.... . . Est princeps in Republica sicut caput, et Respublica in a famous chapter in which it is said that "the bishop is in the Church, and the Church in the bishop."406 Gratian, of course, and other canonical collections before him — such as that of Ivo...

...defenders of episcopal authority, summarized his vision of the episcopacy in the following familiar text: "Whence you ought to know that the bishop is in the Church and the Church is in the bishop, and if there is anyone who is not with the bishop, he is not in the Church."15 Yet...

...conception which interests us here: 'You must know,' he writes to his addressee, Florentius Pupianus, 'that the bishop is in the Church and the Church in the bishop.'1 Nobody will have any quarrel with the first half of this statement ('the bishop is in the...

...the church: the people united to their priest and the flock adhering to their shepherd. From which you ought to know that the bishop is in the church and the church in the bishop; and if any should not be with the bishop, they are not in the church." The bishop's position of honor...

...they are the Church who are a people united to the priest, and the flock which adheres to its pastor. Whence you ought to know that the bishop is in the Church, and the Church in the bishop; and if any one be not with the bishop, that he is not in the Church, and that those flatter themselves...

...mid-third century, is also invoked: The Church is the people united to its shepherd. From this you should know that the bishop is in the Church and the Church in the bishop.' That is to say that the mutual indwelling of the flock and its Good Shepherd Jesus Christ cannot be...

...Constitution Pastor Aeternus: Denz. 1821 (3050 f.). 31. Cf. St. Cyprian, Epist. 6, 8: Hartel III, 2, 733: "The bishop is in the Church and the Church in the bishop." 32. Cf. St. Cyprian, Epist. 55, 24: Hartel, 642, lin. 13: "One Church throughout the whole world divided...

..."primordial" (or "principal") church in the Christian world, each bishop shared in the apostolic authority: "The bishop is in the church, and the church in the bishop.'"* To fill a vacancy in the episcopal leadership of the diocese of Rome quickly became a very important...

...is, those who are beneath his power. Cyprian expressed this very clearly in his well-known formula: "The bishop is in the Church and the Church in the bishop, and if anyone is not with the bishop, he is not in the Church."19 3. Cyprian s thesis on the episcopate...

...they are the Church who are a people united to the priest, and the flock which adheres to its pastor. Whence you ought to know that the bishop is in the Church, and the Church in the bishop; and if any one be not with the bishop, that he is not in the Church, and that those flatter themselves...