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What I want to see are holy bishops who take seriously the spiritual condition of both the victims and the accused.
Suddenly, bishops called upon their pacifist communities to take up swords and defend the Empire.
The spiritual peerage consists of the archbishops and diocesan bishops of the Church of England.
A player starts off with a king, a queen, eight pawns, and two each of bishops, knights and rooks.
Which brings us again to the bishops, who more than anyone should try to govern in accord with divine justice and mercy.
In addition, the land which the monasteries owned in the name of the Church, led bishops and abbots to have distinct political power as well.
Instead the Mitchell brothers are generally busy making crooks for bishops and hikers.
The Orthodox Church is headed by a patriarch, presiding over the Holy Synod, with a hierarchy of regional archbishops, bishops, and priests.
Pictures and names of seven departed bishops of Rochester can be seen on the inside of the ambry door.
Why don't bishops undergo periodic review by their clergy, and clergy by the people of the parish?
It is up to the bishops to make the decision about laicizing a priest, that is to say kicking him out of the priesthood.
But this time some 69 cardinals and 1,228 bishops and archbishops had supported the campaign for beatification.
The council was attended by 500 bishops, 70 abbots and over 1,000 other clergy.
Nigeria probably had the highest density of prophets, apostles, bishops, mullahs, alhajis and sheiks in the whole world.
Ever since the Concordat of 1516 between Francis I and Pope Leo X the king had appointed all bishops and the abbots of greater monasteries.
Most of the early medieval saints were bishops, abbots, and abbesses with an impeccable social pedigree.
Abbots, abbesses and bishops were buried with their croziers, the pastoral staffs symbolic of their office.
Cardinals, archbishops, bishops, clergy and civilian dignitaries, including some from abroad, will participate in the function.
With deference to tradition, the cardinals went first, archbishops and bishops followed and the priests came last.
Phoenix and New Hampshire prosecutors have, at least, overcome their leeriness at even charging bishops or cardinals.
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The archbishops and bishops of the Church were likewise to contribute soldiers, or an equivalent amount in money.
They were pawns in the Vatican's plan to reconquer Scotland and reinstate the regime of the cardinals, the bishops and the priests.
That continuity is rooted in apostolic succession, by which the whole mystery of Christ is handed on through the bishops.
Women are now routinely ordained in many Anglican churches and serve as bishops as well in some.
However, I also think that a careful reading of the document shows the bishops were not saying this.
Specifically, the Board urges a revival of the oversight role of metropolitans, i.e., archbishops overseeing bishops in their province.
In the United States Armenian priests are elected by laymen and ordained by bishops, but confirmed by the Patriarch, who resides in Armenia.
In the summer of 1306, bishops and barons and knights from all around England left their country manors and villages and journeyed to London.
The most sophisticated organization was the church and sensible rulers devoted care to choice of archbishops and bishops.
The philosopher, whose materialist view of religion appalled the bishops, found his published works rigorously suppressed by officialdom.
My appeal to all pastors, bishops, reverends and other church leaders, is that they should not sell their birthright to any organisation for the sake of money.
Drag queens dressed like Gaga herself and groups in bishops cloaks kissed and hugged on the cobbled streets.
He went back with the roses wrapped in a serape, and when he placed it before the bishops, the roses were there and the image of the Guadalupana was on his serape.
The third session of the council ended that Saturday, and a state of demoralization hung over the bishops until they reconvened, ten months later.
What this means is that the idea of popes as descendants of St. Peter is about controlling bishops, not churchgoers.
So before I go spouting off about bishops full of sound and fury, signifying nothing, I think I should give them time and stop being so all-fired distrustful.
This they affirmed to be the very body of Christ, the locus of holiness, the society of saints, guaranteed by the unquestioned apostolic succession of their bishops.
In specifying severe judgment, as is widely recommended, are the bishops engaged in a form of retribution for having erred in the past by latitudinarian excess?
Seats went to archbishops and bishops of the province's twenty-three dioceses, owners of twenty-three baronies, and sixty-eight deputies of the Third Estate.
The responses received also included questionnaires filled in by 100 licensed lay workers, 56 archdeacons, 18 bishops, 13 deans or provosts and 61 residentiary canons.
