A cathedra, which is also the root of what “chairs” in the meaning of “professorships” are called in Romance languages (for example, Cambridge’s Lucasian Chair).
My Uncle was a bishop, but he didn’t have a see, so although he was called Bishop John, he was actually a suffragan bishop and Bishop to the Armed Forces.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1335750/The-Right-Reverend-John-Hughes.html
On the point about capitalisation, there is a big difference between catholic and Catholic. Most anglicans at Holy Communion will recite some variation of the Nicene Creed in which they say “We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church.” Note the lower case ‘c’.
Although the difference is one of period or era more than of denomination. Roman missals also print the creed with a lower-case “c” for “catholic”, while in earlier times Anglicans used an upper-case ‘c’ - e.g. in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.
Having seem St. Basil’s in person, I can telling you that it’s breathtaking.
It must have used to. I remember learning once that the first bishop from what is now the UK to come to the American colonies and start ordaining priests here was from Scotland, not England. England refused to send one, in order to keep control over the church in the colonies, and Scotland wanted to piss off England, so it sent a bishop over. After the colonies became the US, a guy named Samuel Seabury became the first US citizen to be ordained bishop, and the US Episcopal Church was founded.
IIRC from college, though, circa 1988, a class in Christian History.
If I am remembering wrong, please enlighten.
I used to interpret for an Episcopal Church. “Catholic” in the creed means “wide-spread,” or even “universal,” if you are feeling very optimistic. I didn’t use the same sign to interpret it that I would use to indicate the denomination “Roman Catholic.”
You are (understandably) confusing the Church of Scotland with the Scottish Episcopal Church.
The Church of Scotland is a Presbyterian church, and has no bishops. It is the “national church” of Scotland (but not a state church), and is the largest Christian denomination in Scotland.
The Scottish Episcopal Church is an Anglican church, and has bishops (as the word “Episcopal” would imply). It was from this church that the Episcopal Church in the U.S. has its foundation.
The problem wasn’t that the Church of England wanted to “keep control” over American Anglicanism. It was that the Church of England was the established church in England, all its bishops were nominated by the crown and all were required by law to take, and had in fact taken, an “Oath of Supremacy” which forbade them from consecrating bishops not nominated by the crown, and from consecrating anyone who wasn’t prepared to take an oath of allegiance to the crown, which Seabury obviously wasn’t willing to do.
The Scottish bishops, not being part of an established church, had taken no such oath and were under no such constraints. If I recall correctly, Seabury was advised by English Anglicans to approach the Scottish bishops as a way out of the impasse.
It is the same meaning in the Catholic Church, Roman or not (Roman is the rite). We still think we’re universal, even though we realize that certain offshoots disagree.
Actually, “Latin” is the rite. There’s the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church, and then there are other rites of the RCC, and then there are other, non-Roman, Catholic churches. But don’t ask me to explain in any more detail than that.
Nope, the “Roman” rite is one of a number of Latin rites. There are - others.
I think you may be mixing up “Latin Rite” and “Latin Church”
Exactly right. The two main political parties in the UK are Conservative and Labour. I might describe myself as conservative, but not a Conservative.
Neat word. Only heard/knew of feminine version of it with history of women’s voting in US. Occurs to me know I don’t even know what that means. * Off to dictionary *
Sure auxiliary bishops are bishops. They’ve been ordained bishops at some point. They’re not the head of a see, so they don’t have those administrative duties (although they will likely have a titular see, as others have commented), but they are certainly bishops.
Their position is much the same as assistant priests in a large parish. An assistant priest isn’t the priest-in-charge, who is the administrative head of the clergy in a parish, but an assistant priest is certainly a priest, able to carry out all of the sacramental functions of a priest. Similarly, an auxiliary bishop has been ordained a bishop and is able to carry out all of the sacramental functions of a bishop, as well as whatever administrative duties the bishop of the see delegates to him.
Although some of them follow the Apostolic Succession anyways, as it makes things easier when dealing with other closely-aligned churches that do view it as essential. The largest Lutheran denomination in the USA brought it back about fifteen years ago, so it could be in full communion with the Episcopal Church.
Which I said. The distinction I was making was between auxiliary bishops (“auxiliary”, adjective; “bishop”, noun) and auxiliaries of the bishop, but like I said I’m not sure how is the distinction named in English. A presbyter can take up auxiliary functions temporarily without being named a bishop.
For example, Father Jesús Labiano, Abbot of Roncesvalles, was the auxiliary for congregations of the Archbishop of Pamplona and Bishop of Tudela for more than a year before it was decided to make the position permanent, at which point he got made a bishop (but not bishop of Roncesvalles, which was people’s first joking guess).
No relation.
The ladies, and their etymological relatives, “voting.” Or the hocks of animals, or intercessionary prayers, or their heels when they are praying for help in their political endeavors.
I'm not sure what you mean- if you mean a priest to whom a bishop has temporarily granted the authority to celebrate Confirmation, I don't think there is an English word for them. If on the other hand, you mean a priest who assists the bishop and his auxiliaries in running the diocese, they seemed to generally be called Episcopal Vicars for either a territory or a specific function. For example, my diocese has an Episcopal Vicar for Brooklyn and one for Queens in addition to vicars for communications, clergy, the migrant and ethnic apostolates, etc.
So, just read Wik on Westminster Abbey, which is neither this nor that, nor the other thing… And was cathedral in the years 1540-46.
My eyes are burnt from reading Alcuin and his pals all night. So, the Wiki was tl;dr. Any help?
Episcopal Vicar would be it, thank you.
Sure they are, though not very directly. But they both relate to the Latin word suffragium, meaning support. A person with suffrage shows support for a candidate through voting, and a suffragan bishop supports the metropolitan bishop by assisting with his duties.
Source: http://etymonline.com/index.php?term=suffragan
suffrage | Etymology of suffrage by etymonline