Pope Benedict completes ‘ad limina’ visits with world’s bishops
09/01/2013Pope during bishops' an ad limina visit
It took more than seven years, but Pope Benedict XVI has hosted the formal visits of bishops from every country in the world and will begin the cycle all over again by meeting the heads of Italy’s 227 dioceses in 2013.
The Code of Canon Law calls for the heads of every diocese in the world to make their formal visit “ad limina apostolorum” (“to the threshold of the apostles”) every five years, but there are now almost 2,900 dioceses in the world and the 85-year-old pope also has other obligations as well… Read more »