An ecclesiastical province is one of the basic forms of jurisdiction in Christian Churches with traditional hierarchical structure, including Western Christianity and Eastern Christianity.In general, an ecclesiastical province consists of several dioceses (or eparchies), one of them being the archdiocese (or archeparchy), headed by a metropolitan bishop or archbishop who has …

Papal supremacy is the doctrine of the Catholic Church that the Pope, by reason of his office as Vicar of Christ, the visible source and foundation of the unity both of the bishops and of the whole company of the faithful, and as pastor of the entire Catholic Church, has full, supreme, and universal power over the whole church, a power which he can always exercise unhindered: that, …

United States. In the United States, concurrent jurisdiction exists to the extent that the United States Constitution permits federal courts to hear actions that can also be heard by state courts.For example, when a party from Alabama sues a party from Florida for a breach of contract, the Alabama party can sue in either federal court (under its diversity jurisdiction) or in …

A notary public (a.k.a. notary or public notary; pl. notaries public) of the common law is a public officer constituted by law to serve the public in non-contentious matters usually concerned with general financial transactions, estates, deeds, powers-of-attorney, and foreign and international business. A notary's main functions are to validate the signature of a person (for purposes of ...

Other usages. The term is used for a special case (or as an exception) of an institutional charter.A charter school, for example, is one that has different rules, regulations, and statutes from a state school.. Charter can be used as a synonym for "hire" or "lease", as in the "charter" of a bus or boat or plane.. A charter member (US English) of an organization is an original member; that is ...

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By the 18th century, the contemporary views of the Holy Roman Empire were far from universally positive. There was a widespread idea that the empire was "sick" in some capacity, for instance the bookseller and publisher Johann Heinrich Zedler mentions the "state illnesses of the Holy Roman Empire" in his 1745 Grosses Universal-Lexicon.This view dates back to at least the …

Its ecclesiastical province included the existing dioceses of Brandenburg and Havelberg and the newly founded dioceses of Merseburg, Zeitz, and Meißen. Lebus was added in 1424. The new archdiocese was close to the unsecured border regions of the Holy Roman Empire and Slavic tribes, and was meant to promote Christianity among the many Slavs and others. Then, on 20 …

Etymology. The word theocracy originates from the Greek word θεοκρατία (theocratia) meaning "the rule of God".This, in turn, derives from θεός (theos), meaning "god", and κρατέω (krateo), meaning "to rule".Thus the meaning of the word in Greek was "rule by god(s)" or human incarnation(s) of god(s).. The term was initially coined by Flavius Josephus in the first century …

Ecclesiastical province: Archdiocese of New York: Headquarters: 795 Main Street Buffalo, New York 14203: Statistics; Area: 16,511 km 2 (6,375 sq mi) Population ... Chemung, and Tioga, were taken from the Diocese of Buffalo and added to the Rochester jurisdiction. Reports of sex abuse and shakeup in leadership. On September 12, 2018, ...