Sentence examples for individual bishops from inspiring English sources

Many individual bishops fumed.

So far the church has left it up to individual bishops to organise around the pope's climate message.

Individual bishops, he reaffirmed, reigned supreme in their dioceses and reported only to the authority of the pope in Rome.

While it has been an aggressive critic of individual bishops and church policies, it also had an official role during the conference's meeting in Dallas in June.

More than 100 individual bishops have rendered official responses to Francis's teaching on the environment, more than half of the church hierarchy.

In its statement, from which many individual bishops may have privately demurred, it endorsed the encyclical in full and directed that it must be obeyed to the letter.

But the decision to laicize or "defrock" a priest is still left to the discretion of the individual bishop.

But what the bishops have to explain next week is whether that power still depends on the will and conscientiousness of the individual bishop and whether it will still be exercised by priests alone under "the shroud of secrecy".

Anglican churches subsequently were pressed from both theological liberals and traditionalists at home and abroad over whether or not they would bless same-sex unions (this decision was largely left up to the individual bishop of a diocese).

According to Snyder, the effect of the new rules in such cases "will depend greatly on the individual bishop's interpretation".

The report said that letter "effectively gave individual Irish bishops the freedom to ignore the procedures" and "gave comfort and support" to priests who "dissented from the stated Irish church policy".