Chapter,  Paragraph

  1  I (1)  |        their respective Synods of Bishops, endowed with legislative,
  2  I (1)  |         on the Pastoral Office of Bishops in the Church Christus Dominus,
  3  I,2    |          to appoint successors... Bishops have by divine institution
  4  I,2    |        Peter's Successor, and the Bishops, the successors of the Apostles,
  5  I,2    |       another”.(20) Thus, all the Bishops in common have received
  6  I,2    |    communion”.(22) The individual Bishops are in turn the source and
  7  I,3    |         undivided body has caused Bishops throughout the Church's
  8  I (24) |         262-264). For Councils of Bishops in the second and third
  9  I,3    |  conferences or assemblies of the Bishops in each province to be held
 10  I,4    |           reasons, Conferences of Bishops began to be established
 11  I,4    |        the Sacred Congregation of Bishops and Regulars issued on 24
 12  I,4    |        all parts of the world the Bishops of each country or region
 13  I (29) |         on the Pastoral Office of Bishops in the Church Christus Dominus,
 14  I,5    |       establish a Conference, the Bishops in question were to join
 15  I,5    |        the Pastoral Directory for Bishops stated once again that “
 16  I (31) |                  Congregation for Bishops, Directory Ecclesiae Imago,
 17  I (32) |         on the Pastoral Office of Bishops in the Church Christus Dominus,
 18  I (33) |         Inter-Regional Meeting of Bishops of Southern Africa (I.M.
 19  I (33) |         Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference (S.A.C.B.C.),
 20  I (33) |           the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences (F.A.B.C.),
 21  I (33) |        the Federation of Catholic Bishops' Conferences of Oceania (
 22  I,6    |           preferred means for the Bishops of a country or a specific
 23  I,6    |  effectively to unity between the Bishops, and thus to the unity of
 24  I,6    |           the individual Diocesan Bishops.~
 25  I,7    |          Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, held in 1985, acknowledged
 26 II      |         II~COLLEGIAL UNION ~AMONG BISHOPS~
 27 II,8    |            the collegial union of Bishops shows forth the nature of
 28 II,8    |         fact, through the body of Bishops “the apostolic tradition
 29 II,8    |  structure also of the College of Bishops, and is “an organic reality
 30 II,9    |         Collegially, the order of Bishops is, “together with its head,
 31 II,9    |           power which the body of Bishops possesses over the whole
 32 II,9    |          such collegial acts, the Bishops exercise a power which is
 33 II,9    |            head of the College of Bishops, they are not acting as
 34 II,9    |           that they are acting as Bishops of the Catholic Church,
 35 II,10   |      together by their respective Bishops. At the level of an individual
 36 II,10   |     Pontiff and to the College of Bishops as elements proper to the
 37 II,10   |    countries, regions, etc.), the Bishops in charge do not exercise
 38 II,10   |           those of the College of Bishops.~
 39 II,11   |      joint pastoral action of the Bishops of a geographic area, it
 40 II,11   |       even briefly—how individual Bishops, in their ordinary pastoral
 41 II,11   |          membership of individual Bishops in the College of Bishops
 42 II,11   |         Bishops in the College of Bishops is expressed, relative to
 43 II,11   |         the universal Church. All Bishops, in fact, must promote and
 44 II,11   |        body of the Churches”.(48)~Bishops contribute to the good of
 45 II,11   |          Certainly the individual Bishops, as teachers of the faith,
 46 II,11   |          of the entire College of Bishops. In fact, only the faithful
 47 II,11   |       assent of soul. In effect, “Bishops, teaching in communion with
 48 II,12   |                      12. When the Bishops of a territory jointly exercise
 49 II,12   |         collaboration between the Bishops at the regional, national
 50 II,12   |           actions of the order of Bishops as such, which alone holds
 51 II,12   |   relationship between individual Bishops and the College of Bishops
 52 II,12   |        Bishops and the College of Bishops is quite different from
 53 II,12   |        the actions of the body of Bishops is linked to the fact that “
 54 II (52) |                          Synod of Bishops of 1985, Final Report, II,
 55 II (53) |       John Paul II, Speech to the Bishops of the United States of
 56 II,12   |           Likewise the College of Bishops is not to be understood
 57 II,12   |           as the aggregate of the Bishops who govern the particular
 58 II,12   |           power of the College of Bishops over the whole Church is
 59 II,12   |          powers of the individual Bishops over their particular Churches;
 60 II,12   |       reality in which individual Bishops participate. They have no
 61 II,12   |          to the entire College of Bishops, which as a theological
 62 II (55) |           evident, there are many Bishops who are not heads of particular
 63 II (55) |           perform tasks proper to Bishops.~
 64 II,13   |       organizations formed by the Bishops of a certain territory (
 65 II,13   |    country, region, etc.) and the Bishops who are members of them
