Iudaes 1087 Share Posted December 14, 2020 (edited) PRIMA MINOR BULLA, DE GODVINUSTHE FIRST MINOR BULL OF GODVINUS 11th of Harren’s Folly, 1798 From the desk of His Eminence Manfried, Cardinal St. Julia, Archbishop of Godvinus, Archbishop Metropolitan of Providence, Prelate for the Canonist Priesthood, and Legate to the Holy Orenian Empire. TABLE OF CONTENTS┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ SECTION I - Greetings and Benediction SECTION II - Organization of Providence SECTION III - Organization of Dobrov SECTION IV - Organization of Esbec SECTION V - Plans for Sutica SECTION VI - The Recruitment Drive SECTION VII - The Placement of the Wigbrechtians SECTION VIII - Message of Goodwill and Conclusion ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛ I Oh Lord, God on high. We, Your humble servants vow to remain eternally loyal to You, eternally devout in our worship and eternally steadfast in our service. We, Your faithful, accepted into the loving bosom of Your light through Your mercy, shall be molded by Your scripture, the Holy Scrolls, forever to hear it as the one truth, the only truth, the eternal and unchanging truth. We shall serve as the pillars of this great path we tread, readied by the wombs of our mothers, carried into this terra by the blessings You have imparted upon those who follow in the footsteps of Saint Julia, Lord Godani. We, the pious, the devout, the faithful shall mold this world in the image of virtue, just as we are molded by the Scrolls You had imparted upon the Exalted, ever to be cherished and adhered to as the servants of You, Our Lord. We make this solemn vow in communion with the blessed Church of Canon. May we be made worthy of the Seven Skies through the scripture and holy teachings gifted to us by You, God. In Nomine Patris, Amen! Greetings and Benediction, brothers and sisters. May the utmost of God’s blessings eternally reach you and may the Saints intercede on the behalf of you and your’s as we walk the path of virtue and righteousness in the name of our Lord, the Almighty and Eternal, God. II It is with great pride that we of the Archdiocese of Godvinus hold the capital of the Holy Orenian Empire as the episcopal seat of our Archbishopric. With this said, the administration of the Archdiocese will be operated within the walls of Providence and such meetings in regards to the workings of the Archdiocese thereof will be held within the Basilica of the Ascent of Exalted Godfrey. Too shall the majority of the recruitment for the Archdiocese be performed here, such Acolytes of the Church then assigned to Providence or the various other settlements which find themselves under our purview. PROVIDENCE ROSTER: His Eminence, Manfried Cardinal St. Julia His Grace, Coadjutor Bishop Bram Father Pelagius III With the expansion of the once Metropolitanate of Helena into the Archdiocese of Godvinus, it is the necessary duty of our office as endowed unto us by the Apostolic Seal of His Holiness to organize the newly added settlements under our care. Therefore, with our seal placed upon this document, we hereby do affirm Father Dima as a Father of Dobrov and currently the sole Priest there due to his relations to the ruling family and therefore his familiarity with the lands under their control. He is charged with administering mass and the Sacraments in Dobrov and caring for his flock with the tender care of a father. He is too charged to reach out to prospective candidates for the Priesthood and encourage them to travel to Providence for further recruitment and training or train them in Dobrov itself if his schedule permits. He shall be where the seed of the church within Dobrov sprouts from and we congratulate him on his ordination and appointment. DOBROV ROSTER: Father Dima IV The organization of the province of Esbec is currently underway and we stress the further importance for the recruitment of new Acolytes in the Archdiocese so as to fill our provinces with Priests capable of administering to our most beloved flock. Once roads are constructed for safe travel between the seat of the Archdiocese and Esbec, a trip to the settlement of Esbec by I, the Archbishop, will be made so as to acquaint myself with the good people of the province and perform any necessary Sacraments at that time. We hope that soon enough, our Archdiocese’s lands may be filled with the men of the cloth needed to fully function in our mission to spread the word of God throughout our episcopal territories. V With the Vice Chancellor of God’s Church reaffirmed as Bishop of Sutica by His Holiness, it is our goal in the coming years to begin the work of the Church within the walls of Sutica once again. Therefore, it is our hope that in the coming weeks and months, we may meet with those in government and administration of the Kingdom so as to strengthen the episcopal seat of His Eminence, Amadeus Cardinal Sutica and once again see the word of God preached within Sutican borders. In this effort, the Archbishopric of Godvinus will be working closely with the Bishopric of Sutica to see the preferred conclusion to this matter which shall be discussed in detail between relevant parties in time. SUTICAN ROSTER: His Eminence, Amadeus Cardinal Sutica VI ((Ascension to the Cloth Page)) It is in these first few years of our time in Almaris that the Archdiocese prepares it’s administration for a revitalization of our efforts in service to God. Yet, while it is through the hands of one that much can be achieved, it is only through the hands of the many that God’s vision can be fulfilled. It is through the cooperation of the nations that we defeated the Inferi. Through the cooperation of our peoples that we endured the travels from Arcas to Almaris and it is through the efforts of all the virtuous that Iblees’s defeat will be brought about as foretold in the Scroll of Auspice. So too then is it through the efforts of masses of Priests that service to God through the Church can be fulfilled. That His word can be safeguarded and that the Sacraments may be administered and the flocks of Almaris guided by their shepherds. With that said, it is the Archdiocese of Godvinus that is in need of budding Priests. Of Acolytes who wish to devote themselves to this life of humble servitude to the Lord Almighty and to the station of most import, being a shepherd over mankind. It is through the Priest that a settlement can be guided but it is through him and his fellow brothers of cloth that the Church can function and the wheels of the many dioceses can turn. Therefore, we of the administration of this Archdiocese ask those who wish to join us in this blessed mission to approach one of us or correspond with us through letter. It is through the hands of the many that we may endure and it is through the hands of the many that we may serve. VII It is natural with our Coadjutor Bishop being the Abbot of the Wigbrechtians that the Metropolitanate of Providence would be meant to be a great headquarters for their esteemed monastic order. Therefore, it is our pleasure to assist the Wigbrechtian Order in their efforts to find a suitable home for their members stationed in the city of Providence and too look forward to working closely with their members in order to bring about the great charitable efforts which the order has grown famed for. It is our hope that in their devotion to the monastic way of life and the values of humility and altruism that the poor shall be lifted up from their states of poverty and the people of Providence, wealthy or poor will be lifted up in spiritual virtue. We look forward to working alongside you. VIII This is our Archdiocese’s first Bull here in Almaris and I pray that it shall mark a beginning of great progress and acts of great godliness. That it shall spark a sense of virtue and a movement forward. It has been two years since our move here from Arcas to this new continent of His Creation and even after the span of two years, we are still adapting. It is still necessary to get used to this new way of things and it is the Mother Church, filled to the brim with the spiritual Fathers of our Lord’s children that shall help us adapt through the goodness of God. It is in God that all things move and live and have their being and so, it is through God that we shall endure; just as the first of His Creation endured during the assault of Iblees or the virtuous dead in ages to come during the Denier’s final breaths. It is through God that we shall move on and I hope that we may deliver the virtue of God; His love and His care to His most good and godly children. May He bless you all with health, wisdom, and strength and may we all move forwards with the spirit of endurance through the Church. SIGNED WITH THE LOVE OF A FATHER, YOUR SERVANT Fr. Manfried ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A reminder would be sent alongside the Bull that this is not the equivalent of a Golden Bull issued by the High Pontiff and is instead a Bull sent by the head of a diocese to report on the progress and occurrences within the diocese thereof. Edited March 9, 2021 by GoldWolf 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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