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An episcopal see is, in a practical use of the phrase,^{[clarification needed]} the area of a bishop's ecclesiastical jurisdiction.^[1]^[2]

Phrases concerning actions occurring within or outside an episcopal see are indicative of the geographical significance of the term, making it synonymous with diocese.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

The word see is derived from Latin sedes, which in its original or proper sense denotes the seat or chair that, in the case of a bishop, is the earliest symbol of the bishop's authority.^[7] This symbolic chair is also known as the bishop's cathedra. The church in which it is placed is for that reason called the bishop's cathedral, from Latin ecclesia cathedralis, meaning the 'church of the cathedra'. The word throne is also used, especially in the Eastern Orthodox Church, both for the chair and for the area of ecclesiastical jurisdiction.^[8]

The term see is also used of the town where the cathedral or the bishop's residence is located.^[7]

Catholic Church

Within Catholicism, each diocese is considered to be a see unto itself with a certain allegiance to the See of Rome. The idea of a see as a sovereign entity is somewhat complicated due to the existence of the twenty-three Particular Eastern Catholic Churches. Both the Western Church and its Eastern Catholic counterparts reserve some level of autonomy, yet each also is subdivided into smaller sees (dioceses and archdioceses). The episcopal see of the Pope, the Bishop of Rome, is known as "the Holy See"^[9] or "the Apostolic See",^[10] claiming papal supremacy.

Eastern Orthodox Church

The Eastern Orthodox Church views all bishops as sacramentally equal, and in principle holding equal authority, each over his own see. Certain bishops may be granted additional administrative duties over wider regions (as in the idea of the Pentarchy), but these powers are limited and never extend over the entire Church. Thus, the Eastern Orthodox oppose the idea of papal supremacy or any similar supremacy by any one bishop.

United Methodist Church

The United Methodist Church is divided into Annual Conferences, each one of which is presided over by a resident bishop, who is bishop of a named Episcopal Area, or See city. This is usually the Annual Conference's largest, or sometimes most centrally located, city. Annual Conferences are the regional bodies which are the fundamental basic bodies of which the United Methodist Global Connection is composed. Annual Conferences are responsible for many matters, including the approval, election and ordination of clergy, who then become members of the Annual Conference in which they are elected and ordained and – with some exceptions – serve within the bounds of for the tenure of their ministries.

United Methodist Bishops are elected in larger regional conclaves every four years which are known as Jurisdictional Conferences. These super-regional Jurisdictional Conferences comprise an equal number of lay and clergy delegates from each Annual Conference, each delegation determined by the size of the Annual Conference, within the Jurisdiction, and new bishops are elected and consecrated from among the clergy of the Jurisdiction's Annual Conferences. These bishops who are elected for life, are then sent to lead the various Annual Conferences of the Jurisdiction. Episcopal candidates are usually – although not always – the first clergy delegate elected from a particular Annual Conference. Each bishop is assigned to and leads for four year terms an Episcopal area, or see, of each Annual Conference. An Episcopal area can also comprise more than one Annual Conference when two smaller Annual Conferences agree to share a bishop.^[11]

References

^ "Dictionary : Episcopal See". www.catholicculture.org. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
^ "Church of England – Episcopal See of Gibraltar – Question. (Hansard, 12 August 1876)". api.parliament.uk. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
^ "Houses of Benedictine monks: Priory of Little Malvern | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
^ The Church of England, Together in Mission and Ministry (Church House Publishing 1993 ISBN 978-0-71515750-3), p. 103
^ "Ordinance of William I Separating the Spiritual and Temporal Courts". avalon.law.yale.edu. 29 December 1998. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
^ Saint Augustine, Sermons on the Liturgical Seasons (CUA Press 2010 ISBN 978-0-81321138-1), p. ix
^ ^a ^b Cross, F. L.; Livingstone, E. A., eds. (2009). "See". The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3rd revised ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0192802903.
^ For instance, Communiqué of the Ecumenical Patriarchate
^ "Definition of HOLY SEE". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
^ [1]"Definition of APOSTOLIC SEE". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
^ The United Methodist Book of Discipline, 2018 (special session)

External links

"See" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911.

