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

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We must now consider things pertaining to the episcopal state. Under this head there are eight points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether it is lawful to desire the office of a bishop? #### (2) Whether it is lawful to refuse the office of bishop definitively? #### (3) Whether the better man should be chosen for the episcopal office? #### (4) Whether a bishop may pass over to the religious state? #### (5) Whether he may lawfully abandon his subjects in a bodily manner? #### (6) Whether he can have anything of his own? #### (7) Whether he sins mortally by not distributing ecclesiastical goods to the poor? #### (8) Whether religious who are appointed to the episcopal office are bound to religious observances? ####  |