BTW - it was Pope Benedict XVI’s wisdom that led to Metropolitan William receiving an omiphor (vs. a pallium), befitting his office and particular Eastern Catholic Church.
Huh?
Then the theme of a good portion of this [resurrected] thread has escaped you.
Please see the placement of my post. It twas right after someone asked “what is a pallium”
You should read the thread. There are those who regard the pallium as an imposition (in the bad sense of the word) of a Latin innovation. You should be more sensitive to that.
I am allowed to respond to a question of a person inside a thread…please see the placement of my quotes.
Thanks for the EWTN article on the Eastern liturgical symbol that he used --which also points to the Good Shepherd tending his sheep. I was not aware of such.
Thanks for the EWTN article on the Eastern liturgical symbol that he used --which also points to the Good Shepherd tending his sheep. I was not aware of such.
This picture made me chuckle
UnderstandablyThis picture made me chuckle
Following are the two codes. In common, the pallium is a sign of Metropolitan power. In New Commentary of the Code of Canon Law, p. 576, is stated that the Metropolitan Church sui iuris is: “autonomous in the sense that it is not subject to the authority of a Patriarch or Major Archbishop. It is directly subject to the authority of the Pope who can be thought of as exercising patriarchal authority over it.”
Yes, the contrast in the Codes is illuminating to the uninitiated, yet I’m
as to why you cite it in reference to my post. We have compared and contrasted the “powers” of Latin Church Metropolitans vs. EC Metropolitans of sui juris Churches before, in recent threads.Yet, His Holiness did not on this occasion give Metropolitan William a pallium, at least not literally, but the “equivalent” in Eastern tradition - despite the “letter of the law” in the CCEO - which would have past practice maintained: that is, imposing a Western vestment on an Eastern Metropolitan.I am only amplifying your post, not criticism or disagreement. Yes, it satisfies the canon, for it is the act of requesting and reception, the form could vary. It does not have to mean “the Latin pallium”. I never was able to find any sort of record of Ethiopian Metropolitan Archbishop Berhaneyesus Demerew Suoraphiel receiving a pallium, and he has ordained bishops since July 1999 when he was made Metropolitan.Yes, the contrast in the Codes is illuminating to the uninitiated, yet I’m
Got it
That would be interesting, if you could settle that one way or another.
Byzantine Catholic World, Vol 57 No 9 July 8, 2012, pp. 1, 6 statesGot it
That would be interesting, if you could settle that one way or another.
BTW - I can’t recall, but was the rumor that +Metropolitan Basil of Pittsburgh never received a pallium ever confirmed or dispelled?
ope presents hierarch with traditional eastern vestment … "Archbishop William C. Skurla, however, received not the pallium, but the omoforion, a traditional vestment unique to the Easter Catholic bishops. … “The pallium and omofor are essentially meant to symbolize the same thing,” explains Metropolitan William, who receive the vestment at the hand of the Pope Benedict during the early morning ceremony in Rome.I saw this quote in the BCW at the time of publication, and was somewhat puzzled at first by the generalization. In Eastern tradition, the Omophor is the vestment symbolic of spiritual and episcopal authority, worn by all bishops (as you well know, I’m sure), whereas today the pallium is unique to Metropolitans in the Latin tradition. No disrepect intended to His Eminence, whose response was certainly well intended and accurate in the context of the informal interview, but the statement is somewhat of a necessary generalization in such context, so as to avoid the need to delve into other differences.
Well, yes. But there is something different: the number of horizontal bars is 4. So one could compare the Latin (Metropolitan) pallium to the 4 bar (Metropolitan) Omophorion.
Yes, indeed that could be a distinguishing characteristic that might aid in the explanation. Yet, there are Eastern Catholic Metropolitans in Patriarchal Churches that will never receive the “pallium”, yet still wear a four-barred omophorion.