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Diocese and Parish

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Difference between Diocese and Parish

Diocese vs. Parish

The word diocese is derived from the Greek term διοίκησις meaning "administration". A parish is a church territorial entity constituting a division within a diocese.

Similarities between Diocese and Parish

Diocese and Parish have 18 things in common (in Unionpedia): African Methodist Episcopal Church, Anglican Communion, Catholic Church, Catholic particular churches and liturgical rites, Church of England, Church of Scotland, Eastern Catholic Churches, Eastern Orthodox Church, Episcopal area (United Methodist Church), Episcopal polity, Governance of the Methodist Church of Great Britain, Lutheranism, Parish, Personal ordinariate, Presbyterianism, Reformation, Territorial entity, United Methodist Church.

African Methodist Episcopal Church

The African Methodist Episcopal Church, usually called the A.M.E. Church or AME, is a predominantly African-American Methodist denomination based in the United States.

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Anglican Communion

The Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion with 85 million members, founded in 1867 in London, England.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Catholic particular churches and liturgical rites

A particular church (ecclesia particularis) is a hierarchically ordered ecclesiastical community of faithful headed by a bishop (or equivalent), as defined by Catholic canon law and ecclesiology.

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Church of England

The Church of England (C of E) is the state church of England.

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Church of Scotland

The Church of Scotland (The Scots Kirk, Eaglais na h-Alba), known informally by its Scots language name, the Kirk, is the national church of Scotland.

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Eastern Catholic Churches

The Eastern Catholic Churches or Oriental Catholic Churches, also called the Eastern-rite Catholic Churches, and in some historical cases Uniate Churches, are twenty-three Eastern Christian particular churches sui iuris in full communion with the Pope in Rome, as part of the worldwide Catholic Church.

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Eastern Orthodox Church

The Eastern Orthodox Church, also known as the Orthodox Church, or officially as the Orthodox Catholic Church, is the second-largest Christian Church, with over 250 million members.

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Episcopal area (United Methodist Church)

An Episcopal Area in the United Methodist Church (UMC) is a basic unit of this denomination.

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Episcopal polity

An episcopal polity is a hierarchical form of church governance ("ecclesiastical polity") in which the chief local authorities are called bishops.

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Governance of the Methodist Church of Great Britain

Governance of the Methodist Church of Great Britain is based on the principle of connexionalism—a highly centralised structure.

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Lutheranism

Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestant Christianity which identifies with the theology of Martin Luther (1483–1546), a German friar, ecclesiastical reformer and theologian.

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Parish

A parish is a church territorial entity constituting a division within a diocese.

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Personal ordinariate

A personal ordinariate, sometimes called a "personal ordinariate for former Anglicans" or more informally an "Anglican ordinariate", is a canonical structure within the Catholic Church established in accordance with the apostolic constitution Anglicanorum coetibus of 4 November 2009 and its complementary norms.

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Presbyterianism

Presbyterianism is a part of the reformed tradition within Protestantism which traces its origins to Britain, particularly Scotland, and Ireland.

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Reformation

The Reformation (or, more fully, the Protestant Reformation; also, the European Reformation) was a schism in Western Christianity initiated by Martin Luther and continued by Huldrych Zwingli, John Calvin and other Protestant Reformers in 16th century Europe.

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Territorial entity

A territorial entity is an entity that covers a part of the surface of the Earth with specified borders.

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United Methodist Church

The United Methodist Church (UMC) is a mainline Protestant denomination and a major part of Methodism.

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Diocese and Parish Comparison

Diocese has 76 relations, while Parish has 79. As they have in common 18, the Jaccard index is 11.61% = 18 / (76 + 79).

References

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