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¶ 833

The phrase "particular Church," which is the Diocese (or eparchy), refers to a Community of the Christian Faithful in Communion of Faith and Sacraments with their Bishop ordained in Apostolic succession. 313 These particular Churches "are constituted after the model of the Universal Church; it is in these and formed out of them that the one and Unique Catholic Church exists." 314

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