VIII, caput 14).--"Episcopos, licet papae divino jure subditos, ejusdem esse ordinis, ejusdem caracteris, sive, ut loquitur Hieronymus, ejusdem meriti, ejusdem, sacerdotii, collegasque et coepiscopos appelari constat, scitumque illud Bernardi ad Eugenium papam: Non es dominus episcoporum, sed unus ex illis."] [Footnote 5205: Comte Boulay (de la Meurthe), "les Negociations du Concordat," p.

35 .-- There were 50 vacancies in 135 dioceses, owing to the death of their incumbents.] [Footnote 5206: Bercastel and Henrion, XIII., 43.

(Observations of Abbe Emery on the Concordat.) "None of the past Popes, not even those who have extended their authority the farthest, have been able to carry such heavy, authoritative blows out, as those struck at this time by Pius VII."] [Footnote 5207: Praelectiones juris canonici habitae in seminario Sancti Sulpitii, 1867 (Par l'abbe Icard), I., 138.

"Sancti canones passim memorant distinctionem duplicis potestatis qua utitur sanctus pontifex: unam appelant ordinariam, aliam absolutam, vel plenitudinem potestatis...

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