episcopate

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Religion journalist Terry Mattingly of the GetReligion.org blog noted that Bishop Rohrer’s new episcopate is facing a sharp drop in “active participants,” down from 32,445 in 2012 to 25,043 in 2019.

From Washington Times • Sep. 15, 2021

The Maltese archbishop Charles Scicluna, a Vatican expert on paedophilia among the priesthood, will visit Poland next month, the Polish episcopate said on Thursday.

From The Guardian • May 17, 2019

The Polish episcopate and local bishop acknowledged the burning, but declined to comment, AFP reported.

From Fox News • Apr. 1, 2019

Healing will not begin until the episcopate reveals to the world what true repentance looks like, and makes that repentance visible through a change in behavior.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 16, 2018

It is remarkable that the episcopate of his successor in the see of Killaloe was equally short; for, Tirlogh, in Latin Theodoricus O'Brien, appointed its bishop in June, 1539, died before December the same year.

From Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, July 1865 by