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The Catholic Church holds that the College of Bishops as a group is the successor of the College of Apostles. The Church also holds that uniquely among the apostles, Saint Peter, the first Bishop of Rome, was granted a role of leadership and authority, giving the pope the right to govern the Church together with the bishops. [42]
In Catholic teaching, the college of bishops is the successor to the college of the apostles. [1] While the individual members of the college of bishops are each directly responsible for pastoral care and governance in their own particular Church, the college as a whole has full supreme power over the entire Church:
The bishop or eparch of a see, even if he does not also hold a title such as archbishop, metropolitan, major archbishop, patriarch or pope, is the centre of unity for his diocese or eparchy, and, as a member of the College of Bishops, shares in responsibility for governance of the whole church (cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church, 886).
Holy Apostles Seminary – Diocesan seminary; opened in 1960. Formerly run by the Missionaries of the Holy Apostles. Novitiate and College of Humanities of the Legionaries of Christ – Seminary currently run by the Legionaries of Christ. St. John Fisher Seminary Residence – Diocesan seminary; opened in 1989.
Ex corde Ecclesiae (English: From the heart of the Church) is an apostolic constitution issued by Pope John Paul II regarding Catholic colleges and universities. Promulgated on 15 August 1990 [ 1 ] and intended to become effective in the academic year starting in 1991, its aim was to define and refine the Catholicism of Catholic institutions of ...
The Pontifical North American College (NAC) is a Roman Catholic educational institution in Rome, Italy, that prepares seminarians to become priests in the United States and elsewhere. The NAC also provides a residence for priests who are pursuing graduate work at other pontifical universities in Rome.
An auxiliary bishop is a full-time assistant to a diocesan bishop (the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox equivalent of an Anglican suffragan bishop). An auxiliary bishop is a titular bishop, and he is to be appointed as a vicar general or at least as an episcopal vicar of the diocese in which he serves. [39] Catholicos
College of New Rochelle (New Rochelle, New York) - founded in 1904 as New York state's first Catholic college for women; merged into Mercy University (Dobbs Ferry, New York) College of Saint Mary-of-the-Wasatch (Salt Lake City, Utah) College of Saint Teresa (Winona, Minnesota) College of Saint Thomas More (Fort Worth, Texas) Official site