Archdeacons - Archdeacon, Martynas Ma Vydas, Jonathan of Dunblane, Walter Stewart, Walter of Oxford, James Leo Schuster, Asclettin (Paperback)

Chapters: Archdeacon, Martynas Ma vydas, Jonathan of Dunblane, Walter Stewart, Walter of Oxford, James Leo Schuster, Asclettin, Sir Francis Heathcote, 9th Baronet. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: A position of archdeacon is a senior position in Anglicanism, Syrian Malabar Nasrani, and in some other Christian denominations, above that of most clergy and below a bishop. In the High Middle Ages it was the most senior diocesan position below a bishop in the Roman Catholic Church. An archdeacon is often responsible for administration within an archdeaconry, which is the principal subdivision of the diocese. In the Catholic Church, the post of archdeacon, generally a priest, was once one of great importance as a senior official of a diocese. It has fallen into disuse, and its duties are now part of the work of such officials as the auxiliary and/or coadjutor bishops, the vicar general, the episcopal vicar, and the vicar forane/dean/archpriest. In 11th-century England, a diocese was meant to be about 3,000 square miles (8,000 km ). This would have implied that every part was reachable within a single day's ride. In practice, some dioceses were much larger, taking up to five days in some cases to go end to end. Additionally, some had topographical considerations that greatly limited travel within them (meaning that much shorter distances could be covered in a single day than in other areas). The response to the demands of such distances and terrain, and the increasing demands of church business, was territorial subdivision. The primary unit of subdivision of a diocese was the archdeaconry. An ecclesiastical council held at Windsor in 1070 ordered "that bishops should appoint archdeacons in their churches." The archdeacon, generally an ordained priest, ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=76858