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**ThekvandoVideo** · 03-14-2009, 08:55 PM

There is only one pertinent question here. All the rest is tittle tattle. CANONICALLY under what circumstances and according to what process may a diocesan bishop be reassigned to auxiliary status in the jurisdiction of another bishop?

Of course this presupposes that there is a canonical basis for an auxiliary bishop in the first place. As we know the practical situation on the ground in Church history has sometimes been arguably at variance with the canons but for good reason.*

Extra-canonically or canonically there may be good reasons for the Holy Synod's GLOBAL decision ... but I am not privy to those "good reasons." One thing of which I am sure is that canon law is not my strong point. Can anyone enlighten?

*A good example here concerns the choriepiscopoi - which were of course eventually suppressed.

03-14-2009, 08:55 PM	#24
ThekvandoVideo Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 396 Senior Member	There is only one pertinent question here. All the rest is tittle tattle. CANONICALLY under what circumstances and according to what process may a diocesan bishop be reassigned to auxiliary status in the jurisdiction of another bishop? Of course this presupposes that there is a canonical basis for an auxiliary bishop in the first place. As we know the practical situation on the ground in Church history has sometimes been arguably at variance with the canons but for good reason.* Extra-canonically or canonically there may be good reasons for the Holy Synod's GLOBAL decision ... but I am not privy to those "good reasons." One thing of which I am sure is that canon law is not my strong point. Can anyone enlighten? *A good example here concerns the choriepiscopoi - which were of course eventually suppressed.
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