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Well you need to rewind the tape back a couple of years to when the ecology became part of the agenda for the bishops committee that focused on social justice.
At the top of the clerical pyramid were 136 bishops and archbishops, whose income in the most important ecclesiastical sees could exceed 100,000 livres.
He was painting the Sistine Chapel, and he was angry at one of the bishops or cardinals, so he painted him in with donkey ears.
He has to contend with much more conservative bishops, archbishops, and cardinals appointed by his two immediate predecessors.
The council concluded with the emperor Constantine insisting that the bishops come to an agreement over the wording of the creed.
The central issue is de facto immunity traditionally given to bishops and cardinals.
Speaking of finding a silver lining, it always seems like chaplains, reverends, ministers, bishops, they always try to find the positive in any type of disaster.
It is unknown how long there may be such learned bishops as, thanks to God, are nearly everywhere.
Prior to their conquest by England, most churches have records of bishops and priest but not an established parish system.
Bede relates that the bishops particularly consulted a hermit on how to respond.
Patrick set up diocesan structures with a hierarchy of bishops, priests, and deacons.
The Latin Church is governed by the pope and diocesan bishops directly appointed by him.
As of 2008 The bishops in a particular country are members of a national or regional episcopal conference.
The church teaches that all duly consecrated bishops have a lineal succession from the apostles of Christ, known as apostolic succession.
All clergy, whether deacons, priests or bishops, may preach, teach, baptise, witness marriages and conduct funeral liturgies.
Only bishops can administer the sacrament of Holy Orders, which ordains someone into the clergy.
Britain sent three bishops to the Synod of Arles in 314, and a Gaulish bishop went to the island in 396 to help settle disciplinary matters.
Besides hospitality, the Frankish bishops and kings provided interpreters and were asked to allow some Frankish priests to accompany the mission.
Gregory's plan was that there would be two metropolitan sees, one at York and one at London, with twelve suffragan bishops under each archbishop.
He showed these to the new Kentish king, who promptly was converted and recalled the exiled bishops.
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Partly because bishops refused to give livings to Tractarian priests, many of them began working in slums.
In the Middle Ages there was considerable variation in the methods of nomination of the Archbishop of Canterbury and other bishops.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has a ceremonial provincial curia, or court, consisting of some of the senior bishops of his province.
The right to use a title as a legal signature is only permitted to bishops, Peers of the Realm and peers by courtesy.
By April 2012 the ordinariate numbered about 1200, including five bishops and 60 priests.
While in exile, he helped guide the Greek bishops of southern Italy to adopt Roman rites at the Council of Bari.
The next day, William ordered the bishops not to treat Anselm as their primate or as Canterbury's archbishop, as he openly adhered to Urban.
The bishops sided with the king, the Bishop of Durham presenting his case and even advising William to depose and exile Anselm.
Unlike many other Methodist churches, the British church does not have bishops.
As a consequence, the 2007 conference decided not to move towards having bishops at present.
Without bishops, the Methodist Church does not subscribe to the idea of an historical episcopate.
Victricius had just returned from settling an unnamed dispute among the bishops of Britain.
Wilfrid chose to be consecrated in Gaul because of the lack of what he considered to be validly consecrated bishops in England at that time.
The custom of bishops possessing seals may from this date be assumed to have been pretty general.
Wilfrid was one of the first bishops to bring relics of saints back from Rome.
This gave the King his opportunity and an edict forbidding such appeals was immediately issued, and the three bishops were arrested.
His election was confirmed on 23 May 1162 by a royal council of bishops and noblemen.
It was papal policy for bishops to move to more urban seats, and John of Tours translated his own from Wells to Bath.
Later bishops returned the episcopal seat to Wells while retaining the name Bath in the title, Bishop of Bath and Wells.
During the Medieval period there were no more than 17 bishops, far fewer than the numbers in France and Italy.
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In 2015 Sarah Mullally and Rachel Treweek became the first women to be ordained as bishops in the cathedral.
Palaces in Romania, as elsewhere in Europe, were originally built for royalty, nobles and bishops.
Eadfrith and Ethelwald were both bishops at the monastery of Lindisfarne where the manuscript was produced.
