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It contains geographical, organizational and address information on each Catholic diocese in the world, including Eastern Catholic Churches in communion with the Holy See, such as the Maronite Catholic Church or the Syro-Malabar Church.
29 paź 2024 · The society of Christian believers united in the profession of the one Christian faith and the participation in the one sacramental system under the government of the Roman Pontiff. The older definition, created in response to the claims of Protestantism, defines the church in external and juridical terms.
Church organization is strictly hierarchical. The pope appoints and presides over the cardinal s, whose numbers grew dramatically in the late 20th century, reaching 182 under John Paul II (1978–2005). Each of the church’s 500 archbishop s is the head of an archdiocese.
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024. [4] [5] [9] It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions and has played a prominent role in the history and development of Western civilization.
Visiting the official website of the Holy See one can browse: the Magisterium of the Supreme Pontiffs (from Pope Leo XIII to Pope Francis); the fundamental texts of Catholicism in various languages (the Sacred Bible, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the documents of the Second Vatican Council and the Code of Canon Law); the documents of ...
CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. PROLOGUE. I. The life of man - to know and love God. II. Handing on the Faith: Catechesis. III. The Aim and Intended Readership of the Catechism. IV. Structure of this Catechism. V. Practical Directions for Using this Catechism. VI. Necessary Adaptations. PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH.
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 established a primacy of authority in the successor of St. Peter.
