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Day 213: Bishops and the Episcopacy

The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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The Office of Sanctifying, Teaching and Governing

"You cannot speak of the church without talking about the episcopacy, the presbyderate and the deaconate," he says. "The priesthood was not a latter invention; this has its roots in the old covenant." The bishop is responsible for every soul in his diocese, Pope Francis writes. He's also spiritually responsible for every person in that diocese.

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