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Aeque principaliter ("equally important") is a Latin term used by the RomanCatholic Church to indicate a merger of two or moredioceses in which – to avoid questions of predominance – the dioceses are all given equal importance. Such a merger often followed a mergerin persona episcopi.[citation needed]
This type of union essentially consists into the fusion of two or more circumscriptions into only one. As a consequence, this new diocese will have two or more episcopal sees and cathedrals, which correspond to those of the previous dioceses.[citation needed]
To give an example, theRoman Catholic Archdiocese of Pamplona and Tudela is a single diocese established by the unionaeque principaliter of the Archdiocese of Pamplona and the Diocese of Tudela. Through this fusion, the new circumscription has two episcopal sees: Pamplona and Tudela. As a consequence it has also two (co-)cathedrals, one for each episcopal see.[citation needed]
Parishes may also be mergedaeque principaliter.[1]
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