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  1      2, Arg  |       DURING THE INTERVAL OF THE BISHOP'S ABSENCE.~
  2      3, I    |          with the memory of your bishop, but what ought to afford
  3      3, I    |      proportion as the fall of a bishop is an event which tends
  4      3, I    |         and helpful thing when a bishop, by the firmness of his
  5      6, I    |       gladness, the share of the bishop is the greatest. For the
  6      6, I    |       Church is the glory of the bishop. In proportion as we grieve
  7      9, I    |          future judgment nor the bishop now placed over them, claim
  8      9, I    |    discredit and contempt of the bishop?~
  9      9, II   |    imposition of the hand of the bishop and clergy receive the right
 10      9, II   |       yet made, the hands Of the bishop and clergy are not yet laid
 11     10, I    |        God nor the honour of the bishop. Although you sent letters
 12     11, II   |         me, nor reserving to the bishop the honour of his priesthood
 13     11, II   |          unless the hands of the bishop and clergy be first imposed
 14     20, III  |      remain as they are, until a bishop should be appointed. But,
 15     21, II   |       being set forth before the bishop, and confession being made,
 16     25, I    |         I.~To Caecilius Cyprian, bishop of the church of the Carthaginians,
 17     25, V    |          than to our so reverend bishop, as destined victims asking
 18     26, I    |       describing the honour of a bishop and the order of His Church,
 19     26, I    |     Church is established in the bishop and the clergy, and all
 20     29, II   |         in remitting them to the bishop they conceived that they
 21     30, V    |        most noble memory, had no bishop appointed as yet, on account
 22     30, VIII |      before the appointment of a bishop l but we believe that the
 23     30, VIII |  meantime, whilst the grant of a bishop is withheld from us by God,
 24     37, I    |         tried to divide with the bishop a portion of the people;
 25     37, II   |          their stipends from the bishop who dispenses them, which,
 26     37, II   |          considering neither his bishop nor his Church, has equally
 27     39, II   |          not to agree with their bishop, not to maintain the ecclesiastical
 28     39, IV   |      there; and so, although the bishop ought to be careful for
 29     40, I    |      that Novatian had been made bishop; disturbed by the wickedness
 30     40, II   |       and understand that when a bishop is once made and approved
 31     41, I    |       and worse, has appointed a bishop for itself, and, contrary
 32     41, III  |        letters to have been made bishop, unless there had been a
 33     43, I    |       had consented that another bishop should be made. That is
 34     45, I    |      imposed on him as if upon a bishop. And when these and other
 35     45, II   |           know that Cornelius is bishop of the most holy Catholic
 36     45, II   |     Church there ought to be one bishop." Were we not rightly induced
 37     47, I    |         Zetus has been appointed bishop in his room, and his successor
 38     48, I    |      that Evaristus from being a bishop has now not remained even
 39     48, II   |       the brethren here from the bishop; who, in the persecution
 40     48, II   |      Church, in the other made a bishop. Nor let any one be surprised
 41     49, I    |         peace with Cornelius our bishop, as well as with the whole
 42     51, Arg  |          HOLD COMMUNION WITH HIS BISHOP AND SO WITH THE CATHOLIC
 43     51, V    |      then still acting without a bishop, and to the confessors,
 44     51, V    |          gathered together, with bishop, presbyters, deacons, and
 45     51, VIII |         Lord God, who made him a bishop, and from the testimony
 46     51, VIII |           use force to be made a bishop, but he himself suffered
 47     51, VIII |          office. And he was made bishop by very many of our colleagues
 48     51, VIII |     Moreover, Cornelius was made bishop by the judgment of God and
 49     51, VIII | whosoever now wishes to become a bishop, must needs be made from
 50     51, XIV  |          by the discourse of the bishop, that we must not sacrifice
 51     51, XXI  |   Catholic Church endures, every bishop disposes and directs his
 52     51, XXIV |          he seems to you to be a bishop, who--when a bishop has
 53     51, XXIV |         be a bishop, who--when a bishop has been made in the Church
 54     51, XXIV |        adulterous and extraneous bishop by the hands of deserters;
 55     51, XXIV |          he had before been made bishop, since he has cut himself
 56     51, XXIV |        power nor the honour of a bishop, since he has refused to
 57     52, I    |       the purpose of ordaining a bishop, Superius, our brother and
 58     53, IV   |        necessary to him from the bishop, since he is about to have
 59     54, Arg  |         WITH THE CONTEMPT OF ONE BISHOP IN THE CHURCH.~
 60     54, I    |          with which it behoves a bishop to act. From which Church
 61     54, II   |        terror or the danger to a bishop, who lives subject to terrors
 62     54, V    |          a judge, not now of the bishop, but of God. No one would
 63     54, VI   |     speak as constrained--when a bishop is appointed into the place
 64     54, IX   |   communion with us--their false bishop in that place; and yet I
 65     54, X    |      that Fortunatus a pretended bishop, worthy of his college.
