Do kneel on your left knee and kiss his ring when you meet your Bishop?

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I have read that you are supposed to, and you’re also supposed to address him as “Your Excellency”. Do you?
 
ukdal1 said:
I have read that you are supposed to, and you’re also supposed to address him as “Your Excellency”. Do you?
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I meet our bishop often and just shake his hand and call him “Bishop.”
 
Joannm said:
I meet our bishop often and just shake his hand and call him “Bishop.”
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I have met four different Bishops. In each case, I shook his hand and called him Bishop (Surname). I never knew about ring-kissing even when I met the Bishop who Confirmed me at the reception following my Confirmation when I was 14 years old back in 1983.
 
When I was presented to the bishop in a long line as a candidate in RCIA, he stuck his hand out and shook ours. Not a ring kissing moment.
 
If I knelt on my left knee, I would fall over!:o - no sense of balance on my left knee. If I was going to kneel it would be on my right knee. I have never in latter years knelt and kissed his ring. Nowadays we just shake hands on the rare occasions we have met. Blessings - Barb:)
 
I might. But if genuflection for Communion is replaced with standing, then it would feel wrong to kneel to a bishop.
 
ukdal1 said:
I have read that you are supposed to, and you’re also supposed to address him as “Your Excellency”. Do you?
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Yes. But I do so on the right knee, because to do so is not wrong and there was never a regulation for using the left. It’s easier. 😃
 
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