Bishop O'Dowd High School [SEP] located in the administrative territorial entity
Bishop O'Dowd High School
Bishop O'Dowd High School is a Catholic, co-educational, college preparatory school in Oakland, California, administered by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland and named for the late auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, James T. O'Dowd (1907–1950). The school requires all students to attend school liturgies (Catholic Mass and prayer services), to enroll in religious studies courses each semester, and to complete its 4-year service learning program. O’Dowd is a Catholic high school community of 1,186 students.
Hochstift or Erzstift incorrectly simply as diocese/bishopric or archdiocese/archbishopric, respectively.
Territorial entity Ecclesiastical diocese.
In Danish, Norwegian and Swedish the term "stift" was adopted as a loan word from German. In ecclesiastical respect it simply denotes a diocese of a bishop.
Territorial entity Territorial subdivision.
At times a stift formed in Nordic countries an administrative jurisdiction under a Stiftamtmand (Danish).
Territorial entity Toponym.
In the Netherlands the term "Het Sticht" is usually denoting the Prince-bishopric of