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Deacons

It was previously proposed to add |deacons= as a parameter to capture a count of the number of deacons (permanent) in the diocese, but there was no follow-up discussion or action taken to implement this. At least for Catholic dioceses, this information could be sourced from the dioceses themselves or from the Annuario Pontificio.

Are folks open to adding this parameter to be placed immediately below the |priests= parameter? — Archer1234 (t·c) 00:23, 12 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I support your proposal. I think you can go ahead and create a "Template-protected edit request" to officially request adding it. Nobody has spoken against it, and I'd be surprised if anyone is going to. Especially since it is an optional parameter, which means that if there is any diocese (especially non-Catholic ones) for which the information might not be available/relevant, we can just ignore it for them.

One comment though – I'm worried people will be confused about the distinction between permanent deacons, transitional deacons, or counting both. It might be better to have "permanent_deacons" as a parameter–I'm assuming any available statistics re either only going to count permanent deacons, or separately count the permanent and transitional ones. Another concern I have is around deaconesses, which while they don't (currently) exist in Catholicism, are found in some Anglican and Orthodox dioceses. Orthodox understand deaconesses as a separate order from the male-order only of deacons, so they'd never include deaconesses in statistics on deacons; but the majority (but not all) of Anglicans do view deaconesses as female deacons, and so would include that in a count of deacons. I'm not sure how best to address those differences, but I don't see those concerns as blocking your proposal, I'm just raising them for your awareness as potential gotchas worth thinking about. SomethingForDeletion (talk) 01:40, 18 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I know I'm a bit late here, but would we want to draw a distinction between permanent and transitional deacons? Does the AP differentiate the data in such a manner? Maximilian775 (talk) 19:48, 20 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

That's a good question. How does the AP count deacons? Ergo Sum 21:11, 20 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Leadership

The current leadership of the Diocese of Sodor and Man is Mark Davies, bishop of Middleton, after the retirement of Peter Eagles in October 2023. 147.161.145.93 (talk) 09:07, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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In - Total and - Catholics, replace the leading hyphen (-) with either a bullet point (•) or a dash (–) for the sake of typographical correctness. Hildeoc (talk) 05:28, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done This required some hackery, but I made it work after some fiddling in the sandbox and in the test cases. There is probably an easier way. – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:20, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]