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The pope ( from " pappas ", a child ' s word for " father ") is the Bishop of Rome and , therefore , the leader of the worldwide ___MASK3___ . The primacy of the Roman bishop is largely derived from his role as the traditional successor to Saint Peter , to whom Jesus is supposed to have given the keys of Heaven and the powers of " binding and loosing ", naming him as the " rock " upon which the church would be built . The current pope is Francis , who was elected on 13 March 2013 , succeeding Benedict XVI . The Roman ___MASK62___ Archdiocese of Sydney is a ___MASK95___ metropolitan archdiocese , located in Sydney , New South Wales , Australia . The Roman Curia is the administrative apparatus of the Holy See and the central body through which the Roman Pontiff conducts the affairs of the universal ___MASK3___ . It acts in his name and with his authority for the good and for the service of the particular Churches and provides the necessary central organization for the correct functioning of the Church and the achievement of its goals . John Joseph Scanlan ( May 24 , 1906  January 31 , 1997 ) was the second Bishop of the Roman ___MASK62___ Diocese of Honolulu in the United States . James Robert Knox , GCC ( 2 March 1914  26 June 1983 ), an Australian Roman ___MASK62___ cardinal , was President of the Pontifical Council for the Family , between 1981 and 1983 ; a Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments , between 1974 and 1983 ; and the fifth Archbishop of Melbourne , serving between 1967 and 1974 . The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments is the congregation of the Roman Curia that handles most affairs relating to liturgical practices of the ___MASK95___ as distinct from the Eastern ___MASK62___ Churches and also some technical matters relating to the Sacraments . Its functions were originally exercised by the Sacred Congregation of Rites , set up in January 1588 by Pope Sixtus V . Sir James Darcy Freeman KBE ( 19 November 1907  16 March 1991 ) was an Australian cardinal and the sixth Roman ___MASK62___ Archbishop of Sydney and Cardinal - Priest of S . Maria Regina Pacis in Ostia . He was ordained a priest of the Sydney archdiocese on 13 July 1930 , appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney on 9 December 1956 and ordained Titular Bishop of Hermopolis . In 1973 he was elevated to the cardinalate . The ___MASK62___ Diocese of Honolulu , officially in Latin " Dioecesis Honoluluensis ", is an ecclesiastical territory or particular church of the ___MASK3___ in the United States . The diocese comprises the entire state of Hawaii and the unincorporated Hawaiian Islands . The diocese is suffragan to the Metropolitan Archdiocese of San Francisco and a part of the ecclesiastical province that includes the San Francisco archdiocese and the suffragan dioceses of Las Vegas , Oakland , Reno , Sacramento , Salt Lake City , San Jose , Santa Rosa and Stockton . The patrons of the Diocese of Honolulu are the Blessed Virgin Mary , under the title of " Malia O Ka Malu " or " Our Lady Queen of Peace ", Saint Damien of Molokai , and Saint Marianne of Molokai . All Hallows College is a college of higher education in Dublin . It was founded in 1842 and has been run by the Vincentians since 1892 . On 23 May 2014 , it was announced that it would wind down and eventually close . No timetable for this was given . On 19 June 2015 , it was announced that the campus in Drumcondra is to be sold to Dublin City University . David Cremin ( born 22 February 1930 is a Roman ___MASK62___ Bishop Emeritus of the Roman ___MASK62___ Archdiocese of Sydney . He was born in Ballydoorty , County Limerick , Ireland . He was taught by the Jesuits in Limerick , and attended the Seminary of All Hallows College in Dublin . He was ordained a priest on 12 June 1955 by John Joseph Scanlan . On 25 October 1973 he was appointed Titular Bishop of Cunga Féichin and Auxiliary Bishop of his home diocese . He was ordained a bishop on 19 January 1974 . The Principal Consecrator was Cardinal James Darcy Freeman ; his Principal Co - Consecrators were James Knox and Bishop Thomas Cahill . He retired from his post on 22 February 2005 . Presbyter ( Greek  , : " elder " or " priest " in ___MASK22___ usage ) in the New Testament refers to a leader in local ___MASK22___ congregations , with presbyter being from the Greek "" presbyteros "" and meaning elder / senior and episkopos meaning overseer , referring exclusively to the