Catholics, Anglicans, Lutherans etc: How are your Bishop and Diocese funded?

[DC Al Fine]

Running a diocese and supporting a bishop obviously costa a lot of money. Where does it come from? Does the diocese 'own' all the local parish donations and move them around as they see fit? Do they get a 'cut' of donations or require so much for year from each parish? Do they have to do all their own fundraising?

What about non-diocesan stuff like schools, missions social work?

For comparison, in my denomination; the PCA, the Presbyteries are funded by levying a flat rate per communicant member each year. Other groups like PCA missions do their own fundraising from individuals, congregations and presbyteries.

[rpryor03]

For my Episcopal Diocese, assessments from congregations (based on income rather than communicants) make up around 2/3rds of the budget and the rest is various other funds like endowment $$.

[Small L]

This is all anecdotal.
Most/all Catholic dioceses are funded by a portion of the collection at each parish. I don't know what percentage, if it's a flat rate, etc. I think it may vary per diocese. I am sure that a significant majority of Sunday collections stay with the parish.

Many dioceses have a "bishop's annual appeal." Essentially a heavily promoted fundraiser (online and as a Sunday collection) with 100% of the funds going directly to the diocese. I believe this is the largest source of income on the diocesan level.

[Kingpoleon]

Methodists don’t have dioceses, but we do pay certain percentages to the episcopal area - I. E. Bishop Gary Mueller, Bishop of the Arkansas Area, has residential and presidential duties over Arkansas.