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A chorbishop is a rank of Christian clergy below bishop. The name chorepiscope or chorepiscopus (plural chorepiscopi) is taken from the Greek χωρεπίσκοπος and means "rural bishop".
History
Chorepiscopi are first mentioned by
The first mentions of chorepiscopi in the Western church are from the 5th or 6th century, where they were found mainly in Germany (especially Bavaria) and the Frankish lands.[3] In the Western Church, they were treated as auxiliary bishops and operated like archdeacons or vicars general.[4] They gradually disappeared as an office by the 12th century in the West[4] and were replaced by archdeacons to administer subdivisions of a diocese.
In the
Present practice
Some
The Churches of the
In the Maronite Church, a chorbishop is the highest of the three Median Orders, ranking above the orders of archdeacon and periodeut. Like a bishop, a chorbishop is ordained, and entitled to all vestments proper to a bishop, including the mitre (hat) and crozier (staff).[6] The Synod of Mt. Lebanon (1736) limited only the jurisdiction of a chorbishop, permitting him to ordain to the minor orders (cantor, reader and the subdiaconate), but not the major orders of diaconate, priesthood, or episcopacy.[7] The manuscript tradition of the Syriac Maronite Church demonstrates that the same text is used for the imposition of hand for both bishops and chorbishops.[8] The title of the ordination for a chorbishop reads, in fact, "The chirotony by which are completed the chorbishops and the metropolitans and the high orders of priesthood."[9] The role of protosyncellus (vicar general) is often filled by a chorbishop.
See also
References
- ^ a b Ott, Michael T. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.).
- ^ Chorbishop? Bishop – AmericanCatholic.org
- ISBN 1-57958-282-6.
- ^ ISBN 9781593333911. Retrieved May 9, 2014.
- ISBN 90-429-1318-5
- ^ Father Elia of St. Sharbel's named a chorbishop Archived 2006-05-24 at the Wayback Machine. (August 5, 2001) Catholic Post. Accessed 2006-08-20.
- ^ Coll Lac, Vol. 2, col. 277; Mansi, Vol. 38, cole. 157ff,; R. Janin, Les Églises orientales et les rites orienteaux, pp. 459,460.
- ^ Doueihi, STD, Bishop Stephen Hector (2008). The Maronite Pontifical. Richmond, VA: Saint Maron Publications. p. 376.
- ^ Vat. 309 (75c.)
Books
- Zaplotnik, John Leo (1927). De vicariis foraneis. "Chapter IV." (in Latin). Washington: Catholica universitas Americae, 1927.