office of bishop , but with presbyteros being understood by many as referring to the same person functioning as overseer . In modern ___MASK62___ and Orthodox usage , presbyter is distinct from " bishop " and synonymous with " priest ". However , in predominant Protestant usage , the term is not seen as referring to a member of a distinctive priesthood called " priests ," but instead terms such as " minister ", " pastor " and " elder " are used . A titular bishop in various churches is a bishop who is not in charge of a diocese . By definition a bishop is an " overseer " of a community of the faithful , so when a priest is ordained a bishop the tradition of the Roman ___MASK62___ and Orthodox churches is that he be ordained for a specific place . There are more bishops than there are functioning dioceses . Therefore , a priest appointed not to head a diocese as its diocesan bishop , but to be an auxiliary bishop , a papal diplomat , or an official of the Roman Curia is appointed to a titular see . The Eastern ___MASK62___ Churches , also called the Oriental ___MASK62___ Churches and historically known as the Eastern - rite ___MASK62___ Churches or Uniate Churches , are 23 Eastern Christian particular churches " sui iuris " in full communion with the Pope in Rome . With about 18 million members , they make up a small part ( about 1 . 5 percent ) of the ___MASK3___ together with the Latin Church ( Western Church ). An auxiliary bishop , in the Roman ___MASK3___ , is a bishop assigned to assist the diocesan bishop in meeting the pastoral needs of the diocese . They exist in both the Latin Church and in the Eastern Catholic Churches . Auxiliary bishops are titular bishops of sees that no longer exist . The Pontifical Council for the Family was part of the Curia of the Roman ___MASK3___ from 1981 to 2016 . It was established by Pope John Paul II on 9 May 1981 with his motu proprio " Familia a Deo Instituta ", replacing the Committee for the Family that Pope Paul VI had established in 1973 . The Council fostered " the pastoral care of families , protects their rights and dignity in the Church and in civil society , so that they may ever be more able to fulfill their duties ." Hermopolis ( also " Hermopolis Magna ", Greek : " Hermou polis megale " Egyptian " Khemenu ", " mnw ") was a major city in antiquity , located near the boundary between Lower and Upper Egypt . A provincial capital since the Old Kingdom period , Hermopolis developed into a major city of Roman Egypt , and an early ___MASK22___ center from the 3rd century . It was abandoned after the Muslim invasion . A priest or priestess ( feminine ) ( from Greek  " presbýteros " through Latin " presbyter ", " elder ", or from Old High German " priast ", " prest ", from Vulgar Latin " provost " " one put over others ", from Latin " praepositus " " person placed in charge "), is a person authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion , especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities . They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites ; in particular , rites of sacrifice to , and propitiation of , a deity or deities . Their office or position is the priesthood , a term which also may apply to such persons collectively . Emeritus , in its current usage , is an adjective used to designate a retired professor , pastor , bishop , pope , president , prime minister , or other person . The word diocese is derived from the Greek term "" meaning " administration ". When now used in an ecclesiastical sense , it refers to a territorial unit of administration . In the Western ___MASK61___ , the district is under the supervision of a bishop ( who may have assistant bishops to help him or her ) and is divided into parishes under the care of priests ; but in the Eastern ___MASK61___ , the word denotes the area under the jurisdiction of a patriarch and the bishops under his jurisdiction administer parishes . This structure of ___MASK61___ governance is known as episcopal polity . Dublin City University ( abbreviated as DCU ) is a university situated on the Northside of Dublin in Ireland . Created as the " National Institute for Higher Education , Dublin ", it enrolled its first students in 1980 and was elevated to university status ( along with the University of Limerick ) in 1989 by statute . In September 2016 , DCU completed the process resulting in the incorporation of three Dublin institutions : ___MASK42___ College of Education ; Mater Dei Institute of Education and St Patrick ' s College .