Not logged in | Create account | Login

    Authorpædia Trademarks

    Social buttons

    Languages

    Read

    AUTHORPÆDIA is hosted by Authorpædia Foundation, Inc. a U.S. non-profit organization.

Jesse Ventura

Aeque principaliter ("equally important") is a Latin term used by the Roman Catholic Church to indicate a merger of two or more dioceses in which – to avoid questions of predominance – the dioceses are all given equal importance. Such a merger often followed a merger in persona episcopi.[citation needed]

This type of union essentially consists into the fusion of two or more circumscriptions into only one. As a consequence, this new diocese will have two or more episcopal sees and cathedrals, which correspond to those of the previous dioceses.[citation needed]

To give an example, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Pamplona and Tudela is a single diocese established by the union aeque principaliter of the Archdiocese of Pamplona and the Diocese of Tudela. Through this fusion, the new circumscription has two episcopal sees: Pamplona and Tudela. As a consequence it has also two (co-)cathedrals, one for each episcopal see.[citation needed]

Parishes may also be merged aeque principaliter.[1]

Examples

See also

References

  1. ^ Coady, John Joseph (1929). The Appointment of Pastors ... Catholic University of America. p. 124. Retrieved 1 June 2025.