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Affonso Henriques wasted no words. "I have summoned you," he announced, "to command that you proceed to the election of a bishop." A rustle stirred through the priestly throng. The canons looked askance at the prince and at one another. Then one of them spoke. "Habemus episcopum," he said gravely, and several instantly made chorus: "We have a bishop." The eyes of the young sovereign kindled.

They stood before him, silent and impassive, in their priestly dignity, and in their assurance that the law was on their side. "Well?" the boy growled at them. "Habemus episcopum," droned a voice again. "Amen," boomed in chorus through the cloisters.

As an example of this extraordinary delegated jurisdiction, I will refer to a document in the Archivio of the Canons of Arezzo of the year 833, relating to the judgment of a dispute between "Petrum Episcopum Arretinum et Vigilium Abatem Monasterii Sancti Antemi," situated in the territory of Chiusi, over a privilege ceded to that monastery by Lewis the Pious in 813.

Wolsey held three bishoprics and one archbishopric, besides the abbey of St. Albans. Thus when Wolsey was presented, in 1514, to the See of Lincoln, Leo X. writes to his beloved son Thomas Wolsey how that in his great care for the interests of the Church, "Nos hodie Ecclesiæ Lincolniensi, te in episcopum et pastorem præficere intendimus." See the Acts in Rymer, Vol. VI. part I, pp. 55-57.

"Bron, and the monk Olcan," said Patrick, "who came towards me along Traig-Eothaili, and my foster-son, Mac-Erca, with them; a wave of the sea made a great dash, and tried to carry off the youth." This was a prophecy. Post hoc autem possuerunt episcopum Cairellum juxta sanctam Ecclesiam in Tamhnagh, quem ordinaverunt Episcopum Patricii, viz., Bronus et Biteus.

Then, answered my father, 'Tis much at your service, Dr. Slop's hands. Dr. Slop wrapt his thumb up in the corner of his handkerchief, and with a wry face, though without any suspicion, read aloud, as follows my uncle Toby whistling Lillabullero as loud as he could all the time. Textus de Ecclesia Roffensi, per Ernulfum Episcopum. Excommunicatio.

Lawrence, did not fear the responsibility of so lofty a task? The assumption would be quite unjustified. Rather let us think of him as meditating on this text of St. Paul: "Oportet episcopum irreprehensibilem esse," the bishop must be irreproachable in his house, his relations, his speech and even his silence.