His suffragan diocese, however, is part of a larger ecclesiastical province, nominally led by a metropolitan archbishop.
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As one of the fifteen Archbishops of France, the ecclesiastical province of the archdiocese comprises the majority of Normandy.
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The decision to move a feast is made by the bishops of an ecclesiastical province, i.e. an archbishop and the neighbouring bishops.
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An important factor in the unification process was the Polish Church, which remained a single ecclesiastical province throughout the fragmentation period.
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An example is the Archdiocese of Hobart in Australia, associated with the Metropolitan ecclesiastical province of Melbourne, but not part of it.
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All of the member churches of the Anglican Communion comprise one or more ecclesiastical province, a grouping of dioceses for administrative purposes.
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In an Anglican Eucharist the form is contained in the rite and its rubrics, as articulated in the authorised prayer books of the ecclesiastical province.
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In the Middle Ages, York grew as a major wool trading centre and became the capital of the northern ecclesiastical province of the Church of England, a role it has retained.
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He supported the cause of reform by gradually replacing the old guard in his ecclesiastical province with men who followed the new thinking such as Hugh Latimer.