1. (Ecclesiastical Terms) (in the Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Greek Orthodox Churches) a clergyman having spiritual and administrative powers over a diocese or province of the Church. See also suffragan 2. (Ecclesiastical Terms) (in some Protestant Churches) a spiritual overseer of a local ...
A recent case in point was a hit piece done by the Florida Catholic from Newchurch's Orlando diocese. It seems that the large number of Hispanic immigrants in Florida are gravitating to traditional Catholic churches because they don't believe the New Order to be Catholic. What is particularl...
There are churches where the entire congregation says Mass with the priest;…where the priest sometimes talks to the people instead of saying Mass. What we have catalogued is just a tiny sampling of the kind of thing that occurs in every diocese in the world where the New Mass is ...
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