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French: votre amplitude.

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For many bishops, the honorific suggested for John Adams is appropriate: "Your rotundity".

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Back about 45 years ago, a friend who was teaching at a certain university in the American south had a student named "Rotunda" something-or-other. Her mother happened to hear the word on some broadcast from DC and liked it.

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Originally Posted by Fr Serge Keleher
I should think one would also want to know the correct complimentary close when addressing a hierarch. There are two:

a) for use in writing to one's own hierarch: "obediently yours in Christ",

b) for use in writing to any other hierarch: "devotedly yours in Christ."

And for extra credit: which to use for which when one is canonically of one church, but a parishioner of (and changing write to) another, and must write *both* bishops (with cc's of each letter to the other)?

not that I have to do this in the next couple of days smile

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Here's a riddle: what is the correct form of address to an anti-Pope?

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Originally Posted by Fr Serge Keleher
I should think one would also want to know the correct complimentary close when addressing a hierarch. There are two:

a) for use in writing to one's own hierarch: "obediently yours in Christ",

b) for use in writing to any other hierarch: "devotedly yours in Christ."

hope this is of some help.

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I wonder if anyone (priest or otherwise) has ever closed with "rebelliously yours"?!? hehehe.... wink

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Fr.Serge,Which anti-pope did you have in mind? Pius XIII perhaps?

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Actually I was thinking of the breach between the rival Popes in Avignon and Rome.

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Originally Posted by Fr Serge Keleher
Here's a riddle: what is the correct form of address to an anti-Pope?

An anti-address, of course. Which, I suppose, would mean to completely ignore him.

Hmm, or to read the missive from back to front . . . or maybe to invert its meaning . . .

hawk, getting confused, or perhaps anti-coherent . . .

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Nope! But keep trying!

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