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- The title "dean" is conferred upon a pastor of a parish who serves as a senior figure, though usually without specific jurisdictional authority, over a section of a diocese. These are sometimes referred to as "rural deans", and are expected to show a degree of leadership among the pastors of the region, known as a deanery.
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A deanery (or decanate) is an ecclesiastical entity in the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Anglican Communion, the Evangelical Church in Germany, and the Church of Norway. A deanery is either the jurisdiction or residence of a dean.
Deaneries – a history Deaneries (originally, rural deaneries) are designated groups of parishes within an archdeaconry who work in partnership with each other to celebrate and to share the Good News of Jesus Christ with the people entrusted to their care. In the middle of the nineteenth century, a deanery was a creature of statute.
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The Church of England believes in the “threefold order of ministry”, which means there are three types of clergy: deacons, priests and bishops. You can be a priest only once you have been ordained a deacon, and you can only become a bishop only if you have been ordained a priest. Deacons are the first rung on the ladder. They can use the title Reve...
Parish The smallest geographical sub-division in the C of E. The whole of England is divided into about 12,500 parishes. Each parish has its own church (occasionally more than one), and has a priest who is responsible for arranging regular services. With more than 16,000 churches, the Church has rarely had enough clergy to give every parish its own...
Liturgy The general name for the form of worship in a service including formal written prayers, readings, and other calls and responses which make up the bulk of a traditional Anglican service. It is foundational for Anglo-Catholics. Most Anglican worship uses liturgy in one form or another apart from the most informal services. Holy communion/the ...
Anglo-Catholic One of the three main groups in the C of E. Anglo-Catholics are so called because they combine Anglicanism with more Roman Catholic traditions and style. They prefer more formal services, with choral music and organs, clergy in robes, incense and bells. They tend to emphasise the tradition of the Church very highly, although in terms...
The Church of England’s calendar is divided into seasons, grouped around important Christian festivals. The traditional beginning is Advent, which starts four Sundays before Christmas at the beginning of December. Then Christmas season begins on the 25 December and runs until 5 January. Epiphany begins on 6 January (it commemorates when the Wise Me...
General synod Effectively the parliament of the Church of England, it meets two or three times a year to pass new laws, scrutinise the national Church leadership and discuss other matters. It is divided into three houses: laity, clergy and bishops. The House of Laity is about 150 people, elected on five-year terms from each diocese, depending on po...
Canon law Canon law is basically the rule book of the C of E, comprising the current ecclesiastical law. Canon Law can be changed only by the general synod and for liturgical changes and doctrinal changes such as the ordination of women bishops, with the agreement of parliament. Consistory courts Each diocese has a consistory court which can hear c...
A dean, in an ecclesiastical context, is a cleric holding certain positions of authority within a religious hierarchy. The title is used mainly in the Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, and many Lutheran denominations. A dean's assistant is called a sub-dean.
It’s called a deanery. The Diocese of Fargo is made up of eight deaneries, which are eight geographical territories with their own boundaries. Each deanery is led by a dean nominated by the priests within that deanery and approved by the bishop. In most cases the dean is an experienced pastor.
The earliest known use of the noun deanery is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for deanery is from before 1440, in Foundation of St. Bartholomew's. deanery is formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: dean n.1, ‑ery suffix.
The Dean of Durham’s residence (until the Reformation, the residence of the Prior) occupies the site of what was the original Monks’ Dormitory.
