Groupings of Particular Churches

Question 1

Four topics covered in Chapter II of Book II the people of God

Answer 1

Provinces and Regions
Metropolitans
Councils, not ecumenical
Episcopal conferences

Question 2

what is the purpose of a province?

Answer 2

to foster pastoral collaboration among particular churches as appropriate
foster communion among neighboring bishops

Question 3

who establishes particular churches and therefore provinces, do they have juridical personality?

Answer 3

The Pope
By the law itself

Question 4

Who is a metropolitan?

Answer 4

residential archbishop or chief shepherd of a particular church to whom the task of presiding over the province and occasionally facilitating its pastoral activity has been attached by papal determination/approbation

Question 5

which canon explains the rights duties of metropolitans?

Answer 5

Canon 436

Question 6

What is the pallium, what canon?

Answer 6

Can 437, it represents papal authority, required to get it in three months, can only where it in the region, and must get new one if transfered.

Question 7

What is a plenary council?

Answer 7

involving all particular churches of a conference.

Question 8

What is a providential council.

Answer 8

involving all particular churches of a given province.

Question 9

Which canons handle Episcopal conferences?

Answer 9

Cans 447-459

Question 10

What is the purpose of an Episcopal conference?

Answer 10

Can. 447 A conference of bishops, a permanent institution, is a group of bishops of some nation or certain territory who jointly exercise certain pastoral functions for the Christian faithful of their territory in order to promote the greater good which the Church offers to humanity, especially through forms and programs of the apostolate fittingly adapted to the circumstances of time and place, according to the norm of law.

Question 11

who can establish supress or alter a bishop’s conference?

Answer 11

the supreme authority of the Church.

Question 12

who are members of the conference of bishops?

Answer 12

Can. 450 §1. To a conference of bishops belong by the law itself all diocesan bishops in the territory, those equivalent to them in law, coadjutor bishops, auxiliary bishops, and other titular bishops who perform in the same territory a special function entrusted to them by the Apostolic See or conference of bishops. Ordinaries of another rite can also be invited though in such a way that they have only a consultative vote unless the statutes of the conference of bishops decree otherwise.

Question 13

is the legate of the roman pontiff a member of a conference?

Answer 13

no

Question 14

what must a conference of bishops have?

Answer 14

statues approved by Rome.

Question 15

who must a conference of bishop have?

Answer 15

a president

Question 16

how often should meetings be held

Answer 16

at-least once a year.

Question 17

who has deliberative votes in a conference?

Answer 17

diocesan bishops or those equivalent to them in law and coadjutor bishops

Question 18

can Auxiliary bishops and other bishops have deliberative or consultative votes

Answer 18

yes if in statues, but never on changing of statues.

Question 19

who is the general secretary what does he do?

Answer 19

Can. 458 It is for the general secretariat:

1/ to prepare a report of the acts and decrees of a plenary meeting of a conference and the acts of the permanent council of bishops, to communicate the same to all the members of the conference, and to draw up other acts whose preparation the president of the conference or the permanent council entrusts to the general secretary;

2/ to communicate to neighboring conferences of bishops the acts and documents which the conference in plenary meeting or the permanent council of bishops decides to send to them.