[1] "Dictionary : Episcopal See". www.catholicculture.org. Retrieved 23 December 2018.

[2] "Church of England – Episcopal See of Gibraltar – Question. (Hansard, 12 August 1876)". api.parliament.uk. Retrieved 23 December 2018.

[3] "Houses of Benedictine monks: Priory of Little Malvern | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 23 December 2018.

[4] The Church of England, Together in Mission and Ministry (Church House Publishing 1993 ISBN 978-0-71515750-3), p. 103

[5] "Ordinance of William I Separating the Spiritual and Temporal Courts". avalon.law.yale.edu. 29 December 1998. Retrieved 23 December 2018.

[6] Saint Augustine, Sermons on the Liturgical Seasons (CUA Press 2010 ISBN 978-0-81321138-1), p. ix

[ODCC-7] Cross, F. L.; Livingstone, E. A., eds. (2009). "See". The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3rd revised ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0192802903.

[8] For instance, Communiqué of the Ecumenical Patriarchate

[9] "Definition of HOLY SEE". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 23 December 2018.

[10] [1]"Definition of APOSTOLIC SEE". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 23 December 2018.

[11] The United Methodist Book of Discipline, 2018 (special session)

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+{{Short description|Main administrative seat held by a bishop}}
-[[image:Roma-san giovanni03.jpg|thumb|right|The seat or cathedra of the Bishop of Rome in the Basilica of [[San Giovanni in Laterano]]]]
+{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2022}}
-An '''episcopal see''' is, in the usual meaning of the phrase, the area of a [[bishop]]'s [[ecclesiastical jurisdiction]].<ref>[http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/dictionary/index.cfm?id=33355 John Hardon, ''Modern Catholic Dictionary'', s.v. "Episcopal see"]</ref><ref>[http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1876/aug/12/church-of-england-episcopal-see-of Hansard report]</ref>
+[[Image:Roma-san giovanni03.jpg|thumb|right|The seat or {{lang|la|cathedra}} of the Bishop of Rome in the [[Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran]]]]
+An '''episcopal see''' is, {{Clarify inline|date=June 2024|text=in a practical use of the phrase,}} the area of a [[bishop]]'s [[ecclesiastical jurisdiction]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/dictionary/index.cfm?id=33355|title=Dictionary : Episcopal See |website=www.catholicculture.org|access-date=23 December 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1876/aug/12/church-of-england-episcopal-see-of|title=Church of England – Episcopal See of Gibraltar – Question. (Hansard, 12 August 1876)|website=api.parliament.uk|access-date=23 December 2018}}</ref>
-Phrases concerning actions occurring within or outside an episcopal see are indicative of the geographical significance of the term, making it synonymous with "[[diocese]]".<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=36472 Priory of Little Malvern]</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=JubvAqggjL8C&pg=PA103&lpg=PA103&dq=%22within+the+episcopal+see%22&source=bl&ots=oOW0Ug6REo&sig=X1oG-Ly-xo7pZizjAU5vEsCUy60&hl=en&sa=X&ei=woVDVMLfOeeM7Aag-YG4DQ&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=%22within%20the%20episcopal%20see%22&f=false The Church of England, ''Together in Mission and Ministry'' (Church House Publishing 1993 ISBN 978-0-71515750-3), p. 103]</ref><ref>[http://avalon.law.yale.edu/medieval/ordwill.asp Yale Law School, ''The Avalon Project'': "Ordinance of William I Separating the Spiritual and Temporal Courts"]</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=ig8mwr2XUTcC&pg=PR9&lpg=PR9&dq=%22outside+his+episcopal+see%22&source=bl&ots=k41YQhe6iN&sig=jlJwt0AKwgQG520lXNuwNgJQTMo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=FodDVKvuL63d7QbWtYCYAg&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22outside%20his%20episcopal%20see%22&f=false Saint Augustine, ''Sermons on the Liturgical Seasons'' (CUA Press 2010 ISBN 978-0-81321138-1), p. ix]</ref>
