The Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria is the highest Orthodox authority in the Coptic Orthodox Church.It formulates the rules and regulations regarding matters of the Church's organisation and faith. The synod is chaired by the patriarch of Alexandria and the members are the Church's metropolitan archbishops, metropolitan bishops, diocesan bishops, …

The following is a list of the Catholic cathedrals in the United States.The Catholic Church in the United States comprises ecclesiastical territories called dioceses led by prelate bishops.Each bishop is assigned to a cathedral from which he is pastor to the people of his diocese. Some dioceses also have a co-cathedral or a pro-cathedral.This is a complete list of the 193 …

A canon (from the Latin canonicus, itself derived from the Greek κανονικός, kanonikós, "relating to a rule", "regular") is a member of certain bodies in subject to an ecclesiastical rule.. Originally, a canon was a cleric living with others in a clergy house or, later, in one of the houses within the precinct of or close to a cathedral or other major church and conducting his life ...

Monsignor (/ m ɒ n ˈ s iː n j ər /; Italian: monsignore [monsiɲˈɲoːre]) is an honorific form of address or title for certain male clergy members, usually members of the Roman Catholic Church.Monsignor is the apocopic form of the Italian monsignore, meaning "my lord"."Monsignor" can be abbreviated as Mons or Msgr. In some countries, the title …

A diocesan bishop, within various Christian traditions, is a bishop or archbishop in pastoral charge of a diocese or archdiocese.In relation to other bishops, a diocesan bishop may be a suffragan, a metropolitan (if an archbishop) or a primate.They may also hold various other positions such as being a cardinal or patriarch.. Titular bishops in the Roman Catholic Church …

Rab [ɾâːb] (Dalmatian: Arba, Latin: Arba, Italian: Arbe, German: Arbey) is an island in the northern Dalmatia region in Croatia, located just off the northern Croatian coast in the Adriatic Sea.. The island is 22 km (14 mi) long, has an area of 93.6 km 2 (36 sq mi) and 9,328 inhabitants (2011). The main settlement on the island is the eponymous town of Rab, although the neighboring …

The hierarchy of the Catholic Church consists of its bishops, priests, and deacons. In the ecclesiological sense of the term, "hierarchy" strictly means the "holy ordering" of the Church, the Body of Christ, so to respect the diversity of gifts and ministries necessary for genuine unity ().. In canonical and general usage, it refers to those who exercise authority within a Christian church.

The Summer of Love was a social phenomenon that occurred during the summer of 1967, when as many as 100,000 people, mostly young people sporting hippie fashions of dress and behavior, converged in San Francisco's neighborhood of Haight-Ashbury. More broadly, the Summer of Love encompassed the hippie music, hallucinogenic drugs, anti-war, and free-love scene …

The following is the order of precedence in England and Wales as of November 2022. Separate orders exist for men and women.. Names in italics indicate that these people rank elsewhere—either higher in that table of precedence or in the table for the other sex.

Copts, many of whom are adherents of the Coptic Orthodox Church, began migrating to the United States of America in the late 1940s.After 1952, the rate of Coptic immigration from Egypt to the United States increased. The first Coptic church in the United States, St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Church, was established in the late 1960s in Jersey City. ...