CCC 1560: As Christ's vicar, each bishop has the pastoral care of the particular Church entrusted to him, but at the same time he bears collegially with all his brothers in the episcopacy the solicitude for all the Churches: "Though each bishop is the lawful pastor only of the portion of the flock entrusted to his care, as a legitimate successor of the apostles he is, by divine institution and precept, responsible with the other bishops for the apostolic mission of the Church."
CCC 1594: The bishop receives the fullness of the sacrament of Holy Orders, which integrates him into the episcopal college and makes him the visible head of the particular Church entrusted to him. As successors of the apostles and members of the college, the bishops share in the apostolic responsibility and mission of the whole Church under the authority of the Pope, successor of St. Peter.
- Catechism: Office of Bishop – governs
- Catechism: Office of Bishop – sanctifies
- Catechism: Office of Bishop – responsibility for the Eucharist
- Catechism: Office of Bishop – consecrates the sacred chrism
- Catechism: Office of Bishop – as minister of Confirmation
- Catechism: Office of Bishop – as minister of reconciliation
- Catechism: Office of Bishop – authority to make particular judgments
- Catechism: Office of Bishop – as minister of Holy Orders
- Catechism: Office of Bishop – presides at the Eucharistic celebration
- Catechism: Office of Bishop – tasks in Christian initiation, in Baptism, Confirmation, and the Eucharist
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