In his persistant, long-suffering and never-ending crusade to try and gently
correct the legions of misconceptions which I seem to cultivate like weeds,
the Elastic Doctor wrote:
>No. A province is different from an archdiocese. An archdiocese is the see
of an archbishop. A province is an area containing several parishes, the
principal one being the archdiocese.....
Thank you, Doc, for the correction.
I think I picked up the "province" idea ad hoc from the GC and just assumed
the two terms were interchangeable, there being nothing particularly "special"
about the "[arch]diocese" of an Archbishop that I could see (e.g., the diocese
of Chartres, was, in the MA, considerably larger than the [arch]diocese of
Sens, in whose Province it was), and the Archbishop of Sens seems to have
been, in his own [arch]diocese, essentially "just" a Bishop, the see being
divided into archedeaconries, prevôtés, etc., just like any other.
I'm curious about your use of the term "parishes" there, however, D.E.
Surely not a slip, but wouldn't "containing several *dioceses*..." be
more accurate.
Or do you think of a Diocese as a sort of "Archparish"?
Then, just when I think I've finally got it straight, Stan Metheny
muddies the waters with
>...Even in C. 435, Metropolitans (archbishops who are heads of
provinces) are said to head a diocese (dioecesis) not an archdiocese.
Which would seem to take my part--makes perfect sense to me.
Just happens to be wrong, is all.
Apparently.
Wouldn't one way of looking at it be that they "head" a diocese (or, in
Elastic nomenclature, an archdiocese) in their role as a, as it were, Bishop,
while simultaneously also "heading" Metropolitan Provinces when wearing their
Archbishop's hat?
And, what's all this business about Archepiscopal toes?:
"metropolitan toe. (The allusion is obscure.)
1642 Milton Apol. Smect. 19 A Bishops foot that hath all his Toes..and a
linnen Sock over it, is the aptest emblem of the Prelate himselfe. Who being a
pluralist, may under one Surplice which is also linnen, hide
foure benefices besides the metropolitan toe.
1673 [R. Leigh] Transp. Reh. 127 When Archbishop Abbot was suspended we might
say his metropolitan toe was cut off."
?
Best from here,
Christopher
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