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62-675: The Council of Lyons in 1274 emphasized the need for the faithful to have a special devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus . The Dominicans , who were actively spreading the Christian message at this time in a crusade against the Albegensians took on the challenge and preached the power of the Holy Name of Jesus. They spread the devotion extremely effectively. In every Dominican church, altars, confraternities and societies were erected everywhere in honour of

124-698: A dean or vicar forane , or in some cases by an archpriest . Some churches of the Anglican Communion have deaneries as units of an archdeaconry . An outstation is a newly-created congregation, a term usually used where the church is evangelical , or a mission and particularly in African countries, but also historically in Australia. They exist mostly within the Catholic and Anglican parishes. The Anglican Diocese of Cameroon describes their outstations as

186-410: A rectory , parish hall , parochial school , or convent , frequently located on the same campus or adjacent to the church. Normally, a parish comprises all Catholics living within its geographically defined area, but non-territorial parishes can also be established within a defined area on a personal basis for Catholics belonging to a particular rite , language, nationality, or community. An example

248-463: A vicar or rector , owing to the vagaries of the feudal tithe system: rectories usually having had greater income) and perhaps supported by one or more curates or deacons - although as a result of ecclesiastical pluralism some parish priests might have held more than one parish living , placing a curate in charge of those where they do not reside. Now, however, it is common for a number of neighbouring parishes to be placed under one benefice in

310-481: A civil parish and is formally recognised as the level of local government below a district council . The traditional structure of the Church of England with the parish as the basic unit has been exported to other countries and churches throughout the Anglican Communion and Commonwealth but does not necessarily continue to be administered in the same way. The parish is also the basic level of church administration in

372-513: A crusade ( passagium generale ) to recover the Holy Land, which was to be financed by a tithe imposed for six years on all the benefices of Christendom. The plans were approved but nothing concrete was done. James I of Aragon wished to organize the expedition at once, but this was opposed by the Knights Templar . The Franciscan friar Fidentius of Padua , who had experience in the Holy Land,

434-508: A man's head, surmounting a rayed halo, with a small Latin cross before his mouth. The motto of the Society is "Hallowed be Thy Name," which sits on the bottom rim of the symbol, the top rim having the letters "HNS," referring to the initials of the Society. The apostolate of the society is to assist in parish ministries by performing the Corporal Works of Mercy : to feed the hungry, to clothe

496-568: A novice member if they reside in an area where there is no active Parish, Deanery or (Arch)diocesan Holy Name Society. During a novitiate (trial period), candidates undergo an orientation period where they learn the history, purpose, mission, Spiritual Benefits of membership, the Obligations of Membership, and the Holy Name Pledge. "They should be given a copy of the Constitution and By-Laws of

558-406: A parish may be subdivided as a chapelry , with a chapel of ease or filial church serving as the local place of worship in cases of difficulty to access the main parish church. In the wider picture of ecclesiastical polity, a parish comprises a division of a diocese or see . Parishes within a diocese may be grouped into a deanery or vicariate forane (or simply vicariate ), overseen by

620-554: A publication now in the public domain :  Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). " Society of the Holy Name ". Catholic Encyclopedia . New York: Robert Appleton Company. Second Council of Lyon The Second Council of Lyon was the fourteenth ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church , convoked on 31 March 1272 and convened in Lyon , Kingdom of Arles (in modern France), in 1274. Pope Gregory X presided over

682-618: A review into the organisation of the Church and make recommendations as to its future shape. The group published its report ("Church in Wales Review") in July 2012 and proposed that parishes should be reorganised into larger Ministry Areas (Ardaloedd Gweinidogaeth). It stated that: "The parish system... is no longer sustainable" and suggested that the Ministry Areas should each have a leadership team containing lay people as well as clergy, following

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744-433: A subsidiary place of worship to the main parish church. In England civil parishes and their governing parish councils evolved in the 19th century as ecclesiastical parishes began to be relieved of what became considered to be civic responsibilities. Thus their boundaries began to diverge. The word "parish" acquired a secular usage. Since 1895, a parish council elected by public vote or a (civil) parish meeting administers

806-752: A vast program to launch the Crusade, which was written down in his "Constitutions for the zeal of the faith". This text puts forward four main decisions to accomplish the Crusade: the imposition of a new tax during three years, the interdiction of any kind of trade with the Saracens , the supply of ships by the Italian maritime Republics, and the alliance of the West with Byzantium and the Il-Khan Abagha. However, despite papal plans, there

