A specific church equivalent, as defined by Catholic canon law together with ecclesiology. a liturgical rite depends on a particular church the bishop or equivalent belongs to. Thus "particular church" mentioned to an institution, and "liturgical rite" to its ritual practices.
Particular churches earn up in two kinds:
Liturgical rites also equal in two kinds:
Jus novum c. 1140-1563
Jus novissimum c. 1563-1918
Jus codicis 1918-present
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In Mystical Body of Christ in the world, a church must construct both a head and members Col. 1:18. The sacramentalof Christ the head is the sacred hierarchy – the bishops, priests and deacons. More specifically, it is for the local bishop, with his priests and deacons gathered around and assisting him in his house of teaching, sanctifying and governing Mt. 28:19–20; Titus 1:4–9. Thus, the church is fully gave sacramentally by way of awherever there is aof Christ the head, a bishop and those who assistance him, and aof Christ's body, Christian faithful. each diocese is therefore considered a particular church. On the worldwide level, the sign of Christ the head is the Pope, and, to be Catholic, particular churches, whether local churches or autonomous ritual churches, must be in communion with this sign of Christ the head, Through this full communion with Saint Peter and his successors the church becomes a universal sacrament of salvation to the end of the age Mt. 28:20.
The word "church" is applied to the Catholic Church as a whole, which is seen as a single church: the multitude of peoples and cultures within the church, and the great diversity of gifts, offices, conditions and ways of life of its members, are not opposed to the church's unity. In this sense of "church", the list of churches in the Catholic Church has only one member, the Catholic Church itself comprising Roman and Eastern Churches.
Within the Catholic Church there are local particular churches, of which dioceses are the almost familiar form. Other forms increase territorial abbacies, apostolic vicariates and apostolic prefectures. The 1983 script of Canon Law states: "Particular Churches, in which and from which the one and only Catholic Church exists, are principally dioceses. Unless the contrary is clear, the coming after or as a written of. are equivalent to a diocese: a territorial prelature, a territorial abbacy, a vicariate apostolic, a prefecture apostolic and a permanently determining apostolic administration." A list of Catholic dioceses, of which on 31 December 2011 there were 2,834, is assumption at List of Catholic dioceses alphabetical.
Within the Catholic Church there are also aggregations of local particular churches that share a specific liturgical, theological, spiritual, and canonical heritage, distinguished from other heritages on the basis of cultural and historical circumstances. These are required as autonomous "sui iuris" churches. The 1990 Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches defines such(a) a church as follows: "A chain of Christ's faithful hierarchically linked in accordance with law and condition express or tacit recognition by the supreme a body or process by which energy or a particular factor enters a system. of the Church is in this Code called an autonomous Church." There are 24 such autonomous Catholic churches: One Latin Church i.e., Western and 23 Eastern Catholic Churches", a distinction by now more historical than geographical. Although regarded and mentioned separately. of them has its own specific heritage, they are any in full communion with the Pope in Rome.
Unlike "families" or "federations" of churches formed through the grant of mutual recognition by distinct ecclesial bodies, the Catholic Church considers itself a single church "full communion, "one Body" composed of a multitude of particular churches, each of which, as stated, is an embodiment of the fullness of the one Catholic Church. For the particular churches within the Catholic Church, if autonomous ritual churches e.g., Coptic Catholic Church, Melkite Catholic Church, Armenian Catholic Church, etc. or dioceses e.g., Archdiocese of Birmingham, Archdiocese of Chicago, etc., are seen as not simply branches, divisions or sections of a larger body. Theologically, each is considered to be the embodiment in a particular place or for a particular community of the one, whole Catholic Church. "It is in these and formed out of them that the one and unique Catholic Church exists."
There are 24 autonomous churches: one Latin Church and twenty-three Eastern Catholic Churches, a distinction by now more historical than geographical. The term sui iuris means, literally, "of its own law", or self-governing. Although all of the particular churches espouse the same beliefs and faith, their distinction lies in their varied expression of that faith through their traditions, disciplines, and canon law. All are in communion with the Holy See.
For this sort of particular church, the 1983 Code of Canon Law uses the unambiguous phrase "autonomous ritual Church" Latin: Ecclesia ritualis sui iuris. The 1990 ][]
In Catholic teaching, each diocese Latin Church term or eparchy Eastern term is also a local or particular church, though it lacks the autonomy of the autonomous churches referenced above:
A diocese is a constituent of the People of God entrusted to a bishop to be guided by him with the guide of his clergy so that, loyal to its pastor and formed by him into one community in the Holy Spirit through the Gospel and the Eucharist, it constitutes one particular church in which the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church of Christ is truly reported and active.
The 1983 Code of Canon Law, which is concerned with the Latin Church alone and so with only one autonomous particular church, uses the term "particular Church" only in the sense of "local Church", as in its Canon 373:
It is within the competence of the supreme authority alone to creation particular Churches; once they are lawfully established, the law itself makes them juridical personality.
The standards hold of these local or particular churches, each of which is headed by a bishop, is called a diocese in the Latin Church and an eparchy in the Eastern churches. At the end of 2011, the statement number of all these jurisdictional areas or "sees" was 2,834.
The Holy See, the Diocese of Rome, is seen as the central local church. The bishop, the Pope, is considered to be, in a unique sense, the successor of Saint Peter, the chief or "prince" of the apostles. Quoting theVatican Council's written document Lumen gentium, the Catechism of the Catholic Church states: "The Pope, Bishop of Rome and Peter's successor, 'is the perpetual and visible extension and foundation of the unity both of the bishops and of the whole agency of the faithful.'"
All the Catholic particular churches, whether Latin or Eastern, local or autonomous—are by definition in full communion with the Holy See of Rome.