Talk:Quinquennial visit ad limina

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ad limina Can someone give a strict latin diff of this term....ad limina (71.201.110.239 (talk) 18:46, 6 February 2008 (UTC))[reply]

ad means "at", "to", or "for" in latin, and limina is the plural of limen, which means "threshold", so ad limina means "to the thresholds", and the entire phrase means "visit every five years to the thresholds". The thresholds in question are to the tombs of Sts. Peter and Paul in Rome. I believe that's pretty well explained in the article. Gentgeen (talk) 19:36, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Actual practice[edit]

How do these visits work in practice? Does each bishop have an individual audience and conversation with the pope, are several bishops (perhaps from neighbouring dioceses) seen together, or are the main meetings with other Vatican officials and then the pope just spends at least some time in a room with a large number of bishops, like a kind of reception event? The hierarchy of the Catholic Church article says there are around 5000 bishops and 3000 dioceses. For the visits to happen every five years the pope would need to meet two bishops per day if holding these meetings six days a week: 3000/(5x365x6/7)=1.9. Beorhtwulf (talk) 17:02, 29 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]