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206:("boldly") and without fear, unlike the situation in earlier synods where officials of the curia would rule out discussion of contentious issues. A further example is the unprecedented degree to which he drew on the teaching documents of fifteen national bishops' conferences and two larger regional conferences from Latin America and Asia for his encyclical on the environment, 164:
Since Vatican II there has been an ongoing debate about the authority of bishops' conferences between advocates of centralization of authority in the Vatican, who play down the importance of bishops' conferences, and supporters of decentralization, who emphasize their importance. In 1998, Pope John
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Just as in the Gospel, the Lord so disposing, St. Peter and the other apostles constitute one apostolic college, so in a similar way the Roman Pontiff, the successor of Peter, and the bishops, the successors of the apostles, are joined together.… The order of bishops, which succeeds to the college
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which gave the pope universal power to appoint bishops, ignoring the traditional principle of free election of bishops. This system of appointments, coupled with modern communications and the system of papal nuncios who could override local decisions, reduced the power of bishops and made the popes
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During the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the papacy amassed considerable power, as monastic reformers saw it as a way to counter corrupt bishops while bishops saw it as an ally against the interference of secular rulers. As early as the fourteenth century, opposition to this centralization of
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refers to "the Pope governing the Church in collaboration with the bishops of the local Churches, respecting their proper autonomy." In the early church the popes sometimes exercised moral authority rather than administrative power, and that authority was not exercised extremely often; regional
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of apostles and gives this apostolic body continued existence, is also the subject of supreme and full power over the universal Church, provided we understand this body together with its head the Roman Pontiff and never without this head.
141:. The traditionalist minority, however, opposed collegiality as undermining the authority of the Pope and changing the church from "monarchical to ‘episcopalian’ and collegial." In 1964 the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, 147:, set forth the general principle that the bishops formed a college, which succeeds and gives continuing existence to the college of the apostles. The next year Pope Paul VI issued a letter on his own initiative, 944: 1002: 837: 55:
that local hierarchies and regional synods be strengthened. This opposition to centralization was tested when a group of cardinals, allied with secular rulers, called a council to resolve the
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for liturgical translations. The change has been described "as one of Pope Francis’s strongest moves yet in terms of fostering greater collegiality in the Catholic Church."
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simply by receiving papal approval. The new constitution also provides for the laity to send their contributions directly to the synod's secretary general.
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churches elected their own bishops, resolved disputes in local synods, and only felt the need to appeal to the Pope under special circumstances.
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minority at the Council. The reformers did not see this as undermining church tradition, but as going back to the original practice of
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in the development of Church teachings. He put this concern into practice when he urged the Synod of Bishops to speak with
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examined the themes of synodality and the "healthy decentralisation" of the church during its meeting of February 2016.
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was superior to the pope, the advocates of collegiality proposed that the bishops only act with and under the pope (
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of the Western Church (1378 – 1417), in which several rivals had claimed to be pope. The Councils of
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The nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a period some church historians have called the "
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of the Apostolic See," which they will not receive if the majority "is not substantial."
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Bishops who objected to this recent consolidation of papal authority proposed at the
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to use the traditional collegial model to limit the centralizing tendencies of the
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of the Pope's teachings, although during the council Cardinal Filippo Maria Guidi,
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Apostolos suos; On the Theological and Juridical Nature of Episcopal Conferences
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The Conciliarist Tradition: Constitutionalism in the Catholic Church 1300-1870
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claimed authority to judge the popes, deposed various claimants, and elected
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Theology of Pope Francis § Decentralization and synodal governance
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Decree Concerning the Pastoral Office of Bishops; Christus Dominus
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O'Malley, John W., S. J. (2008), "The Long Nineteenth Century",
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On the Theological and Juridical Nature of Episcopal Conferences
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Apostolic letter issued motu proprio Apostolica sollicitudo
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How the synod process is different under Pope Francis
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Index

Collegiality (Catholic Church)
Collegiality
Guillaume Durand
Council of Vienne
Great Schism
Pisa
Constance
Pope Martin V
long nineteenth century
First Vatican Council
infallibility
O.P.
a Code of Canon Law
Theology of Pope Francis § Decentralization and synodal governance
Second Vatican Council
Roman Curia
conciliarists
ecumenical council
traditionalist
Peter
Apostles
Lumen gentium
synod of bishops
Christus Dominus
motu proprio
Pope Francis
Argentine Bishops' Conference
synodality
Laudato si'
Council of Cardinals

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