Eklezjologia episkopatu w odnowionej liturgii

Ecclesiology of the episcopate in renewed liturgy

The article shows some elements of ecclesiology of the episcopate, which appear in liturgic books renewed after the second Vatican Council. The bishop is the spouse of Church, because since the moment of bishop ordination he represents Christ the Shepherd and the Spouse of Church on the highest level. Although the bishop does his duties connected with sanctification and worship in the whole diocese, it is the cathedra church which ist somehow mother church and the centre of particular church and it is the proper place where it develops its function of the minister of the grace of the high priesthood for its sheepfold, especialy when he leads the liturgy on special celebratory days, blesses the oil of chrism and administrates the sacred ordinations.

The figure od the bishop who aministrates liturgy in cathedral church expresses its whole imagery through its presence in icons of liturgic space to which belong bishop’s cathedra, presbyterium, ambo or amboes,  baptismal bowl and sacristy.