medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On 06/04/2011 14:56, Thomas Izbicki wrote:
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> That may be an example of naming a suffragan, which I have seen occasionally documented in the footnotes to Eubel's Hierarchia. It seems also to have covered absentee bishops who were elsewhere (like Rome).
> Most of those bishops I have encountered had sees in partibus infidelium, but some were absent from their own sees./
In England it was fairly normal to appoint an Irish bishop as a
suffragan. (Most of them seem never to have visted their own sees - did
Ireland count as "in partibus infidelium"? I have always had the
suspicion that the Irish didn't become Catholic until the
Reformation...) There was merriment a few years ago in Chichester
Diocese when an Australian Suffragan was appointed - it was suggested
that this exceeded the worst practices of the Middle Ages!
John Briggs
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