The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-07-09
BISHOPS CATHEDRAL.
Bishop Of Salt Lake

We present on our first page, two cuts of the
new cathedral now in course Of erection. The tow
ers, yet TO be built, viii be another 100 feet in
height. fifty of which will be solid masonry. The
new impetus given by members Of the congregation
TO hasten the completion of the building and have
it ready for services soon as possible has been
successful. The new building, now attracting SO
much attention, viii be, when completed one of the
ornaments of Salt Lake and an object-Iesson of
Catholic zeal and devotion to all visitors who NAV
spend day in our city The Bishops church. in all
doceses IS called the cathedral for there is erected
his throne cathedra, which in Greek means chair.
From this chair the Bishop of a diocese judges and
rules that part of his flock assigned to him bv the
visible head of the church. The seat of the Bishop
Of Rome is designated as the Holy See because the
Pope, seated in the chair of Peter rules all other
churches Of the world while archbishops and bish-
ops whose jurisdiction comes from the head of
the church, rule the spiritual states assigned to
them by the Pope, and subject to him The apos-
ties, who were the first bishops, were appointed
and commissioned by Christ, who said to them: Il
will give to you to sit twelve thrones Judging the
twelve tribes of Israeli
In each diocese the bishop is the chief teacher
his person the truths of the Gospel together with
the authority Of the whole church. Being the spir-
itual father of the clergy and laity he rules both
When new diocese is created, it is the image Of
the universal church Peter, when appointed to
rule and govern the church. chose Rome as his do
cese, so does bishop in taking possession of new
diocese choose some church for his cathedral Tn
said church he erects his spiritual throne and from
this he judges that tribe of Israel that is entrusted
to his charge. When church is used Temporarily
by bishop for his cathedral it is termed the nro
cathedral This has been the case in the diocese of
Salt Lake
As the relations of the Pope, Bishop of Rome. to
the Roman people differ from his relations to all
other dioceses, so do those of each bishop to the
people of the cathedral parish differ from his re-
latlons to all otherparishes in his diocese. The
Pope is the tituar bishop Of Rome, but not of any
other diocese in the Catholic world. so in dioceses
bishop is not pastor Of parishes outside the ca
thedral parish, Of which he may assume the pastor
ship or not But the Pope as Vicar of Christ has
direct and immediate jurisdiction over all the faith
tul TO whom they were entrusted by Christ. "Feed
my lambs and feed my sheep" So too has the bish
op supervision all parishes in his diocese He
has the authority to rule regulate and enact stat
utes for pastors and people, and when or where in
ms diocese pastors may be delinquent in their du-
ties to attend to the spiritual wants of the people
Whatever changes may take place in the par
ishes, there can be no change in the relations of
the bishop with his cathedral He and his success
sors will ever remain bishop of that see as the sue
cessors Of Peter will ever be the bishops of Rome
Herein Is reflected in each diocese the image of the
universal church.
To the present cathedral, when completed. Bfss-
OF Seaman and his successors for all time will ".