And therefore the bishops, belike, taking his works but for jests and toys, in condemning other books, yet permitted his books to be read.
It drew on ceremonies used by the kings of the Franks and those used in the ordination of bishops.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, assisted by other bishops, then presents the Sword of State to the sovereign.
Medieval Norwegian sagas and historical works mention Greenland's economy as well as the bishops of Gardar and the collection of tithes.
With the support of the Episcopalians, James reintroduced bishops into the Church of Scotland against the wishes of the presbyterian party.
This remained mostly unchanged after the Norman invasion, despite protests from bishops and archbishops.
The others were a letter from the King of Scots, Robert I, and a letter from four Scottish bishops which all presumably made similar points.
The appointment of bishops and archbishops of the Church falls within the royal prerogative.
Today, the Nigerian Methodist Church has a prelate, eight archbishops and 44 bishops.
Royal supremacy was exercised through the extant legal structures of the church, whose leaders were bishops.
These ministers were at first confined to the three orders of bishops, priests, and deacons.
A brace of brethren, both bishops, both eminent for learning and religion, now appeared in the church.
A conspiracy of bishops could prostrate and fob off the right of the people.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England, has a place of honour among the bishops of the Anglican churches.
At about the same time, in the colonies which remained linked to the crown, the Church of England began to appoint colonial bishops.
After the Glorious Revolution, Presbyterianism was restored and the bishops, who had generally supported James VII, abolished.
The Early Middle Ages are characterized by the urban control of bishops and the territorial control exercised by dukes and counts.
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No information is presented on who these two bishops were or where they came from.
On the assumption that the early bishoprics mimicked the imperial hierarchy, scholars use the list of bishops for the 314 Council of Arles.
On the basis of the Verona List, the priest and deacon who accompanied the bishops in some manuscripts are ascribed to the fourth province.
The African bishops could not come to terms and the Donatists asked Constantine to act as a judge in the dispute.
He summoned the bishops, and told them of his hope to be baptized in the River Jordan, where Christ was written to have been baptized.
Late in the year Alaric sent bishops to express his readiness to leave Italia if Honorius would only grant his people a supply of grain.
Britain sent three bishops to the Council of Arles in 314, and a Gaulish bishop went to the island in 396 to help settle disciplinary matters.
Besides hospitality, the Frankish bishops and kings provided interpreters and Frankish priests to accompany the mission.
Gregory's plan was that there would be two metropolitans, one at York and one at London, with 12 suffragan bishops under each archbishop.
When Augustine failed to rise from his seat on the entrance of the British bishops, they refused to recognise him as their archbishop.
For him the key to the kingdom's spiritual revival was to appoint pious, learned, and trustworthy bishops and abbots.
Alfred meant the translation to be used and circulated it to all his bishops.
His retinue also included eighteen bishops and thirteen earls, six of whom were Danes from eastern England.
Since German bishops were an integral part of the secular state, Sweyn's preference for the English church may have been a political move.
Several bishops sought consecration abroad because of the irregularity of Stigand's position.
By the time of his marriage, William was able to arrange the appointments of his supporters as bishops and abbots in the Norman church.
Ecclesiastical offices continued to be held by the same bishops as before the invasion, including the uncanonical Stigand.
Archbishop Arundel gave the Lancastrians vital support and carried other bishops with him.
The Ecclesiastical Appointments Act 1534 required the clergy to elect bishops nominated by the Sovereign.
The Stuart kings used it as a justification for controlling the appointment of bishops.
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The General Synod of the Church of England is the legislative body for the church and comprises bishops, other clergy and laity.
On 14 July 2014, the General Synod approved the ordination of women as bishops.
She and Sarah Mullally, Bishop of Crediton, were the first women to be ordained as bishops at Canterbury Cathedral.
The church had decided in 2013 that gay clergy in civil partnerships could become bishops.
Of the 42 diocesan archbishops and bishops in the Church of England, 26 are permitted to sit in the House of Lords.
Church taxes were paid straight to Rome, and the Pope had the final word in the appointment of bishops.
This removed the refusal of some bishops to enforce the regulations as an obstacle to change.
The bishops who were removed from the ecclesiastical bench were replaced by appointees who would agree to the reforms.
