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The Catholic Encyclopedia

Archdiocese

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Charles G. Herbermann and others (editors)

Transcribed from a dated scan; artifacts may remain. Edition notes

Archdiocese (Apxidi0lknos, Archdiocese). This term does not designate an ecclesiastical province, but only that diocese of the province which is the archbishop’s own, and over which he holds immediate and exclusive jurisdiction.

Ferraris, Bibliotheca Canonica, etc; WERNZ, Jus Decretalium, II, tit. 34; SMITH, Elements of Ecclesiastical Law, I; Puruuies, Kirchenrecht, VI; SILBERNAGL, Verfasswng und Beshtand sämtlichber Kirchen des Orients (1904); Concilii Plenarii Balt. II Acta et Decreta, tit. III; Santi, Prælectiones Juris Canonici, t. I; Gerarchia Cattolica (Roma, 1906).

Trans. None. Written in English by the contributors whose signatures close each article., The Catholic Encyclopedia, An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church, in fifteen volumes, 1907. Public domain.

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