+Phrases concerning actions occurring within or outside an episcopal see are indicative of the geographical significance of the term, making it synonymous with ''[[diocese]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/worcs/vol2/pp143-147|title=Houses of Benedictine monks: Priory of Little Malvern {{!}} British History Online|website=www.british-history.ac.uk|access-date=23 December 2018}}</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=JubvAqggjL8C&pg=PA103 The Church of England, ''Together in Mission and Ministry''] (Church House Publishing 1993 {{ISBN|978-0-71515750-3}}), p. 103</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://avalon.law.yale.edu/medieval/ordwill.asp|title=Ordinance of William I Separating the Spiritual and Temporal Courts|date=29 December 1998|website=avalon.law.yale.edu|access-date=23 December 2018}}</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ig8mwr2XUTcC&pg=PR9 Saint Augustine, ''Sermons on the Liturgical Seasons''] (CUA Press 2010 {{ISBN|978-0-81321138-1}}), p. ix</ref>
-The word "see" is derived from [[Latin]] ''sedes'', which in its original or proper sense denotes the seat or chair that, in the case of a bishop, is the earliest symbol of the bishop's authority.<ref name=ODCC>''The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church'' (Oxford University Press 2005, ISBN 978-0-19-280290-3), s.v. "see"</ref> This symbolic chair is also known as the bishop's [[cathedra]], and is placed in the diocese principal church, which for that reason is called the bishop's [[cathedral]], from Latin ''ecclesia cathedralis'', meaning the church of the cathedra. The word "throne" is also used, especially in the [[Eastern Orthodox Church]], both for the seat and for the area of ecclesiastical jurisdiction.<ref>For instance, [http://www.ec-patr.org/docdisplay.php?lang=en&id=825&tla=en Communiqué of the Ecumenical Patriarchate]</ref>
-The term "see" is also used of the town where the cathedral or the bishop's residence is located.<ref name=ODCC/>
+The word ''see'' is derived from [[Latin]] {{lang|la|sedes}}, which in its original or proper sense denotes the seat or chair that, in the case of a bishop, is the earliest symbol of the bishop's authority.<ref name=ODCC>{{cite book
+ |editor1-last=Cross |editor1-first=F. L. |editor2-last=Livingstone |editor2-first=E. A.
+ |date=2009
+ |title=The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
+ |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192802903.001.0001/acref-9780192802903-e-6218
+ |location=Oxford
+ |publisher=Oxford University Press|edition=3rd revised |chapter=See
+ |isbn=978-0192802903
+}}</ref> This symbolic chair is also known as the bishop's {{lang|la|[[cathedra]]}}. The church in which it is placed is for that reason called the bishop's [[cathedral]], from Latin {{lang|la|ecclesia cathedralis}}, meaning the 'church of the {{lang|la|cathedra}}'. The word ''throne'' is also used, especially in the [[Eastern Orthodox Church]], both for the chair and for the area of ecclesiastical jurisdiction.<ref>For instance, [http://www.ec-patr.org/docdisplay.php?lang=en&id=825&tla=en Communiqué of the Ecumenical Patriarchate]</ref>
+The term ''see'' is also used of the town where the cathedral or the bishop's residence is located.<ref name=ODCC/>
-The episcopal see of the [[pope]], the bishop of Rome, is known as "the [[Holy See]]"<ref>[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/holy%20see Merriam-Webster Dictionary: "holy see"]</ref> or "the [[Apostolic See]]".<ref>[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apostolic%20see Merriam-Webster Dictionary: "apostolic see'']</ref>
+== Catholic Church ==
+{{Papal primacy and infallibility|expanded=patriarchs}}
