform Bill brought about sweeping and ill-considered changes, both diocesan and capitular.
