id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt _005195855 University of Pennsylvania. Department of History. Translations and reprints from the original sources of European history. 1897 .txt text/plain 11306 615 69 But if certain [Novatian^ clerics seek admission to the catholic church when it already has a bishop or presbyter of its own appointment, it is plain that the bishop of the church shall retain the dignity of “bishop,” while he who is styled “bishop” by the so-called “Pure,” shall have the rank of presbyter : this, at least, unless the bishop be pleased to grant him a share in the honorary title of “bishop;” if he is not so minded, he should certainly find a place for him as rural bishop or presbyter, that he may seem to retain fully his clerical status. Bishops to be ap- pointed according to rule. cache/_005195855.txt txt/_005195855.txt