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(Archidioikesis, archidioecesis).
This term does not designate an ecclesiastical province, but only that diocese of the province which is the archbishop's own, and over which he holds immediate and exclusive jurisdiction.
Sources
FERRARIS, Bibliotheca Canonica, etc; WERNZ, Jus Decretalium, II. tit. 34; SMITH, Elements of Ecclesiastical Law, I; PHILLIPS, Kirchenrecht, VI; SILBERNAGL Verfassung und Beshtand sämtlichber Kirchen des Orients (1904); Concilii Plenarii Balt. II Acta et Decreta, tit. III; SANTI, Prælectiones Juris Canonici, t. I; Gerarchia Cattolica (Roma, 1906).
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Obstat, Nihil. Lafort, Remy, Censor. Entry for 'Archdiocese'. The Catholic Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/a/archdiocese.html. Robert Appleton Company. New York. 1914.
Obstat, Nihil. Lafort, Remy, Censor. Entry for 'Archdiocese'. The Catholic Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/a/archdiocese.html. Robert Appleton Company. New York. 1914.
