A deanery is the territorial jurisdiction of a dean. "Parishes of a diocese are usually gathered into deaneries in order to promote joint pastoral action and the best possible distribution of ministry, and to provide for the pastoral care of the priests serving in each area of the diocese" (La Crosse). "The care of the deanery is confided by the diocesan bishop, after consultation with the priests of the deanery, to one of the priests ministering in the deanery" (La Crosse). This individual is called the dean.
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| - A deanery is the territorial jurisdiction of a dean. "Parishes of a diocese are usually gathered into deaneries in order to promote joint pastoral action and the best possible distribution of ministry, and to provide for the pastoral care of the priests serving in each area of the diocese" (La Crosse). "The care of the deanery is confided by the diocesan bishop, after consultation with the priests of the deanery, to one of the priests ministering in the deanery" (La Crosse). This individual is called the dean.
- a. A sub-division of an English diocese, often corresponding to an existing local government area. Although common in the Middle Ages the deanery had largely fallen into deseutude until its resoration in the Victorian period when there was an increasing realization that the size of English dioceses made them untenable as pastoral units. The first diocese to reestablish rural deaneries was that of Oxford. The Enabling Act of 1919 made it possible to establish Ruri-Decanal Conferences as an inferior level of ecclestiastical governance and these were adapted into the present English Synodical system as the Deanery Synod. Increasingly, dioceses are delegated decisions about budgets and the deployment of stipendiary ministers to this more local level.
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| - A deanery is the territorial jurisdiction of a dean. "Parishes of a diocese are usually gathered into deaneries in order to promote joint pastoral action and the best possible distribution of ministry, and to provide for the pastoral care of the priests serving in each area of the diocese" (La Crosse). "The care of the deanery is confided by the diocesan bishop, after consultation with the priests of the deanery, to one of the priests ministering in the deanery" (La Crosse). This individual is called the dean. In a practical way, the main roles of the dean are to help support the deanery clergy: To provide information between the deanery parishes and its diocese. The dean may also help with parish matters and, in some cases, represent the bishop. They may also coordinate endeavors within the deanery, including services, fund raisers, and other activities.
- a. A sub-division of an English diocese, often corresponding to an existing local government area. Although common in the Middle Ages the deanery had largely fallen into deseutude until its resoration in the Victorian period when there was an increasing realization that the size of English dioceses made them untenable as pastoral units. The first diocese to reestablish rural deaneries was that of Oxford. The Enabling Act of 1919 made it possible to establish Ruri-Decanal Conferences as an inferior level of ecclestiastical governance and these were adapted into the present English Synodical system as the Deanery Synod. Increasingly, dioceses are delegated decisions about budgets and the deployment of stipendiary ministers to this more local level. b. The residence of the dean of a cathedral.
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