All 44 diocesan bishops and 10 suffragans were asked to attend the meeting to discuss October's Windsor Report, a document produced to examine the crisis. |
The bishop of the provincial capital, the metropolitan, enjoyed certain rights over other bishops in the province, later called suffragans. |
Some of these archdioceses are suffragans of a metropolitan archdiocese. |
But the primate and five of his suffragans were still inflexible. |
An archbishop may not only excommunicate and interdict his suffragans, but his vicar general may do the same. |