868-482: A very simple structure. The parish priest visits as often as possible. If and when the community has grown enough, the outstation may become a parish and have a parish priest assigned to it. In the Catholic Church, each parish normally has its own parish priest (in some countries called pastor or provost ), who has responsibility and canonical authority over the parish. What in most English-speaking countries

930-552: Is termed the "parish priest" is referred to as the "pastor" in the United States , where the term "parish priest" is used of any priest assigned to a parish even in a subordinate capacity. These are called "assistant priests", "parochial vicars", " curates ", or, in the United States, "associate pastors" and "assistant pastors". Each diocese (administrative region) is divided into parishes, each with their own central church called

992-533: Is that of personal parishes established in accordance with the 7 July 2007 motu proprio Summorum Pontificum for those attached to the pre- Vatican II liturgy. The Church of England 's geographical structure uses the local parish church as its basic unit. The parish system survived the Reformation with the Anglican Church's secession from Rome remaining largely untouched; thus, it shares its roots with

1054-557: Is the basis of present legislation on papal elections. Finally, the council dealt with the Imperial throne, which Alfonso X of Castile claimed. His claim was disallowed by the Pope, and Rudolph I was proclaimed King of the Romans and future emperor on 6 June 1274. Parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese . A parish

1116-407: Is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest , often termed a parish priest , who might be assisted by one or more curates , and who operates from a parish church . Historically, a parish often covered the same geographical area as a manor . Its association with the parish church remains paramount. By extension the term parish refers not only to the territorial entity but to

1178-464: The Ancient Greek : παροικία , romanized :  paroikia , "sojourning in a foreign land", itself from πάροικος ( paroikos ), "dwelling beside, stranger, sojourner", which is a compound of παρά ( pará ), "beside, by, near" and οἶκος ( oîkos ), "house". As an ancient concept, the term "parish" occurs in the long-established Christian denominations: Catholic , Anglican Communion ,

1240-547: The Catholic Church 's system described below. Parishes may extend into different counties or hundreds and historically many parishes comprised extra outlying portions in addition to its principal district, usually being described as 'detached' and intermixed with the lands of other parishes. Church of England parishes nowadays all lie within one of 42 dioceses divided between the provinces of Canterbury , 30 and York , 12. Each parish normally has its own parish priest (either

1302-561: The Church of Scotland . Spiritual oversight of each parish church in Scotland is responsibility of the congregation's Kirk Session . Patronage was regulated in 1711 ( Patronage Act ) and abolished in 1874, with the result that ministers must be elected by members of the congregation. Many parish churches in Scotland today are "linked" with neighbouring parish churches served by a single minister. Since

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1364-587: The Eastern Orthodox Church , and Lutheran churches, and in some Methodist , Congregationalist and Presbyterian administrations. The eighth Archbishop of Canterbury Theodore of Tarsus (c. 602–690) appended the parish structure to the Anglo-Saxon township unit, where it existed, and where minsters catered to the surrounding district. Broadly speaking, the parish is the standard unit in episcopal polity of church administration, although parts of

1426-554: The Filioque clause sung three times. The council was seemingly a success, but did not provide a lasting solution to the schism; the Emperor was anxious to heal the schism, but the Eastern clergy opposed the decisions of the council. Patriarch Joseph of Constantinople abdicated, and was replaced by John Bekkos , a convert to the cause of union. In spite of a sustained campaign by Bekkos to defend

1488-509: The First Council of Lyon , Thomas Cantilupe was an English attendee and a papal chaplain . In addition to Aragon , which James represented in person, representatives of the kings of Germany , England , Scotland , France , the Spains and Sicily were present, with procurators also representing the kingdoms of Norway , Sweden , Hungary , Bohemia , Poland , and the "realm of Dacia". In

1550-455: The Holy See , most recently the sede vacante that had lasted from the death of Clement IV , 29 November 1268, until Gregory's election, 1 September 1271. The council decided that in future the cardinals should not leave the conclave until they had elected a pope. This decision was suspended in 1276 by Pope Adrian V , and then revoked by Pope John XXI . It has since been re-established, and

1612-605: The Qaghan . According to Richardus, Hulagu had also prohibited the molestation of Frank establishments, and had committed to return Jerusalem to the Franks. Richardus told the assembly that even after Hulagu's death, Abaqa was still determined to drive the Mamluks from Syria. At the council, Pope Gregory promulgated a new Crusade to start in 1278 in liaison with the Mongols. The Pope put in place

