Episcopate

Venerable Brothers in the Episcopate and in the Priesthood,

Homily of Papal Vespers on 28 June 2009 2009

For almost 500 years within Anglicanism, and 2000 years in Christianity, the elevation of a man to the Episcopate was not done by a vote of the laity and a vote of the clergy.

Anglican Church of Canada is hawking the silverware « Anglican Samizdat 2010

Venerable Brothers in the Episcopate and the Priesthood,

Pope Benedict on Eucharistic Adoration 2009

Episcopate in Proconsular Africa, Numidia and Mauretania totals 768 bishops; across North Africa there are 1,200 bishops; missionary training centers send workers across the world — but seemingly fail to cross the desert south in great numbers.

A survey of West Africa: a Chronology 2007

It falls upon You, Venerable Brothers in the Episcopate, to advise all, so that in their policy of pacification all will follow the principles taught by the Church, and proclaimed with such nobility by the Generalísimo: of justice for crime, and of lenient generosity for the mistaken.

Archive 2009-04-01 2009

Thus united and obedient to your venerable Episcopate, devote yourselves joyfully and with no delay, to the urgent work of reconstruction, which God and the Fatherland expect from you.

Archive 2009-04-01 2009

We are particularly disheartened by the attitude of the German Episcopate that has not ceased to show its hostility stripped of charity and its continuous judgements of intention, treating us “hatefully, without misgiving or restraint”, as the Holy Father justly said in his letter of last March 10th.

Archive 2009-03-01 2009

Venerable Brothers in the Episcopate and in the Priesthood

Archive 2008-01-27 papabear 2008

Venerable Brothers in the Episcopate and in the Priesthood

Archive 2008-10-05 papabear 2008

Well, if their Episcopate is married, they couldn't be Bishops, I guess they'd still be ordained priests.

the anglicans Dymphna 2008