Woman Bishops??

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Hello everyone. I don’t want to open up any debate here, I am just looking for a bit of information. I have never been to Rome, but someone I know went there and visited the catecombs. Anyways, this person said that she saw that there were 3 woman bishops that were buried there and they are clearly labeled as bishops. Does anyone know if this is this true? Again. This is not a debate. I didn’t know how to respond to that, since it was the first time I had ever heard of it.
 
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Hello everyone. I don’t want to open up any debate here, I am just looking for a bit of information. I have never been to Rome, but someone I know went there and visited the catecombs. Anyways, this person said that she saw that there were 3 woman bishops that were buried there and they are clearly labeled as bishops. Does anyone know if this is this true? Again. This is not a debate. I didn’t know how to respond to that, since it was the first time I had ever heard of it.
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Ask her to prove her statement. If she is right it should be documented someplace. It is very possible that she did not understand what was going on or that the guide said something wrong. To be honest I would not trust any of the public guides employed by the City of Rome to discuss any religious topic. I grew up in Rome and I heard the weirdest legends but this is news to me.
 
St_Gabriel said:
Hello everyone. I don’t want to open up any debate here, I am just looking for a bit of information. I have never been to Rome, but someone I know went there and visited the catecombs. Anyways, this person said that she saw that there were 3 woman bishops that were buried there and they are clearly labeled as bishops. Does anyone know if this is this true? Again. This is not a debate. I didn’t know how to respond to that, since it was the first time I had ever heard of it.
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I believe I’ve heard this one before. I think the answer was the by the name they were given (some feminized version of bishop or something) was indicative that they were the bishop’s wife.

Here’s an old answer from the forum.
 
St Brigid is said in some versions of her tale to have been consecrated a bishop. However, given that my ancestors who gave us St Brigid also gave us the Blarney Stone, I wouldn’t put much stock in it. :irish2:

More likely they were wives of bishops (permitted in the very early church) or happened to be named “Bishop.”
 
Also, there are statues around Rome that look like women bishops, but actually represent Mother Church.
 
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