1674-472: The United States . Australia has several branches; however numbers have dwindled in comparison to the numbers of the 1950s, when membership numbered in excess of 100,000. The Society had a brief revival beginning in 1998, when the society was canonically erected in Melbourne with ecclesiastical approval, although no subsequent branches have been erected. [REDACTED]  This article incorporates text from

1736-483: The abolition of parishes as a unit of civil government in Scotland in 1929, Scottish parishes have purely ecclesiastical significance and the boundaries may be adjusted by the local Presbytery. The Church in Wales was disestablished in 1920 and is made up of six dioceses. It retained the parish system and parishes were also civil administration areas until communities were established in 1974, but did not necessarily share

1798-450: The parish church , where religious services take place. Some larger parishes or parishes that have been combined under one parish priest may have two or more such churches, or the parish may be responsible for chapels (or chapels of ease ) located at some distance from the mother church for the convenience of distant parishioners. In addition to a parish church, each parish may maintain auxiliary organizations and their facilities such as

1860-566: The "Confraternity of the Holy Name of God" and the "Society of the Name of Jesus" in his document Pretiosus . The two confraternities were essentially merged under the name "The Confraternity of the most Holy Names of God and Jesus", and exclusive rights to their governance were given to the Dominicans. In order to establish a local Society of the Holy Name, approval must be granted by the Dominican order, in

1922-586: The Holy Name Society, however, works with Prison Community in the State of Pennsylvania (USA), and has been doing so for the past 23 years. The other cause sought by the Society is the canonization of Blessed John of Vercelli , for which prayers are said at all meetings of the society. He is considered to be the "Founding Father" of the Holy Name Society, as it was he who volunteered the Dominican Order for

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1984-612: The Holy Name of God merged with the "Confraternity of the Most Holy Name Jesus", maintaining the rule laid down by Didacus. The society was thereafter also known under the title of the "Confraternity Against Oaths". Several Popes following Pius IV in the 16th and 17th centuries also made the Confraternity an object of special preference, including, most notably Pope Innocent IX who strongly encouraged its promotion and issued orders regulating its organisation. The next major step in

2046-437: The Holy Name. The devotion grew rapidly with the preaching of the Dominican order and several saints (including Bernardino of Siena , a Franciscan , and John of Capistrano ). The devotion and confraternities were given further impetus by several grants of indulgence by Pope Boniface IX and Pope Julius II . The first Holy Name Society in the modern sense was founded in the early 15th century by Didacus of Victoria, one of

2108-635: The Parish Society so they fully understand the purpose of the Confraternity and how it is governed. During their novitiate ... novice-members should demonstrate their sincerity and commitment by attending all spiritual conferences, devotional activities, and assemblies." A candidate becomes a full member after undergoing the Induction Ceremony, which is typically conducted on the Feast of the most Holy Name of Jesus, January 3, with their name being entered into

2170-406: The Pope and to be a full member of the Catholic Church; to believe the Church's teachings, and to teach others of them; and to receive the sacraments regularly, pray often and perform works of physical and mental mortification on a regular basis. Following the solemn promises, members receive the handbook and a blessed token of the Society (usually a lapel pin). The Society makes use of a symbol of

2232-568: The Society's Official Register. This ceremony, which is typically carried out on the Feast of the Holy Name (January 3), consists of a profession of faith in a parish society chartered to the Dominican Order , as well as a series of solemn promises. These promises are to observe the Society's rules and constitutions; to love and respect the Holy Name; to abstain from blasphemy; to reverence Divine law and to respect civil law and civil authority; to love

2294-653: The blessing of God" and of the Pope . Among others who attended the council were James I of Aragon , the ambassador of the Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos with members of the Greek clergy and the ambassadors of Abaqa Khan of the Ilkhanate . Thomas Aquinas had been summoned to the council, but died en route at Fossanova Abbey . Bonaventure was present at the first four sessions but died at Lyon on 15 July 1274. As at

2356-449: The charge of a priest who conducts services by rotation, with additional services being provided by lay readers or other non-ordained members of the church community. A chapelry was a subdivision of an ecclesiastical parish in England , and parts of Lowland Scotland up to the mid 19th century. It had a similar status to a township but was so named as it had a chapel which acted as