This enabled supporters amongst peers to outvote the bishops and conservative peers.
In 1894 the bishops drafted an address that brought to a head several decades of a very complex intradenominational struggle.
He hosts and chairs the Lambeth Conferences of Anglican Communion bishops, and decides who will be invited to them.
James's bishops forced his Five Articles of Perth through a General Assembly the following year, but the rulings were widely resisted.
Throughout May, the House of Commons launched several bills attacking bishops and episcopalianism in general, each time defeated in the Lords.
The House of Commons also launched bills attacking bishops and episcopacy, but these failed in the Lords.
This established an election system for parish priests and bishops and set a pay rate for the clergy.
Priests and bishops were given salaries as part of a department of government controlled by Paris, not Rome.
A typical Great Council would consist of archbishops, bishops, abbots, barons and earls, the pillars of the feudal system.
The archbishops, bishops, abbots, earls and barons were summoned, as were two knights from each shire and two burgesses from each borough.
The Bishop's Palace has been the home of the bishops of the Diocese of Bath and Wells for 800 years.
The initiative was taken by a small group of Scots connected with the Crichton family, who had supplied the bishops of Dunkeld.
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On 20 July 1554, he published a pamphlet attacking Mary Tudor and the bishops who had brought her to the throne.
He was accompanied to the trial by so many influential persons that the bishops decided to call the hearing off.
Scottish monarchs made repeated efforts to introduce bishops and two ecclesiastical traditions competed.
A few prelates, known as college bishops, were consecrated without sees, to preserve the succession rather than to exercise a defined authority.
The bishops of the Episcopal Church are direct successors of the prelates consecrated to Scottish sees at the Restoration.
As yet, no women have been elected to the episcopate and thus there are no bishops who are women.
As a Presbyterian church, the Church of Scotland is governed by courts of elders rather than by bishops.
As the Church of Scotland is not governed by bishops, it has no cathedrals in the episcopal sense of the word.
The denomination in Scotland is thus governed by its own hierarchy and Bishops' Conference, not under the control of English bishops.
It was composed of three kings, three bishops, and three professors of literature, poetry, and law.
The castle was first erected around 1200 as the residence, prison and fortress of the bishops of the diocese.
Equally most of the bishops and churchmen, who were presidents, were leading academics.
Roberts claimed to be a corporation sole in succession to the bishops and to have the status of a rajah and effective state immunity.
In the absence of the archbishops of Canterbury or York, he was anointed by the bishops of Worcester and Exeter, and crowned by Peter des Roches.
On 20 January 1327, Henry of Lancaster and the bishops of Winchester and Lincoln met privately with Edward in the castle.
In Australia Peter Carnley similarly led a front of bishops opposed to the Government of Australia's involvement in the invasion of Iraq.
The bishops of Lichfield still swear allegiance to the crown on the Lichfield Gospels.
Cathedrals in other parts of Sweden were also built as seats of Sweden's bishops.
After seizing Aachen and capturing Charlemagne's Palace at Nijmegen, he returned to France at the request of the German bishops.
To complicate matters, the bishops of the province of Canterbury also claimed the right to appoint the next archbishop.
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Much of the official organizing of the ecclesiastical structure was done by the bishops of the church.
This tradition of clarification can be seen as established by the Apostolic Fathers, who were bishops themselves.
Important topics addressed in these letters include ecclesiology, the sacraments, the role of bishops, and Biblical Sabbath.
His followers, who were won over by his eloquence and his severely ascetic example, included the bishops Instantius and Salvianus.
Even after the investiture dispute, the King continued to play a major role in the selection of new English and Norman bishops and archbishops.
Henry's chancellors, and those of his queens, became bishops of Durham, Hereford, London, Lincoln, Winchester and Salisbury.
The warrior bishops, electors, pfalzgrafs, and knights of the empire, all swore it was no shame not to be a match for Sathanas.
Late in the year Alaric sent bishops to express his readiness to leave Italy if Honorius would only grant his people a supply of grain.
In 1262, after a long struggle with the ruling bishops, its citizens gained the status of free imperial city.
