ad liminaadv.adj.

1864 P. F. Moran Hist. Catholic Archbishops Dublin, since Reformation xviii. 404 A few years previous (in 1625), faculty had been granted to the Irish bishops to make the visit ad limina, by means of a procurator.

1897 Amer. Eccl. Rev. Apr. 356 He is not obliged to make his own visit ad limina within that decade nor before the expiration of the next.

1918 Catholic Hist. Rev. 4 364 On April 13, 1912 he embarked for New York to join the other pilgrims and travel to Rome to make the visit ad limina.

1989 R. Torzecki in P. R. Magosci Morality & Reality iv. 52 The Polish government finally permitted Sheptyts'kyi to leave L'viv on an overdue visit ad limina.

2004 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) (Nexis) 22 Oct. b5 He said he does not expect to make a third visit ad limina because he will be 77 at the time of the next five-year event.

1875 Times 15 Mar. 5/4 The Pope will give him the hat and ring when he comes to Rome to pay the ad limina visit.

1916 Archivium Hibernicum 5 74 A verbal report was sufficient in the case of bishops making the Ad Limina visit in person.

1988 Renaissance Stud. 2 722 Visitors to the Roman Curia in the late fifteenth century, whether..bishops making their ad limina visits, or royal orators coming to place their business before the pope himself, could hardly fail to be apprehensive as they approached the Eternal City.

1994 F. J. Butler Amer. Catholic Identity xix. 215 His [sc. the Holy Father's] first ad limina address to the United States Bishops in 1988.

2010 Tablet 27 Mar. 40/1 The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith told the bishops during their ad limina visit earlier this year that the Church's child safeguarding procedures were exemplary.