2418-672: The committee of every local congregation that handles staff support is referred to as the committee on Pastor-Parish Relations. This committee gives recommendations to the bishop on behalf of the parish/congregation since it is the United Methodist Bishop of the episcopal area who appoints a pastor to each congregation. The same is true in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church . In New Zealand,

2480-530: The council were the conquest of the Holy Land and the union of the Eastern and Western Churches. The first session took place on 7 May 1274 and was followed by five additional sessions on 18 May 1274, 4 or 7 June 1274, 6 July 1274, 16 July 1274, and 17 July 1274. By the end of the council, 31 constitutions were promulgated. In the second session, the fathers approved the decree Zelus fidei , which contained no juridical statutes but rather summed up constitutions about

2542-487: The council, called to act on a pledge by Byzantine emperor Michael VIII to reunite the Eastern church with the West. The council was attended by about 300 bishops , 60 abbots and more than a thousand prelates or their procurators , among whom were the representatives of the universities. Due to the great number of attendees, those who had come to Lyon without being specifically summoned were given "leave to depart with

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2604-492: The day of judgment "all" men will be brought together with their bodies "before the tribunal of Christ" "to render an account" of their own deeds (Rm 14,10). The council dealt with the reform of the Church, regarding which Gregory had sent out inquiries. Several bishops and abbots were deposed for unworthiness, and some mendicant orders were suppressed. On the other hand, the two new orders of Dominicans and Franciscans were approved. There had been several lengthy vacancies of

2666-506: The duty of promoting devotion to the Holy Name at the Second Council of Lyon in 1274 (due to the death of Thomas Aquinas on his way to the council). He was a learned man, heavily involved in the Council. He was, amongst other things, nearly elected pope, and had been Master General of the Dominican Order. The Holy Name Society is found in other countries also, although not as strongly as in

2728-608: The embassy were David of Ashby , and the clerk Rychaldus . According to one chronicler, "The Mongols came, not because of the Faith, but to conclude an alliance with the Christians". Abaqa's Latin secretary Rychaldus delivered a report to the council, which outlined previous European-Ilkhanid relations under Abaqa's father, Hulagu , where after welcoming the Christian ambassadors to his court, Hulagu had agreed to exempt Latin Christians from taxes and charges, in exchange for their prayers for

2790-414: The form of Letters patent . Until the conciliar reforms of the 1970s, the Holy Name Society was a society for men. While some parish Holy Name societies are still all-male, the Holy Name Society as a whole now welcomes both Catholic men and women. Membership is open to practicing Catholic men over the age of 18. Membership in the Holy Name Society is typically at the parish level. A candidate may join as

2852-475: The formation of the modern society came on June 21, 1571, when St. Pius V issued his Motu proprio " Decet Romanum ", which restricted the canonical erection of the confraternity entirely to the jurisdiction of the Dominican Order and formally recognised "The Confraternity of the Most Holy Names of God". A final merger came on May 26, 1727, when Pope Benedict XIII confirmed the various privileges on both

2914-466: The greatest preachers of the devotion to the Divine Name. He founded the "Society of the Holy Name of God" and created a rule for its governance whose purpose "was to suppress the horrible profanation of the Divine Name by blasphemers, perjurers, and by men in their ordinary conversation." Long after Didacus' death in 1450, Pope Pius IV approved the society on April 13, 1564. In later years, the Society of

2976-572: The issue of the Filioque (two words added to the Nicene Creed ), and union was proclaimed, but the union was later repudiated by Andronicus II , heir to Michael VIII. The council also recognized Rudolf I as Holy Roman Emperor , ending the interregnum . Wishing to end the Great Schism that divided the Catholic Church from Eastern Orthodoxy , Pope Gregory X sent an embassy to Michael VIII , who had reconquered Constantinople, putting an end to

3038-516: The naked, give drink to the thirsty, shelter to the homeless, tend the sick, visit those in prison, and bury the dead; as well as the Spiritual Works of Mercy: to convert sinners, instruct the ignorant, counsel the wayward, comfort the sorrowing, bear adversity patiently, forgive offenses, and pray for the living and the dead. The Society performs these in a specific way at a local level by working on Archdiocesan projects. The National Association of

3100-412: The offerings of the living faithful are of advantage to these, namely, the sacrifices of Masses, prayers, alms, and other duties of piety, which have customarily been performed by the faithful for the other faithful according to the regulations of the Church. 857 However, the souls of those who after having received holy baptism have incurred no stain of sin whatever, also those souls who, after contracting

