At 12:15 30/07/99 -0400, you wrote:
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>Naming Latin bishops to see no longer in Latin hands was common by the
>14th century. The extent to which the popes thought they might be able to
>install those bishops (e.fg. the Latin patriarch of Alexandria) in
>their sees bears contemplating. They probably did not think of the
>Levant as permanently in the hands of non-Latin Christians and/or Muslims.
>
>Tom Izbicki
In rather the same way, the Benedictines have titular abbots of the
monasteries suppressed at the reformation. There is, for example, a titular
Abbot of Westminster, who would be very happy to have his rightful property
back when Her Majesty has finished with it.
Oriens.
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