Editing Collegiality (section)

==In the Catholic Church==
{{Main|Collegiality in the Catholic Church}}

In the Catholic Church, '''collegiality''' refers primarily to "the Pope governing the Church in collaboration with the bishops of the local Churches, respecting their proper autonomy."<ref name = twokeys/> This had been the practice of the early Church<ref>{{Citation | last = Duffy | first = Eamon | author-link = Eamon Duffy | publication-date = 2014 | title = Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes | edition = fourth (Kindle) | publisher = Yale University Press | publication-place = New Haven | at = [https://archive.org/details/00book1593273669/page/ locations 880-882] | isbn = 978-0-300-11597-0 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/00book1593273669/page/ }}</ref> and was revitalized by the [[Second Vatican Council]]. One of the major changes during the Second Vatican Council was the council's encouragement of [[episcopal conference|bishops' conferences]]<ref>{{Citation|author=Second Vatican Council |author-link=Second Vatican Council |date=28 October 1965 |title=Decree Concerning the Pastoral Office of Bishops; Christus Dominus |at=§36-38 |url=https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decree_19651028_christus-dominus_en.html |access-date=24 June 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130802084853/https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decree_19651028_christus-dominus_en.html |archive-date=2 August 2013 }}</ref> and the Pope's establishment of the Synod of Bishops.<ref>{{Citation | last = O'Malley | first = John W., S. J. | publication-date = 2010 | year = 2008 | title = What Happened at Vatican II | edition = Kindle | publisher = Harvard University Press | publication-place = Cambridge | at = [https://archive.org/details/whathappenedatva00omal/page/ locations 5038-5041] | isbn = 978-0-674-03169-2 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/whathappenedatva00omal/page/ }}</ref>  From the beginning of his papacy, [[Pope Francis]], who had twice been elected head of the [[Argentine Episcopal Conference|Argentine Bishops' Conference]], has advocated increasing the role of collegiality and [[synodality]] in the development of Church teachings.<ref name = twokeys>{{Citation | publication-date = 28 August 2013 | title = Synodality, collegiality: two keys to the coming Francis reform | periodical = Catholic Voices Comment | publisher = Catholic Voices | publication-place = London | url = http://cvcomment.org/2013/08/28/synodality-collegiality-two-keys-to-the-coming-francis-reform/ | access-date = 21 June 2015 | archive-date = 21 June 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150621232832/http://cvcomment.org/2013/08/28/synodality-collegiality-two-keys-to-the-coming-francis-reform/ | url-status = dead }}</ref>