#episcopacy

[gnosisandtheosis]

The Apostolic Johannite Church and the Parish of St Teresa of Avila requests the blessing of your presence for the Episcopal Consecration of The Reverend Father Brenden Humberdross as Mar Synesius, Bishop of Queensland for the Apostolic Johannite Church during a celebration of the Johannite Gnostic Mass to be held

Saturday 21st September 2024 9:30am West End Uniting Church West End, Queensland Australia

[gnosisandtheosis]

Highlights from the episcopal consecration of Bishop Brenden Humberdross of the St Teresa of Avila parish of the Apostolic Johannite Church. Brisbane, Australia. September 2024.

[gnosisandtheosis]

Now that my epic week is over, I have a chance to post some pics. Last weekend our Patriarch, Mar Iohannes IV, came over from Canada to consecrate our priest to the episcopacy.

The whole weekend, and subsequent few days, was incredible. The service on Saturday not only had our priest becoming a bishop but one of our parishoners entered the minor order of Ostiarius (Doorkeeper). As a surprise for our new bishop a choir had been arranged to sing the alleluia and the Veni Creator Spiritus and they were incredible.

This church has been my spiritual home for 16 years or so and I couldn't imagine life without it.

(@queerjohannite I promised pics)

[apptowonder]

Not to start Discourse, but is there a reason why Orthodox laity get no say in who sits on the Holy Synod/who is elevated to the Episcopate?

[englishlistwords]

Episcopacy

NOUN

government of a Church by bishops.

(the episcopacy) the bishops of a region or church collectively.

the office of a bishop.

[thirstygargoyle]

… the Catholic Church does not maintain, and never has, that the bishops and the pope are “other apostles” in the strict sense of the word. She teaches something quite different, that they are “successors of the apostles”. What does this mean? There is not for one moment any question, nor has there ever been, that the bishops or even the pope may build anything at all on any foundation other than that laid by the apostles. They not in any way assume the role of new founders, more or less independent of the first. Their role is to preserve and transmit what was communicated directly by the apostles. The faith of the Catholic Church is not something different from the faith of the apostles. The Word proclaimed by the bishops is exactly that which the apostles were the first to teach.

Louis Bouyer, The Word, Church and Sacraments in Protestantism and Catholicism, 52.

[expatminister]

Si sanctus est oret pro nobis, si doctus est doceat nos, si prudens est regat nos.

Pope Francis' criteria for new bishops: "If holy let him pray for us, if learned teach us, if prudent govern us." ...or her, I'd want to add. But an appropriate attitude toward the stewards of the church & faith.