+Within Catholicism, each diocese is considered to be a see unto itself with a certain allegiance to the See of Rome. The idea of a see as a sovereign entity is somewhat complicated due to the existence of the twenty-three [[Eastern Catholic Churches|Particular Eastern Catholic Churches]]. Both the Western Church and its Eastern Catholic counterparts reserve some level of autonomy, yet each also is subdivided into smaller sees (dioceses and archdioceses). The episcopal see of the [[Pope]], the Bishop of Rome, is known as "the [[Holy See]]"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Holy+See|title=Definition of HOLY SEE|website=www.merriam-webster.com|language=en|access-date=23 December 2018}}</ref> or "the [[Apostolic See]]",<ref>[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apostolic%20see]{{Cite web |title=Definition of APOSTOLIC SEE |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apostolic+see |access-date=23 December 2018 |website=www.merriam-webster.com |language=en}}</ref> claiming [[papal supremacy]].
+== Eastern Orthodox Church ==
+The [[Eastern Orthodox Church]] views all [[Bishop (Eastern Orthodox Church)|bishops]] as sacramentally equal, and in principle holding equal authority, each over his own see. Certain bishops may be granted additional administrative duties over wider regions (as in the idea of the [[Pentarchy]]), but these powers are limited and never extend over the entire Church. Thus, the Eastern Orthodox [[Eastern Orthodox opposition to papal supremacy|oppose the idea of papal supremacy]] or any similar supremacy by any one bishop.
+==United Methodist Church==
+The [[United Methodist Church]] is divided into [[Annual conferences within Methodism|Annual Conferences]], each one of which is presided over by a resident bishop, who is [[Bishop#Methodism|bishop]] of a named [[Episcopal Area]], or See city. This is usually the Annual Conference's largest, or sometimes most centrally located, city. Annual Conferences are the regional bodies which are the fundamental basic bodies of which the [[General_Conference_(Methodism)|United Methodist Global Connection]] is composed. Annual Conferences are responsible for many matters, including the approval, election and ordination of clergy, who then become members of the Annual Conference in which they are elected and ordained and &ndash; with some exceptions &ndash; serve within the bounds of for the tenure of their ministries.
+[[Bishop#Methodism|United Methodist Bishops]] are elected in larger regional conclaves every four years which are known as [[Jurisdictional conferences (United Methodist Church)|Jurisdictional Conferences]]. These super-regional Jurisdictional Conferences comprise an equal number of lay and clergy delegates from each Annual Conference, each delegation determined by the size of the Annual Conference, within the Jurisdiction, and new bishops are elected and consecrated from among the clergy of the Jurisdiction's Annual Conferences. These bishops who are elected for life, are then sent to lead the various Annual Conferences of the Jurisdiction. Episcopal candidates are usually &ndash; although not always &ndash; the first clergy delegate elected from a particular Annual Conference. Each bishop is assigned to and leads for four year terms an Episcopal area, or see, of each Annual Conference. An Episcopal area can also comprise more than one Annual Conference when two smaller Annual Conferences agree to share a bishop.<ref>The United Methodist Book of Discipline, 2018 (special session)</ref>
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 *[[Apostolic succession]]
 *[[Apostolic Throne]]
-*[[Archbishop]]
-*[[Bishop]]
-*[[Canon law]]
-*[[Cathedra]]
-*[[Catholic Church hierarchy]]
-*[[Diocese]]
 *[[Early centers of Christianity]]
 *[[Ecclesiastical province]]
+*[[Episcopal polity]]
-*[[Lists of patriarchs, archbishops, and bishops]]
+*[[Lists of popes, patriarchs, primates, archbishops, and bishops]]
-*[[Sede vacante]]
-*[[See of St. Mark]]
+*''[[Sede vacante]]''
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