| ### QUESTION 185 OF THINGS PERTAINING TO THE EPISCOPAL STATE |

| ### Index |

| #### Prologue #### ARTICLE 1. Whether it is lawful to desire the office of a bishop? #### ARTICLE 2. Whether it is lawful for a man to refuse absolutely an appointment to the episcopate? #### ARTICLE 3. Whether he that is appointed to the episcopate ought to be better than others? #### ARTICLE 4. Whether a bishop may lawfully forsake the episcopal cure, in order to enter religion? #### ARTICLE 5. Whether it is lawful for a bishop on account of bodily persecution to abandon the flock committed to his care? #### ARTICLE 6. Whether it is lawful for a bishop to have property of his own? #### ARTICLE 7. Whether bishops sin mortally if they distribute not to the poor the ecclesiastical goods which accrue to them? #### ARTICLE 8. Whether religious who are raised to the episcopate are bound to religious observances? |