All eleven women risked suspension as deacons, and the four bishops "could be suspended or deposed by a church trial court" for ignoring a church canon prohibiting retired bishops from performing "episcopal acts" unless asked by a local bishop.
After royal claims gradually transformed election into royal appointment, admission to office was effected by the bestowal, or investiture, by the lord of ring and staff (symbols of the episcopal office), preceded by an act of homage.
According to a journalist of TV2000, a channel owned by the Italian Episcopal Conference, this gesture represents an act of exorcism.
In 1689 England's religious solution was defined by an Act of Toleration that continued the established church as episcopal but also made it possible for dissenting groups to have licensed chapels.
Robinson served as Youth Ministries Coordinator for the seven Episcopal dioceses in the Episcopal Province of New England from 1978 to 1985 and acted as executive secretary for the province from 1983 to 2003.
Prior to her conversion, Washington consulted with a clergyman at her Episcopal church, and in response to his concern, she replied: "Oh no, I must act up to my convictions and I shall pray hard that you may be given the same grace".
Several "external" cardinals acted as papal legates or vicars, often in the region of their episcopal seat or abbey.
Eastern Orthodoxy interprets the primacy of Peter and therefore that of the pope similarly, denying the right of the pope to speak and act for the entire church by himself, without a church council and without his episcopal colleagues.
Burnham is better known as one of the "flying bishops" — suffragan bishops who, by an act of synod when women were admitted to the priesthood, travel their provinces as "episcopal visitors" to churches that will not accept the service of a female priest.
Oswald gave the island of Lindisfarne to Aidan as his episcopal see, and Aidan achieved great success in spreading the Christian faith; Bede mentions that Oswald acted as Aidan's interpreter when the latter was preaching, since Aidan did not know English well and Oswald had learned Irish during his exile.