 66     54, X    |   desiring Fortunatus as a false bishop for themselves, that so,
 67     54, XI   |      come from Numidia to make a bishop for them. After they were
 68     54, XIV  |         they still dare--a false bishop having been appointed for
 69     54, XV   |      after they saw that a false bishop was made there, learned
 70     54, XVI  |      here to any one, nor is the bishop denied to any. Our patience,
 71     54, XXII |         Church of Christ and the bishop Cornelius, the blessed martyr,
 72     54, XXII |        Church --which is its one bishop chosen by divine appointment--
 73     54, XXII |          are associated with the bishop in priestly honour--which
 74     54, XXIII|         had come, so, now that a bishop returns as a confessor of
 75     58, Arg  |        BUT FORBIDS THERAPIUS THE BISHOP TO DO IT IN OTHER CASES.~
 76     63       |    FORTUNATIANUS, FORMERLY THEIR BISHOP.~
 77     63, Arg  |         LAPSER, BUT THEIR FORMER BISHOP, TO RETURN TO HIS EPISCOPATE,
 78     63, I    |          Fortunatianus, formerly bishop among you, after the sad
 79     64       |        WHO CONTENDED AGAINST THE BISHOP.~
 80     64, Arg  |      Argument.~CYPRIAN WARNS THE BISHOP ROGATIANUS TO RESTRAIN THE
 81     64, III  |       priest, and to satisfy the bishop set over him with full humility.
 82     66, Arg  |          Argument.~AS MARCIANUS, BISHOP OF ARLES, WHEN HE FOLLOWED
 83     66, II   |       the true priest; while the Bishop Cornelius was ordained in
 84     67, V    |     prelate is ordained. And the bishop should be chosen in the
 85     67, V    |         also warns, and says, "A bishop must be blameless, as the
 86     68, III  |        you, who appoint yourself bishop of a bishop, and judge of
 87     68, III  |     appoint yourself bishop of a bishop, and judge of a judge, given
 88     68, IV   |   property of Caecilius Cyprian, bishop of the Christians;" so that
 89     68, IV   |      believe in God appointing a bishop, could still believe in
 90     68, IV   |          the devil proscribing a bishop. Nor do I boast of these
 91     68, V    |        and heresies, in that the bishop who is one and rules over
 92     68, V    |    brotherhood has neither had a bishop, nor the people a prelate,
 93     68, VII  |  directed letters to Cyprian the bishop, acknowledging the priest
 94     68, VIII |       you ought to know that the bishop is in the Church, and the
 95     68, VIII |    Church, and the Church in the bishop; and if any one be not with
 96     68, VIII |          any one be not with the bishop, that he is not in the Church,
 97     70, Arg  |     ANSWER IS GIVEN TO QUINTUS A BISHOP IN MAURITANIA, WHO HAS ASKED
 98     71, Arg  |         TELLS STEPHEN, THE ROMAN BISHOP, THAT IT HAD BEEN DECREED
 99     73, Arg  |          AS WE LEARN, WAS THEN A BISHOP OF THE ROMAN CHURCH, NOT
100     73, II   |          while Hyginus was still bishop, who was the ninth bishop
101     73, II   |        bishop, who was the ninth bishop in that city,--whom Marcion
102     73, X    |    Timothy, and warns him that a bishop must not be "litigious,
103     73, X    |       learning. For it behoves a bishop not only to teach, but also
104     74       |                LXXIV. FIRMILIAN, BISHOP OF CAESAREA IN CAPPADOCIA,
105     74, Arg  |          ACERBITY THAN BECOMES A BISHOP, CHIEFLY FOR THE REASON,
106     75, III  |     Cornelius, who succeeded the bishop Fabian by lawful ordination,
107     75, III  |          can he be reckoned as a bishop, who, succeeding to no one,
108     75, IV   |        not being cast out by the bishop, but of his own accord deserting
109     75, VI   |     schism, and, forsaking their bishop, appoint another false bishop
110     75, VI   |    bishop, appoint another false bishop for themselves without,--
111     78, Arg  |       LETTER OF LUCIUS THE ROMAN BISHOP, BUT OF LUCIUS THE AFRICAN
112     78, Arg  |        BUT OF LUCIUS THE AFRICAN BISHOP AND MARTYR.~
113     81, Arg  |      Argument.~CYPRIAN TELLS THE BISHOP SUCCESSUS, THAT IN A SEVERE
114     81, Arg  |      EMPEROR VALERIAN XISTUS THE BISHOP HAD SUFFERED AT ROME ON
115     82, I    |      reason that it is fit for a bishop, in that city in which he
116     82, I    |        will be mutilated if I, a bishop placed over another church,