What is the role of the priest or bishop as a physician?

In one of his homilies on the Psalms, Origen calls the bishops “physicians” who are skilled in healing wounds.¹⁶⁰⁷ He also comments on the bishops’ authority by saying that Christ was the great physician who heals from all sicknesses and diseases. Now, His apostles Peter and Paul, like the prophets, are also physicians. Likewise, those who are entrusted with the Church follow in their footsteps, for they were granted the gift of healing. Especially those servants in the Church, whom God established as physicians of souls , for He does not wish the death of a sinner, but rather that he returns and repents.¹⁶⁰⁸