Chapter 322 The Troubles of the Church

Author: Orthodox Khan Ali Buge

Chapter 322 The Troubles of the Church

Gregory Prolunsky was Cao Jian's uncle. As a great nobleman of Liangzan, he was also one of the main figures involved in the Cao family's conscription plan that Guo Kang learned from Joanna before.

On the way, Guo Kang was about to simply tell Theodora about this person, but she said that she had known it a long time ago, which made Guo Kang a little embarrassed.

Finally, Guo Kang was taught a lesson by Theodora again.

"I have already said that you should pay more attention to the important things." She warned with her ears: "You are now in contact with more and more things, and the levels are getting higher and higher. Whether it is uncle or aunt, I always have them.

You can't protect your place. If you continue like this, you will sooner or later be deceived by these bad women with ulterior motives."

Apart from her inexplicable hostility, this actually made sense. Guo Kang had no choice but to nod and respond.

"How did Prolunsky find this? Why did he come to the door at this time?" He thought for a while, and then asked Wu Han next to him to understand the general situation.

"Today, Master Wang is going to receive the priests from there. He probably learned the news in advance, so he came with several priests in his territory." Wu Han replied: "Now Master Wang and several churches are here."

The senior executives are entertaining them and chatting with everyone briefly. We still have a lot of work in the future, so we can get along with each other now."

"Is it the matter of reorganizing the parish?" Guo Kang asked.

"Yes." Wu Han nodded: "We plan to incorporate all qualified folk priests, and the diocese must also adjust the planning. The situation there is too chaotic now, no matter how you can't manage it."

Guo Kang had heard of this for a long time, and he had made suggestions on it himself, so he didn't find it strange. Theodora obviously knew about it, so he nodded.

"What is Prolunsky doing?" Guo Kang continued to ask: "Who wants to install his own people, or do he want to lobby us for changing the plan?"

"I think he just wants to get close to him and then convince us to support him so that he can get involved in the recruitment matter." Wu Han expressed his thoughts.

Guo Kang nodded, thinking that this should be the case.

Diocese allocation is a very important thing. Because the division of diocese is actually the division of administrative regions. This is true for both the East and West churches.

The local institutions of the church generally have three levels, and the lowest is called pastoral or parish. As the name suggests, it is probably the area in which a church is responsible. A pastoral area may have more than one priest, and the leader of the church is in charge, called the priest of the church.

A diocese is formed on several adjacent pastoral areas. This word comes directly from the Roman jurisdiction, and the diocese leader is called the bishop.

Above the diocese, it is called the archbishop. This word is the Greek word "province", and its meaning and positioning are also very clear. The leader of the archbishop is called the archbishop or archbishop in the Catholic Church; in the Orthodox Church, it is generally called the lunar calendar.

Bishop. This is the highest level institution in the local area.

However, the current situation is that this system is maintained better in Western churches.

As Rome's rule in the Western Mediterranean gradually collapsed, local administrative institutions also collapsed. However, the church system led by the Roman bishops was preserved and continued to develop and improve.

Until now, the Catholic Church has already had a very advanced local management structure - it not only adheres to the centralized organizational method, but also has a "county and state parallel" structure and a subordinate "Tashi Church". For example, some are too far away.

A church organization with its own unique customs can achieve mutual recognition by both parties, granting them certain titles and giving them courtesy as long as they recognize the authority of the Roman bishop.

The church system, called "holy dynasty", began to take shape in the fifth century and gradually developed and matured. In places where there are strong tribal customs everywhere, this system is so advanced that it is not like something from the same era.

.In fact, for most of the time, it is indeed tribal customs and feudal systems in various places that are dragging the church down.

Moreover, without the support of strength, this system sometimes gets in the way. Authoritative kings often do not take the church seriously. Moreover, these actions not only affect the local structure of the church, but also affect the central part of the church.

I won’t talk about the various divisions and oppositions in history, even in later generations, there are many examples. In the era when Guo Kang lived, the Catholic Church had always had no choice but to take advantage of the Serris area, so he firmly stubbornly held the power of the bishop’s appointment.

The two sides have been unable to recognize each other.

In fact, the right to appoint a bishop is not a big deal. In Europe, if you have never fought against the pope, you are embarrassed to say that you are a big country. Any country with some power has never fought for this power. Even if the royal power declines, the church has a huge power.

In Poland, it is nothing to appoint a few bishops by the kings and nobles. As for the closer ones, they have even appointed apologizing apologies by themselves. Over the years, the church has long been numb.

The biggest problem may be that in order to demonstrate achievements, the church set up a large number of church provinces and dioceses in Serris. This led to the fact that as long as the two sides connect, dozens of archbishops and hundreds of bishops rushed into the Vatican.

In the church's view, these people are obviously controlled by the Seris government - is it really that different? But it is not surprising that the church thinks so, after all, this is really the case in Europe.

And so many people come in at once, they will directly destroy the political balance within the church, which will lead to no one daring to give in. This is also an inevitable problem for organizations like theirs that emphasize centralization.

As for the Orthodox Church in the East, it is another situation. Since the church was managed by the emperor for a long time, the priests and scholars in the west even directly called it the "emperor and pastoral system", believing that the church is actually a subordinate of the empire.

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Eastern Rome has always expressed opposition to this. The reasons they gave include that the emperor himself was not a priest, and that the Patriarch had the right to expel the emperor from his church, etc. But in fact, this kind of thing rarely happens, and the Patriarch's power is only

It can only work when other political forces overwhelm a certain emperor.

Roman theologians who could not explain this then used "harmony" as a substitute to describe the phenomenon of mutual support for religious and political power.

In Guo Kang's view, the system of Eastern Roman is actually more perfect, and it should continue to develop in the future and completely incorporate the church. But the biggest problem is that the strength of the Eastern Roman Empire itself is not good.

Those new countries that emerged within the Old Place of Eastern Rome and within the cultural influence re-stage the situation around Serris: politically confronting Rome, then culturally and religiously must be with the Orthodox Church, or to be precise, with the Condors.

The Patriarch of Tantinburg was confronted. Therefore, in order to maintain independence, as long as countries have the strength to maintain independence, they will immediately find ways to build their own churches and get rid of the influence of the Patriarch of Junbao.

There is not much difference between them. In Western Europe, they may not be considered a church organization with different rituals, and they are not even considered a "religious chieftain". However, if they do not do so, they will never be able to get rid of their dependence.

Sooner or later, it will be absorbed back. Therefore, even if it is created, you have to make some difference.

In short, everyone has their own troubles. This is also the root cause of the many problems in the church at present.

The regional division of the Catholic Church is not necessarily consistent with the administrative divisions of various countries. The church is often lagging behind. Outer Mongolia has been divided for decades, and the church still calls it the other side Kulun.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the diocese was restored. The first bishop was not a local, but a Filipino priest appointed by the church, named Bishop Huang Xudong.
Chapter completed!