There's definitely a need for dioceses not to be gigantic, far-flung things with precious little relevance to the life of the parishes. How it can be cheaper to have more bishops who also do more I do not know, but it's surely better for the life of the Church (anywhere) in the long run.
I think the key to the logic is that each be of these diocese have a full time auxiliary Bishop and Ierokyrix (Bishop in training) not to mention staff that maybe could be divided among a smaller diocese
Short version, he's planning on creating more dioceses?
ReplyDeleteAnd I expect some reduction in metropolitan's power. Will they still be ruling hierarchs of auxiliaries with august titles. TBD.
ReplyDeleteThere's definitely a need for dioceses not to be gigantic, far-flung things with precious little relevance to the life of the parishes. How it can be cheaper to have more bishops who also do more I do not know, but it's surely better for the life of the Church (anywhere) in the long run.
ReplyDeleteI think the key to the logic is that each be of these diocese have a full time auxiliary Bishop and Ierokyrix (Bishop in training) not to mention staff that maybe could be divided among a smaller diocese
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