Some heretical sects emerged in Hispania, most notably Priscillianism, but overall the local bishops remained subordinate to the Pope.
However, Ambrose feared the consequences and prevailed upon the emperor to have the matter determined by a council of the Western bishops.
In the hierarchy of the church, bishops and abbots looked to the patronage of the king's palace, where the sources of patronage and security lay.
Numerous Merovingians who served as bishops and abbots, or who generously funded abbeys and monasteries, were rewarded with sainthood.
Kings often employed bishops in administrative affairs and often determined who would be appointed to ecclesiastical offices.
In the Holy Roman Empire, the main dukes and bishops of the kingdom elected the King of the Romans.
During the first five years of Soviet power, the Bolsheviks executed 28 Russian Orthodox bishops and over 1,200 Russian Orthodox priests.
The rank of archbishop is conferred on some bishops who are not ordinaries of an archdiocese.
Of the roughly three hundred bishops in attendance at the Council of Nicea, two bishops did not sign the Nicene Creed that condemned Arianism.
Constantius used his power to exile bishops adhering to the Nicene creed, especially St Athanasius of Alexandria, who fled to Rome.
Some were ruled by princes or other hereditary rulers, some were governed by bishops or abbots.
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It made recommendations concerning personnel for the administrative, fiscal, and military, as well as bishops of overseas dioceses.
The senior bishop of the seven diocesan bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church bears the truncated title Primus from primus inter pares.
The difference is that the other bishops are vicars of Christ for their own local churches, the pope is vicar of Christ for the whole Church.
Among the principal duties of bishops the preaching of the Gospel occupies an eminent place.
The elector authorised a visitation of the church, a power formerly exercised by bishops.
There is a national House of Bishops, which meets regularly throughout the year, as well as provincial houses of bishops.
The General Synod meets triennially and consists of lay people, clergy, and bishops from each of the 29 dioceses.
The Episcopal Church is an apostolic church, tracing its bishops back to the apostles via holy orders.
This means that the church is organized into dioceses led by bishops in consultation with representative bodies.
The election of a bishop requires the consent of a majority of standing committees and diocesan bishops.
Each standing commission consists of three bishops, three priests or deacons, and six laypersons.
These courts are empowered to discipline and depose deacons, priests, and bishops.
Churches with an episcopal polity are governed by bishops, practicing their authorities in the dioceses and conferences or synods.
In communion with the worldwide college of bishops, the Pope has all legitimate juridical and teaching authority over the whole Church.
Within each national Church, the bishops form a holy synod to which even the Patriarch is subject.
Currently the bishops of the Assyrian Church of the East continue to maintain its apostolic succession.
Whether King Sweyn was a heathen or not, he enlisted priests and bishops from England rather than from Hamburg.
What did change was that bishops were now seen to be ministers of the Crown for the spiritual government of its subjects.
This series was seen originally as that of the bishops of a particular see founded by one or more of the apostles.
The apostles then passed on this office and authority by ordaining bishops to follow after them.
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The bishop, of course, must be from an unbroken line of bishops stemming from the original apostles selected by Jesus Christ.
This does not imply that these bishops are more successors of Peter than all others in an ontological sense.
These three consecrated bishops returned to Litice in Bohemia and then ordained other brothers, thereby preserving the historic episcopate.
But for the historic succession to be considered legitimate by Rome or the Othodox or Anglicans it must be mediated through the correct bishops.
Only through bishops connected to the pope is the historic succession legitimate in their eyes.
The synod in the Western churches is similar, but it is distinguished by being usually limited to an assembly of bishops.
They are teachings upheld as authoritative, generally for a long time, by the entire body of bishops.
Illustrating this, at the Council of Basle in 1439, bishops and other clergy were greatly outnumbered by doctors of theology.
Notably, Hooker affirmed that the power and propriety of bishops need not be in every case absolute.
The Lambeth Conference is a decennial assembly of bishops of the Anglican Communion convened by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
There had been no plan for further debate but the bishops unexpectedly returned to the subject of Colenso, delaying the end of the conference.
It was agreed that the reports of the committees would be received at a final meeting on 10 December by those bishops still in England.
The American bishops suggested a further conference in 1874, Kerfoot of Pittsburgh delivering the request in person.
