Our Blessed Lord, Jesus Christ, celebrated the first Catholic Mass the night before He suffered and died. It is in The Bible in Mark 14, Matthew 26, Luke 22, and talked about in John 6, and 1 Corinthians 11.
Christ in the role of High Priest said the first Mass at the Last Supper.
The priest said Mass.
A bishop is first of all a priest and can say mass as any priest can.
No, it is not required nor suggested. That is one of the priest's normal duties.
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Neither. A priest celebrates a mass.
he held the first mass in Australia
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The number of celebrants, concelebrants or other assistants are immaterial. Mass is the name for all such events.
The lead Priest in a Mass is the Celebrant.
Catholic priests accompanied the earliest explorers and they said mass. So the first mass was said well before the US was the US.
Priests, Deacons, and Bishops celebrate the First Mass of Christmas, and an awful lot of Catholics.Any Catholic priest can say midnight mass. There are no particular rules about it. Anyone can go to it.