== Responding to message from Dale R. Streeter <[log in to unmask]>
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>> The short answer is that the bishop is the ordinary of a diocese, it
>> is he who holds the "ordinary" power or legal authority under canon
>> law to perform all the functions he is responsible for (teaching,
>> preaching, administration of the sacraments). This use is reflected
>> in the German custom of calling a full professor the "ordinarius" in
>> a particular faculty.
Is there a connection here, etymological or otherwise, to "ordination"?
--Christopher
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