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To: Military family member

I don’t know how the RCC is organized geographically, but isn’t everyplace located in some archdiocese?, under the “jurisdiction” of some archbishop?

I’m asking you to explain, not just to say, “You’re wrong.”


53 posted on 03/24/2009 1:14:15 PM PDT by pogo101
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To: pogo101

There is no hierarchy like that. The Bishops have a lot of autonomy over their diocese. The next higher authority is the Pope, but even then, the Pope is concerned with matters of Faith and the Church as a whole. With extremely few exceptions the Pope does not concern himself with individual diocese. Remember, when John Paul II called the the American Bishops to Rome There is not higher power other than God.

An archbishop or a cardinal is simply a bishop is a bigger diocese. The Pope is the bishop of Rome. The Cardinals primary duty other than their diocese is to elect a new pope.


104 posted on 03/24/2009 5:57:42 PM PDT by Military family member (GO Colts!!)
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