Thanks Elizabeth. Ruth At 3:11 PM +0100 8/3/06, Elizabeth Atherton wrote: >OK - in the UK we have the Church of England, Church of Wales, Church of >Scotland, all members of the Anglican church. Each region is divided into >areas called dioceses. Each diocese has a bishop. The bishop sits in the >cathedral which is the principal or mother church of the diocese. He sits on >the bishop's or episcopal throne. Cathedral is from the Latin cathedra >meaning chair. There are also two Archbishops, the senior in the south at >Canterbury and the junior in the north at York. > >A collegiate church is an important church served by a college of canons >(priests) not a single priest & doesn't have a bishop. > > ... Elizabeth -- Ruth Barton [email protected] Dummerston, VT