Dr. Gore. Then, if duly nominated, elected, and confirmed,--

(4) He is _consecrated_ by the Episcopate. To safeguard the
Succession, three Bishops, at least, are required for the Consecration
of another Bishop, though one would secure a valid Consecration. No
Priest can be Consecrated Bishop under the age of thirty. Very
carefully does the Church safeguard admission to the Episcopate.

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_Homage._

After Consecration, the Bishop "does homage,"[4] i.e. he says that he,
like any other subject (ecclesiastic or layman), is the King's
"_homo_". What does he do homage for? He does homage, not for any
spiritual gift, but for "all the possessions, and profette spirituall
and temporall belongyng to the said ... Bishopricke".[5] The
_temporal_ possessions include such things as his house, revenue, etc.
But what is meant by doing homage for _spiritual_ possessions? Does
not this admit the claim that the King can, as Queen Elizabeth is
reported to have said, make or unmake a Bishop? No. Spiritual
_possessions_ do not here mean spiritual _powers_,--powers which can be
conferred by the Episcopate alone. {129} The "spiritual possessions"
for which a Bishop "does homage" refer to fees connected with spiritual
things, such as Episcopal Licences, Institutions to Benefices, Trials
in the Ecclesiastical Court, Visitations--fees, by the way, which, with
very rare exceptions, do not go into the Bishop's own pocket!

_Jurisdiction._

What is meant by Episcopal Jurisdiction? Jurisdiction is of two kinds,
_Habitual_ and _Actual_.

Habitual Jurisdiction is the Jurisdiction given to a Bishop to exercise
his office in the Church at large. It is conveyed with Consecration,
and is given to the Bishop as a Bishop of the Catholic Church. Thus an
Episcopal act, duly performed, would be valid, however irregular,
outside the Bishop's own Diocese, and in any part of the Church.

_Actual Jurisdiction_ is this universal Jurisdiction limited to a
particular area, called a Diocese. To this area, a Bishop's right to
exercise his Habitual Jurisdiction is, for purposes of order and
business, confined.

The next order in the Ministry is the Priesthood.

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(II) PRIESTS.

No one can read the Prayer-Book Office for the _Ordering of Priests_
without being struck by its contrast to the ordinary conception of
Priesthood by the average Englishman. The Bishop's words in the
Ordination Service: "Receive the Holy Gho