attached to a pastoral team and a pastoral council. Parish associations, however, are combinations of several parishes, each with its own pastor. Several parish groups can join together to form a parochial associations. Catholic Education Catholic Private Schools The most important educational institution of the Diocese is the Catholic University of Applied Sciences, Mainz. Besides the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mainz and the (arch)dioceses of Cologne, Limburg, Speyer and Trier belong to the initiators of this university . There are also other schools as the Edith-Stein-Schule in Darmstadt, Liebfrauenschule in Bensheim, the Episcopal Willigis-Gymnasium in Mainz, Abendgymnasium Ketteler of Mainz and the Episcopal College Willigis secondary school in Mainz. Facilities at state universities The diocese maintains three facilities at state universities. The most important of them is the Catholic Theological Faculty at the University of Mainz. In addition, there are at University of Giessen, the Institute for Catholic theology and their didactics, which is located at the Department of History and Cultural Studies. At the Technische Universität Darmstadt is an institute for theology and social ethics. Bildungswerk der Diözese Mainz The Bildungswerk der Diözese Mainz (educational works of the diocese of Mainz) promotes "... the church's adult education in the diocese from the parish to the diocesan level ..." The Bildungswerk is also a member of the Catholic Adult Education Hesse - Regional Working Group. Other educational institutions Institut für Kirchenmusik Mainz: training institution for catholic Church musicians Major churches Cathedral and Major basilicas Mainz Cathedral Worms Cathedral Basilica of St. Martin, Bingen am Rhein Basilica of Sts. Marcellinus and Petrus, Seligenstadt Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, Sts. Peter and Paul, Ilbenstadt Other well-known churches St. Stephen's Church, Mainz with Chagall windows St. Ludwig, Darmstadt, dome of Neoclassicism Collegiate church, Pfaffen-Schwabenheim Church of Our Lady, Worms Chapel of St. Roch, Bingen Liturgical calendar Local feasts of the diocese are: 5. January:John Neumann, Redemptorist priest and fourth Bishop of Philadelphia 4. February: Rabanus Maurus, Frankish Benedictine monk, archbishop of Mainz 14. February: Valentine, 3rd-century Christian martyr 23. February: Willigis, Archbishop of Mainz and statesman of the Holy Roman Empire 27. April: Peter Canisius, Jesuit priest who supported the Catholic faith during the Protestant Reformation in Germany 15. May: Rupert of Bingen, patron saint of pilgrims 2. June: Marcellinus and Peter, 4th-century Christian martyrs in Rome 5. June: Boniface, leading figure in the Anglo-Saxon mission to the German parts of the Frankish