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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.
This type of union essentially consistsinto 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.
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.
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