3162-566: The people of its community or congregation as well as to church property within it. In England this church property was technically in ownership of the parish priest ex officio , vested in him on his institution to that parish. First attested in English in the late 13th century, the word parish comes from the Old French paroisse , in turn from Latin : paroecia , the Romanisation of

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3224-470: The perils of the Holy Land , the means for paying for a proposed crusade , the excommunication of pirates and corsairs and those who protected them or traded with them, a declaration of peace among Christians, a grant of an indulgence for those willing to go on crusade, restoration of communion with the Greeks, and the definition of the order and procedure to be observed in the council. The Greeks conceded on

3286-694: The principles of 'collaborative ministry'. Over the next decade, the six dioceses all implemented the report, with the final Ministry Areas being instituted in 2022. In the Diocese of St Asaph (Llanelwy), they are known as Mission Areas (Ardaloedd Cenhadaeth) In the United Methodist Church congregations are called parishes, though they are more often simply called congregations and have no geographic boundaries. A prominent example of this usage comes in The Book of Discipline of The United Methodist Church , in which

3348-474: The procedures to be observed in the council, for the first time the nations appeared as represented elements in an ecclesiastical council, as they had already become represented in the governing of medieval universities . This innovation marks a stepping-stone towards the acknowledgment of coherent ideas of nationhood, which were in the process of creating the European nation-states . The main topics discussed at

3410-620: The remnants of the Latin Empire in the East, and he asked Latin despots in the East to curb their ambitions. Eastern dignitaries arrived at Lyon on 24 June 1274 presenting a letter from the Emperor. On 29 June 1274 (the Feast of Peter and Paul, patronal feast of the popes), Gregory celebrated Mass in St John's Church where both sides took part. The Greeks read the Nicene Creed , with the Western addition of

3472-402: The result of outreach work "initiated, sponsored and supervised by the mother parishes". Once there is a big enough group of worshippers in the same place, the outstation in named by the bishop of the diocese. They are run by " catechists /evangelists" or lay readers, and supervised by the creator parish or archdeaconry . Outstations are not self-supporting, and in poor areas often consist of

3534-513: The same boundaries. The reduction in the numbers of worshippers, and the increasing costs of maintaining often ancient buildings, led over time to parish reorganisation, parish groupings and Rectorial Benefices (merged parishes led by a Rector). In 2010, the Church in Wales engaged the Rt Rev Richard Harries (Lord Harries of Pentregarth), a former Church of England Bishop of Oxford; Prof Charles Handy; and Prof Patricia Peattie, to carry out

3596-411: The stain of sin, either while remaining in their bodies or being divested of them, have been cleansed, as we have said above, are received immediately into heaven. 858 The souls of those who die in mortal sin or with original sin only, however, immediately descend to hell, yet to be punished with different punishments. The same most holy Roman Church firmly believes and firmly declares that nevertheless on

3658-552: The true resurrection of this flesh, which now we bear, and in eternal life… 855 …(the Church) says and teaches that those who after baptism slip into sin must not be rebaptized, but by true penance attain forgiveness of their sins. 856 Because if they die truly repentant in charity before they have made satisfaction by worthy fruits of penance for (sins) committed and omitted, their souls are cleansed after death by purgatorical or purifying punishments…. And to relieve punishments of this kind,

3720-506: The union intellectually, and vigorous and brutal repression of opponents by Michael, the vast majority of Byzantine Christians remained implacably opposed to union with the Latin "heretics". Michael's death in December 1282 put an end to the union of Lyons. His son and successor Andronicus II repudiated the union in the Council of Blachernae (1285) , and Bekkos was forced to abdicate, being eventually exiled and imprisoned under house arrest until his death in 1297. The council drew up plans for

3782-408: Was commissioned by the pope to write a report on the recovery of the Holy Land . Ambassadors of the Khan of the Tatars negotiated with the Pope, who asked them to leave Christians in peace during their war against Islam . The Mongol leader Abaqa Khan sent a delegation of 13 -16 Mongols to the council, which created a great stir, particularly when their leader underwent a public baptism . Among

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3844-467: Was little support from European monarchs, who at this point were more likely to give lip service to the idea of a Crusade than to commit actual troops. The Pope's death in 1276 put an end to any such plans, and the money that had been gathered was instead distributed in Italy. Basic Catholic teaching on Purgatory was defined for the first time. In the English version of Denzinger's Sources of Catholic Dogma these are given as: 854 …We believe also in

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