tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post2640588359604831690..comments2024-03-28T20:30:48.788+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: Pastor in valle Adurni ...Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-3275306455722690202011-02-01T10:28:42.157+00:002011-02-01T10:28:42.157+00:00Please, on no account look to the Orthodox Church ...Please, on no account look to the Orthodox Church for the type of Christian episcopal organisation. The Russians and the Greeks use the same terminology of Archbishop and Metropolitan, with entirely different meanings as regards jurisdiction.<br />The Russian name for an Auxiliary is "vicar bishop" which conveys the sense of "substitute for the Bishop" quite well.<br />Just B flathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17611595580578224726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-19571559646061114672011-01-31T21:55:50.140+00:002011-01-31T21:55:50.140+00:00The task of confirming converst, such as I was 20 ...The task of confirming converst, such as I was 20 years ago, has been delegated here in Houston to the local pastor. There was a kind of non-mandatory follow up service with the bishop. I did cover my bases, however, a couple of years later with confirmation sub conditione administered (complete with vigorous slap on the cheek) by H.E. Richard Williamson, who preached one of his patented stem- Woodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08910654300435533408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-50628393971289344602011-01-31T21:41:01.298+00:002011-01-31T21:41:01.298+00:00In my area of the U.S., we regularly have the reti...In my area of the U.S., we regularly have the retired abbots of a local monastery confirm, as well as a bishop who came back to his former (as a priest) diocese after he retired. I think the reason they do is for the miter. It may not be the ideal, but people like the pontificals. The confirmer might not be the diocesan bishop, but he looks like it and for most people that is good enough.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03286578491636129500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-16515681343961827972011-01-31T20:27:43.436+00:002011-01-31T20:27:43.436+00:00Ahhh, to be a confirmation stooge.Ahhh, to be a confirmation stooge.Fr Timothy Matkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10794558184459092532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-12661127266481803462011-01-31T17:45:13.707+00:002011-01-31T17:45:13.707+00:00I too have often felt that our dioceses are too bi...I too have often felt that our dioceses are too big. Perhaps it is time for dioceses and archdioceses besides Rome to have suburbicarian sees, whose ordinaries might be elected by the provincial synod and approved and ordained by the metropolitan archbishop. This would have the advantage of making a sort of "minor league" of suburbicarian bishops which would provide a pool from which Figulushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13549064050271896212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-73220541174992997822011-01-31T15:51:06.730+00:002011-01-31T15:51:06.730+00:00The Eastern Orthodox indeed preferred not to divid...The Eastern Orthodox indeed preferred not to divide the Sacraments of Baptism, Chrismation and First Communion of infants, allowing priests to confirm. BUT the link with the Bishop remians, as the chrism must be consecrated by the Bishop. In the Roman Catholic Church, until recently, only Bishops could licitly confirm. Simple Priests could licitly confirm only in articulo mortis, or in some Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-54832180172002863932011-01-31T12:55:23.794+00:002011-01-31T12:55:23.794+00:00Area bishops: I understand that this was a pet pro...Area bishops: I understand that this was a pet project of Basil Hume in Westminster and his successor was told to do away with it. You don't see references to area bishops in Westminster any more. Auxiliaries are just auxiliaries.<br /><br />The situation in the Archdiocese of Birmingham remains a bit ambiguous. But as a whole the phenonemon is on the way out, not in. It doesn't Joseph Shawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06587987442560784792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-59390958279203300602011-01-31T12:31:51.909+00:002011-01-31T12:31:51.909+00:00Here in Boston, Mass., our Archbishop typically ha...Here in Boston, Mass., our Archbishop typically has 4 to 5 auxiliaries; "regional" bishops for South, West, North and Central, and often one as chancellor or some sort of vicar. All the harder to understand, since each of the regions has at least one city (and most more than one) of more than 100,000 souls, a near majority of which are at least nominally Catholic.<br />Why each of theseSteve Cavanaughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-66914732766984885812011-01-31T12:08:49.408+00:002011-01-31T12:08:49.408+00:00Hepatopolis! Surely there is a way to make that o...Hepatopolis! Surely there is a way to make that one stick.Father Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18170260624474428623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-30138439889562729052011-01-31T12:02:19.872+00:002011-01-31T12:02:19.872+00:00the question of what Confirmation, as a rite separ...<i> the question of what Confirmation, as a rite separate from Baptism, actually does </i><br /><br />The usual catechesis in Orthodox churches is that baptism is our personal (intimate, liturgical, sacramental) means of participation in the death and resurrection of the Lord, and chrismation our personal (intimate, liturgical, sacramental) participation in Pentecost. <br /><br />That the holy Священник селаhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08182325210748920363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-72916344908761340732011-01-31T11:20:09.430+00:002011-01-31T11:20:09.430+00:00Where there is chrismation, the link with the Bish...Where there is chrismation, the link with the Bishop is clear; but since the Anglican rite does not include chrismation (at least, not until very recently), the restriction of the rite to Bishops makes some sort of sense. But it still does not address the question of what Confirmation, as a rite separate from Baptism, actually does. My instinct is to say that while Baptism confers membership of Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-21206532940221324832011-01-31T10:43:42.494+00:002011-01-31T10:43:42.494+00:00Perhaps the Anglican Church could consider the sol...Perhaps the Anglican Church could consider the solution arrived at in some Catholic dioceses, whereby the Diocesan confirms as part of his Visitation - at other times, Confirmation is delegated to the parish priest who has supervised the candidates' preparation?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05824939563302911348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-35145388043188105102011-01-31T10:30:53.270+00:002011-01-31T10:30:53.270+00:00But what of the chorbishops / chorepiscopoi ?
Wer...But what of the chorbishops / chorepiscopoi ?<br /><br />Were they not the equivalent of area bishops (if not vicars forane) in the Primitive Church?Joshuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17387698013828199070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-89458609034492462532011-01-31T10:29:41.016+00:002011-01-31T10:29:41.016+00:00I recall such Anglican suffragans being referred t...I recall such Anglican suffragans being referred to as "confirmation stooges".Joshuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17387698013828199070noreply@blogger.com