Hail Bright Cecilia on this her feast day. Thank God for musicians everywhere. Alleluia. Amen.
33 responses to “Companions?”
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No, Kimberley – he ISN’T a Primate. He is merely first among equals and has no powers as a primate or metropolitan.
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So what would you use as the collective noun for Archbishops, Presiding Bishops, Primi (Primuses??), etc?
I have always heard ‘primates’ as a simple short hand and have not assumed that it tells us anything about the form of governance in any particular province.
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Ah! But it does! +Idris is Primus (inter pares), but he’s no more a Primate than you or I. This is a delightful distinguishing feature of our Scottish Church. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were various suggestions and attempts to restore some kind of Metropolitan Bishop, but they came to nothing.
As for a collective noun, I don’t know. I prefer not to think about such meetings!
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