One bishop suffragan and a number of former colonial bishops with commissions in England also attended as full members.
The first event was a visit by the bishops to the Augustine monument at Ebbsfleet.
The bishops then travelled back to Canterbury to be ready for the opening service of the conference on the following day.
This was because of the increase in the number of bishops attending, as well as the presence of almost 100 observers and consultants.
Meetings were instead held at Church House, Westminster although the bishops, with their spouses, were invited to dinner at Lambeth by rotation.
Invitations were sent to more than 880 bishops around the world for the Fourteenth Conference.
When the Eucharist was over, bishops and others came to pray in front of the small altar in the chapel.
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According to Polly Ha, the Reformed Church Government refuted this claiming that the bishops had been enforcing canon law for 1500 years.
Important communications were also forwarded to the bishop of the provincial capital to be brought to the notice of the other bishops.
A right of precedence over other bishops and similar privileges can be granted even to a bishop who is not a Primate.
Thus, in 1858, the Holy See granted the Archbishop of Baltimore precedence in meetings of the United States bishops.
They presided over synods of bishops, and were granted special privileges by canon law and sacred tradition.
The bishop of the provincial capital, the metropolitan, enjoyed certain rights over other bishops in the province, later called suffragans.
Similarly, a metropolitan has the right to ordain and enthrone the bishops of his province.
Within major archiepiscopal churches, there may be ecclesiastical provinces headed by metropolitan bishops.
Eastern Orthodox bishops, along with all other members of the clergy, are canonically forbidden to hold political office.
Steenoven appointed and ordained bishops to the sees of Deventer, Haarlem and Groningen.
Since 1998, the PNCC did not permit IBC bishops to participate in PNCC episcopal consecrations.
For the consecrations, from 1917 onwards bishops from other churches were invited as guests.
They were organised as a Church in the 8th century, served by foreign bishops and with a hereditary local chief called Arkadiyokon or Archdeacon.
Since 1964, IFI bishops have also been regular participants of the Lambeth Conferences.
This was highly controversial and led several hundred bishops to boycott the 2008 Lambeth Conference.
As an alternative to Lambeth, many of these bishops attended the Global Anglican Futures Conference in Jerusalem.
Before he could take up his post there was strong opposition from a minority of bishops and he was persuaded to not proceed with the appointment.
The working group included Sir Joseph Pilling chairman, four bishops and three advisers.
A panel of three senior bishops has been set up to advise other bishops on how to apply the guidance when clergy dissent.
The bishops have announced a process of listening and reflection within the church.
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In 2013, Archbishop Nicholas Okoh opposed the Church of England's decision to allow gay bishops, even if celibate, to enter into civil unions.
These bishops in turn largely consecrated new bishops in their respective countries, effectively erasing other episcopal lines.
This was done so that ELCA ministers ordained by these ELCA bishops could also serve in the Episcopal Church.
The Council of Trent also gave bishops greater power to supervise all aspects of religious life.
Only baptised males are ordained to holy orders as bishops, presbyters and deacons, or admitted to the public teaching office of reader.
Within six months of its founding in 1873, the REC grew to about 1,500 communicants, two bishops and 15 other ministers.
Appeals are heard by the Court of Review for the Trial of a Bishop, also comprising nine bishops.
The Constitution of the national Episcopal Church provides that this court must be composed only of bishops.
Eventually, as Christendom grew, bishops no longer directly served individual congregations.
However, the role of Western bishops as civil authorities, often called prince bishops, continued throughout much of the Middle Ages.
Bishops in all of these communions are ordained by other bishops through the laying on of hands.
He may, or may not, have provincial oversight of suffragan bishops and may possibly have auxiliary bishops assisting him.
The papal nuncio usually solicits names from the bishops of a country, and then selects three to be forwarded to the Holy See.
Within the United Methodist Church only bishops are empowered to consecrate bishops and ordain clergy.
In all of these areas, bishops of the United Methodist Church function very much in the historic meaning of the term.
The Salvation Army does not have bishops but has appointed leaders of geographical areas, known as Divisional Commanders.
The mitre, zuchetto, and stole are generally worn by bishops when presiding over liturgical functions.
