Word: episcopus
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...became clear that the opposition, once strong, had melted before the papal presence. Rather than embarrass the Pope, many of the American bishops, who principally feared Protestant reaction in the U.S. to the doctrine of papal infallibility, had gone quietly home. But the Most Rev. Edward Fitzgerald, 36, episcopus petriculanus, bishop of Little Rock, Ark., had changed his mind and decided to stay. When his name was called, he answered with a firm non placet, thereby assuring himself a footnote in the history of the church...
...knew that these bones must have been important. The cloth was of rich purple material and was worked with pure gold. I went on studying the inscriptions on the wall and deciphered them. I found the name of Peter, sometimes in the form of the initials P.E. [for Petrus Episcopus, or Bishop Peter] and as a capital P with three horizontal sidestrokes at the base of the vertical stroke-probably the origin of the key of Peter...
...medieval church was strong on mummery. A common ecclesiastical practice was to elect a "boy bishop" (Episcopus Puerorum) to hold office from the Eve of St. Nicholas, Dec. 5, to Holy Innocents' Day, Dec. 28. Salisbury Cathedral contains an elaborate monument to such a boy bishop who died "in office" and was buried with full episcopal honors...
...Summus Episcopus. During the German Protestant Church struggle between Nazi and non-Nazi factions (TIME, June 12, et seq.) Premier Göring pitched in by announcing that he had assumed the ancient religious title of the Kings of Prussia, Summns Episcopus of the Prussian Protestant Church. By virtue of this office Captain Göring kept up maximum Nazi pressure on Protestants in Prussia, during and after the carefully fixed church plebiscite which was "won" by the Nazi "German Christians" (TIME, July 31). Fortnight ago the church elders elected as 'Primate of Prussia" at Premier Göring...
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