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Robert Bellarmine, SJ, Doctor of the Church

“ Sharing in solicitude for all the Churches, bishops exercise this episcopal office of theirs, received through episcopal consecration, in communion with and under the authority of the Supreme Pontiff. All are united in a college or body with respect to teaching the universal Church of God and governing her as shepherds. ”

— Robert Bellarmine Decree on the Bishops' Pastoral Office