 66 II,13   |     exists between the College of Bishops and the individual Bishops.
 67 II,13   |        Bishops and the individual Bishops. The binding effect of the
 68 II,13   |   exercised within Conferences of Bishops and in communion with the
 69 II,13   |           power of the individual Bishops, specific areas of competence.~
 70 II,13   |           and aims with the other Bishops of the same geographic area,
 71 II (59) |        Gentium, 23; Decree on the Bishops' Pastoral Office in the
 72 II (60) |         on the Pastoral Office of Bishops in the Church Christus Dominus,
 73 III,14  |   description: “The Conference of Bishops, a permanent institution,
 74 III,14  |     institution, is a grouping of Bishops of a given country or territory
 75 III (61)|         on the Pastoral Office of Bishops in the Church Christus Dominus,
 76 III,15  |      Episcopal Conference, since “Bishops are frequently unable to
 77 III,15  |      closely every day with other Bishops”.(62) It is not possible
 78 III,15  |           for the joint action of Bishops include the promotion and
 79 III (62)|         on the Pastoral Office of Bishops in the Church Christus Dominus,
 80 III,16  |           they bring together the Bishops of one country only,(63)
 81 III,16  |       that it includes either the Bishops of some particular churches
 82 III,16  |          fact, “after hearing the Bishops involved, it pertains to
 83 III,16  |         change the Conferences of Bishops”.(65)~
 84 III,17  |     purpose of the Conferences of Bishops is to provide for the common
 85 III,17  |          include all the diocesan Bishops of the territory and those
 86 III,17  |        them, as well as coadjutor Bishops and the other titular Bishops
 87 III,17  |     Bishops and the other titular Bishops who exercise a special task
 88 III,17  |          vote belongs to diocesan Bishops and to those who are equivalent
 89 III,17  |           as well as to coadjutor Bishops; and this by reason of the
 90 III,17  |          members who are diocesan Bishops.(68) As regards auxiliary
 91 III,17  |              As regards auxiliary Bishops and other titular Bishops
 92 III,17  |         Bishops and other titular Bishops who are members of the Episcopal
 93 III,17  |       proportion between diocesan Bishops and auxiliary and other
 94 III,17  |       auxiliary and other titular Bishops should be taken into account,
 95 III,17  |        government of the diocesan Bishops. However, it is appropriate
 96 III,17  |         allow for the presence of Bishops emeriti, and that they have
 97 III,18  |        exist to be of help to the Bishops and not to substitute for
 98 III,19  |           diocesan Bishop and the Bishops equivalent to them in law.
 99 III,19  |        equivalent to them in law. Bishops “preside in the place of
100 III,19  |            By divine institution, Bishops have succeeded to the Apostles
101 III (73)|         on the Pastoral Office of Bishops in the Church Christus Dominus,
102 III,20  |          Episcopal Conference the Bishops jointly exercise the episcopal
103 III,20  |         binding on the individual Bishops, there is needed the intervention
104 III,20  |         the Episcopal Conference. Bishops, whether individually or
105 III,20  |          legislative power of the Bishops assembled in the Episcopal
106 III,20  |    Conference: “The Conference of Bishops can issue general decrees
107 III,20  | competence of individual diocesan Bishops remains intact; and neither
108 III,20  |        act in the name of all the Bishops unless each and every Bishop
109 III,21  |           teaching authority, the Bishops in communion with the head
110 III,21  |        gathered in Conferences of Bishops or in particular councils,
111 III,21  |   authentic teaching of their own Bishops with a sense of religious
112 III,21  |  competence of the Conferences of Bishops, such as providing “that
113 III,21  |        The concerted voice of the Bishops of a determined territory,
114 III,21  |        their teaching office, the Bishops serve the word of God, to
115 III,21  |        bond of her communion, the Bishops, assembled in Episcopal
116 III,22  |           changes in society, the Bishops assembled in the Episcopal
117 III,22  |  magisterium. For this reason the Bishops are to be careful to avoid
118 III,22  |         the doctrinal work of the Bishops of other territories, bearing
119 III,22  |      authentic magisterium of the Bishops, namely what they teach
120 III,22  |          magisterium of their own Bishops. However, if this unanimity
121 III,22  |           a majority alone of the Bishops of a Conference cannot issue
122 III,23  |         of the teaching office of Bishops requires that, when they
123 III,24  |    contact between the individual Bishops and the Apostolic See is
124 III,24  |          Assembly of the Synod of Bishops of 1985, and they aim at
125 III (85)|                          Synod of Bishops of 1985, Final Report, II,
126 IV      |     REGARDING ~THE CONFERENCES OF BISHOPS~Art. 1. – In order that
127 IV      | declarations of the Conference of Bishops referred to in No. 22 of
128 IV      |       unanimously approved by the Bishops who are members, or receive
129 IV      |           least two thirds of the Bishops belonging to the Conference
130 IV      |   Commission of the Conference of Bishops must be authorized explicitly