Sentence examples for episcopate from inspiring English sources

Most of the Anglican churches have accepted these agreements; through mutual participation in episcopal consecrations, rather more than half the Anglican episcopate in the world has the Old Catholic as well as the Anglican episcopal succession.

Although it did not occur without fierce opposition (e.g., Montanism), the concentration of penitential discipline in the bishops' hands probably contributed more to the strengthening of episcopal power and to the achievement of the monarchical episcopate in the church than any other single factor.

On the other hand, many African Anglicans love the idea of an episcopate that goes back to the dawn of the Christian era, something the Pentecostalists can't provide.

The pope is also a bishop (of Rome); members of the Catholic episcopate normally retire at 75.If so, the lesson for the 117 cardinal-electors when they meet, probably in mid-March, is to find someone young and vigorous.

In the non-established Anglican churches of the British Isles (Wales, Scotland and Ireland), there was a more spiritual debate, unheeded by the secular world, about the church as an inclusive "body of Christ" and all three Celtic groups had marched ahead of their English brethren in blessing a female episcopate.

Mary Glasspool is the second openly gay person to be elevated to the episcopate in the national church.

Supporters of the reunion retort that most of today's Russian episcopate was elevated after the Soviet period; they also hope that the reunion will help along a continuing reassessment of all eras of Russian history.

As a priest from the provinces, unsophisticated and with rudimentary Latin, his appointment as archbishop of Manila in 1974 had been a surprise to the rest of the episcopate.

By justifying Sergius, the dissidents insist, the Moscow church implicitly condemns others who went underground or remained defiant and paid with their lives.The dissenters' argument is that by defending deals made under the Soviet regime, today's church is endorsing a Soviet-era episcopate which not only obeyed Stalin but fawned on him.

His episcopate, as such, was uneventful.

The supreme authority in the church can be exercised not only personally by the pope himself but also in a collegial fashion by the whole episcopate, which of necessity includes the bishop of Rome as its head.