This is an online database of bishops and dioceses of the Roman Catholic Church. It contains geographical, organizational and address information on each Catholic diocese in the world, …

Hierarchy of the Catholic Church Pope, bishop, cardinal, priest. There are so many names thrown around when talking about the Catholic Church it is easy to get confused about who belongs …

天主教会圣统制（英語： Catholic Church Hierarchy ）。 在天主教会内，hierarchy一词具有多种相关的用法。 从字面上讲，意为「神圣的秩序」（holy ordering），该词被用于不同的情况中 …

2025年1月17日 · In 1965 the Roman Catholic theologian Marie-Joseph Le Guillou defined the church in these terms: The Church is recognized as a society of fellowship with God, the …

2022年9月9日 · The Catholic clergy is organized in a strict, sometimes overlapping hierarchy: Pope: Head of the church, he is based at the Vatican. The pope is infallible in defining matters …

2024年3月11日 · Here, we break down this hierarchy, moving from the highest authority to local church leaders, providing a clear understanding of each role and its significance. At the top of …

The Catholic Church teaches as a doctrine of faith that Christ gave the Church, in his apostles, a hierarchical structure of an episcopal nature and that within the hierarchy and the Church he …

The Catholic Church hierarchy is primarily divided into three orders: the episcopate (bishops), the presbyterate (priests), and the diaconate (deacons). These three levels form the Sacrament of …

This hierarchy of ecclesiastical origin arose at the end of the second and the beginning of the third century, and appears definitely fixed at Rome under Pope Cornelius (251-252), who tells us …

But the essential hierarchy, with the pope as chief among bishops, and bishops governing the priests and resources of their individual diocese, has been constant. The established Catholic …