What is an auxiliary bishop?
An auxiliary bishop is assigned to a diocese or archdiocese when the diocesan bishop can’t perform the duties necessary or when the diocese is big enough that it requires more than one person to run it. All bishops, even auxiliary bishops, have to be the bishop of a place, so auxillary bishops get what is known as a titular see that is, he becomes bishop of a diocese that now exists only in title. Bishop-elect Flores has been assigned the Titular See of Cozyla, a suppressed diocese in an area of the Balkans once controlled by Bulgaria.”The Hispanic people rejoice as they have one of their own,” Bishop Quinn adds. Pray, listen to others and be present to the people he’s ministering to is the advice Auxiliary Bishop Francis Reiss offers to Bishop Flores. “That’s something for him to remember every morning and day he has to remind himself that he’s called to be a successor to the apostles,” Bishop Reiss says. “And in a way, we have to remind ourselves that we are the Body of Christ and th