Anglican bishops generally make use of the mitre, crosier, ecclesiastical ring, purple cassock, purple zucchetto, and pectoral cross.
The diocesan bishop may request that the Holy See appoint one or more auxiliary bishops, to assist him in his duties.
The Eastern Orthodox Church views all bishops as sacramentally equal, and in principle holding equal authority, each over his own see.
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Of these, Durham was practically independent, for the palatine bishops of that see were little short of sovereigns in their own jurisdiction.
When a bishop is consecrated, the laying of hands may be done by all the bishops present.
But the nazification process failed after the Supreme Court resigned and both organized sports and bishops boycotted the new regime.
Only three of the 38 provinces within the Anglican Communion have ordained female bishops, though it is possible in about 11 others.
Anglo-Catholics are no better when they cite it as an argument against women bishops.
Bernard writes that all the bishops opposed the annates bill in the beginning.
She has demonstrated that many bishops boycotted Cyprian's great council of 256 because they disagreed with him about rebaptism.
In 1992, the Pope beatified Escriva in a gesture praised by many bishops who supported reinvigorating the mission of lay people.
Since he had ordained married men as bishops, the Vatican excommunicated him latae sententiae.
How many temporary bishops do we anticipate if local options continue to expand?
He was remembered as a good shepherd to the people of Saginaw diocese, a comforter of priests and a challenge to fellow bishops.
Pastors are assigned to congregations by bishops, distinguishing it from presbyterian government.
In April 2005, bishops in the United Methodist Church approved A Proposal for Interim Eucharistic Sharing.
In the Greek tradition, bishops who occupy an ancient see are called metropolitans, while the lead bishop in Greece is the archbishop.
In the first five years after the Bolshevik revolution, 28 bishops and 1,200 priests were executed.
Theoretically, the power to elect archbishops and bishops is vested in the diocesan cathedral's college of canons.
Even during the early years of the Peerage, the position of bishops was unclear.
If the bishops were only Lords of Parliament, and not peers, their right to petition would be vitiated while Parliament was dissolved.
However an increase in the bench of bishops was not considered politically expedient, and so steps were undertaken to prevent it.
In the former case there would be 12 Church of England bishops in the reformed Upper House.
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James VI of Scotland favoured doctrinal Calvinism but supported the bishops.
After the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660, Scotland regained its kirk, but also the bishops.
The bishops and those that followed them became the Scottish Episcopal Church.
Proposals in 1957 for union with the Church of England were rejected over the issue of bishops and were severely attacked in the Scottish press.
By the time he died in 1625, the Church of Scotland had a full panel of bishops and archbishops.
As with the primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, the Archbishop of Wales serves concurrently as one of the six diocesan bishops.
The Archbishop of Wales is elected from the currently seated diocesan bishops and continues as a diocesan after election.
It is a commonly held misconception that there must be six diocesan bishops in order to hold the electoral college for the Archbishop of Wales.
In 1834 all but two of the bishops of the Church of England confirmed that they would accept holders of Durham degrees for ordination.
The parliament, like other such institutions, evolved during the Middle Ages from the king's council of bishops and earls.
Later, the bishops themselves were removed from the Church of Scotland during the Glorious Revolution and the accession of William of Orange.
The bishops continued to sit in Parliament regardless of whether they conformed to Protestantism or not.
The bishops were abolished by the Covenanters in 1638, when Parliament became an entirely lay assembly.
The final settlement restored Presbyterianism and abolished the bishops, who had generally supported James.
On 26 September Cardinal Alberic, Bishop of Ostia, arrived at Carlisle where David had called together his kingdom's nobles, abbots and bishops.
The bishops of Moray and Glasgow were in attendance as well as the earls of Atholl, Menteith, Lennox, and Mar.
It was run by special councils made up of all the Scottish bishops, with the bishop of St Andrews emerging as the most important figure.
Further, the clergy were enjoined to scriptural reflection, and bishops and parsons instructed to preach at least four times a year.
This plan was complicated by the conversion of three bishops to Protestantism, who were allowed to remain in their posts.
Wesley came to believe that the New Testament evidence did not leave the power of ordination to the priesthood in the hands of bishops but that other priests could ordain.

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