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16-1100: In 2007 it was merged with the city of Haapsalu to establish the Haapsalu urban municipality . Part of the parish is within the Matsalu National Park . Ridala Parish had two small boroughs and 56 villages. Paralepa , Uuemõisa Aamse , Allika , Ammuta , Emmuvere , Erja , Espre , Haeska , Herjava , Hobulaiu , Jõõdre , Kabrametsa , Kadaka , Kaevere , Kiideva , Kiltsi , Kiviküla , Koheri , Koidu , Kolila , Kolu , Käpla , Laheva , Lannuste , Liivaküla , Litu , Lõbe , Metsaküla , Mäeküla , Mägari , Nõmme , Panga , Parila , Puiatu , Puise , Pusku , Põgari-Sassi , Rohense , Rohuküla , Rummu , Saanika , Saardu , Sepaküla , Sinalepa , Suure-Ahli , Tammiku , Tanska , Tuuru , Uneste , Uuemõisa , Valgevälja , Varni , Vilkla , Võnnu , Väike-Ahli , Vätse , Üsse . 58°56′35″N 23°38′42″E  /  58.94306°N 23.64500°E  / 58.94306; 23.64500 This Lääne County location article

32-522: A delicate craft made by local women. Haapsalu has sometimes been called the " Venice of the Baltics " — an apparent exaggeration used mostly to promote the resort town to foreign tourists. Haapsalu is site of a fencing school founded by Estonian fencer Endel Nelis , used as the setting of the Finnish-Estonian film The Fencer . Episcopal see An episcopal see is, in a practical use of

48-544: A recreation centre for children, is set to open in a few years within the town. Wikland, a famous book illustrator, has had a strong bond with Haapsalu since her childhood. The August Blues Festival is held every year in August in Haapsalu. Since 2005, the town hosts Haapsalu Horror and Fantasy Film Festival , an annual film festival dedicated to genre films. In 2017, the pastors of Haapsalu made an open statement calling to end

64-479: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Haapsalu Haapsalu ( Estonian pronunciation: [ˈhɑːpsɑlu] ) is a seaside resort town located on the west coast of Estonia . It is the administrative centre of Lääne County , and on 1 January 2020 it had a population of 9,375. The name "Haapsalu" derives from the Estonian words haab 'aspen' and salu (archaic meaning) 'island'. Until

80-612: Is also used of the town where the cathedral or the bishop's residence is located. Within Catholicism, each diocese is considered to be a see unto itself with a certain allegiance to the See of Rome. The idea of a see as a sovereign entity is somewhat complicated due to the existence of the twenty-three Particular Eastern Catholic Churches . Both the Western Church and its Eastern Catholic counterparts reserve some level of autonomy, yet each also

96-629: Is subdivided into smaller sees (dioceses and archdioceses). The episcopal see of the Pope , the Bishop of Rome, is known as "the Holy See " or "the Apostolic See ", claiming papal supremacy . The Eastern Orthodox Church views all bishops as sacramentally equal, and in principle holding equal authority, each over his own see. Certain bishops may be granted additional administrative duties over wider regions (as in

112-519: The "curative mud" spread quickly amongst the wealthy customers in then capital city Saint Petersburg , and elsewhere in the former Russian Empire. The mud spas were frequented by the Russian imperial Romanov family . For almost 200 years, Haapsalu has been a popular summer destination where people from all around the world come for medical treatment. At present, there are three "mud cure" establishments in Haapsalu. The Land of Ilon Wikland ( Wiklandia ),

128-610: The Annual Conference's largest, or sometimes most centrally located, city. Annual Conferences are the regional bodies which are the fundamental basic bodies of which the United Methodist Global Connection is composed. Annual Conferences are responsible for many matters, including the approval, election and ordination of clergy, who then become members of the Annual Conference in which they are elected and ordained and – with some exceptions – serve within

144-516: The bounds of for the tenure of their ministries. United Methodist Bishops are elected in larger regional conclaves every four years which are known as Jurisdictional Conferences . These super-regional Jurisdictional Conferences comprise an equal number of lay and clergy delegates from each Annual Conference, each delegation determined by the size of the Annual Conference, within the Jurisdiction, and new bishops are elected and consecrated from among

160-535: The capital of the Bishopric of Ösel-Wiek , which it remained for the following three centuries. Buildings from those early days remain today, including an episcopal castle which has the largest single- nave church in Estonia. There are six neighborhoods of Haapsalu: The sea mud in Haapsalu is claimed to have a curative effect. A military doctor, Carl Abraham Hunnius , founded the first mud cure resort in 1825. News of

176-435: The city's financing of the festival, claiming the horror and violence depicted in the screened films were not fit to represent the resort town image. The same year the festival was held to a record-breaking attendance. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1867 wrote a suite of three pieces for piano during his stay in Haapsalu, titled Souvenir de Hapsal . In the 19th century, the town became famous for its " Haapsalu shawls ",

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192-536: The clergy of the Jurisdiction's Annual Conferences. These bishops who are elected for life, are then sent to lead the various Annual Conferences of the Jurisdiction. Episcopal candidates are usually – although not always – the first clergy delegate elected from a particular Annual Conference. Each bishop is assigned to and leads for four year terms an Episcopal area, or see, of each Annual Conference. An Episcopal area can also comprise more than one Annual Conference when two smaller Annual Conferences agree to share

208-507: The earliest symbol of the bishop's authority. This symbolic chair is also known as the bishop's cathedra . The church in which it is placed is for that reason called the bishop's cathedral , from Latin ecclesia cathedralis , meaning the 'church of the cathedra '. The word throne is also used, especially in the Eastern Orthodox Church , both for the chair and for the area of ecclesiastical jurisdiction. The term see

224-573: The first half of the 20th century, in Swedish and German the town was called Hapsal . Haapsalu and the surrounding area was the center for the Estonian Swedes from the 13th century until the evacuation of almost all ethnic Swedes from Estonia prior to the Soviet invasion of Estonia during World War II in 1944. The first written record of Hapsal dates back to 1279, when the town was chartered and became

240-518: The idea of the Pentarchy ), but these powers are limited and never extend over the entire Church. Thus, the Eastern Orthodox oppose the idea of papal supremacy or any similar supremacy by any one bishop. The United Methodist Church is divided into Annual Conferences , each one of which is presided over by a resident bishop, who is bishop of a named Episcopal Area , or See city. This is usually

256-400: The phrase, the area of a bishop 's ecclesiastical jurisdiction . Phrases concerning actions occurring within or outside an episcopal see are indicative of the geographical significance of the term, making it synonymous with diocese . The word see is derived from Latin sedes , which in its original or proper sense denotes the seat or chair that, in the case of a bishop, is

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