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...can establish or maintain proprietary interests within a particular legal jurisdiction. This body of information and creativity is considered to be part of a comm

A prelate is a member of the clergy who either has ordinary jurisdiction over a group of people or ranks in precedence with ordinaries. A prelature

The Albanian Orthodox Diocese of America is a jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in the United States. Its current leader is ...1922 as Bishop of Durres by the Church of Albania, which did not claim any jurisdiction in North America, and thus could not gain recognition as head of a diocese

By extension, '''Episcopal See''' also refers to the local [[ordinary]] jurisdiction of that chief bishop (the [[diocese]] or particular church) and also the go

...rritory that made up the diocese at the time of its founding was under the jurisdiction of a number of different [[Catholic]] prelates. Most of these were purely a

Our Jurisdiction has churches in Syria and Israel. The Israeli Church consists of Nasrani Je ..."Portuguese Indian", becuase the Church now consists of various Rites. The Jurisdiction of this particular Church is referred to as "Nasrani Thomasine." The term "

...led the [[Papacy]] and formally called the Pontificate; his ecclesiastical jurisdiction is called the [[Holy See]] (''Sancta Sedes''). Catholics worldwide consider ...trol of suffragan Egyptian bishops, in a manner consciously similar to the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome; the Alexandrian archbishop was given precedence imme

...g running dispute with the Catholic Church over the claim by the church of jurisdiction over the English people, though ostensibly based on Henry VIII's desire for

...o a special relationship to the Pope. It means an institution in which the jurisdiction of the prelate is not linked to a territory but over persons, wherever they