Sentence examples for majority of the bishops from inspiring English sources

The management of the synod, the archbishops and a majority of the bishops, were prepared to offer this.

A majority of the bishops, most of Rhenish Franconia (the Salian homeland), and some important Bavarian and Swabian vassals sided with Henry.

In the end, though, a majority of the bishops voted to overrule him, his only such loss in his six-year tenure as head of Argentina's bishops' conference.

"When you saw that the majority of the bishops preferred to have a dialogue with the military," Father Pérez del Viso, 78, said, "it's not easy to say, 'We will do something different.' " He added: "Many of the bishops opted, rather than to confront the military head on, to try to intercede in private conversations for those they could save".

Both were elected at a convention of the diocese in December, but according to church rules had to win the approval of a majority of the bishops and standing committees (made up of clergy and laypeople) of the church's 110 dioceses.

One of the most depressing aspects of the Pope's new hard-line policy is that it has been inspired and supported by the same group of Church officials who tried unsuccessfully to thwart the majority of the bishops at the Council.

The French Revolution and lack of support from the majority of the German bishops led to the collapse of Febronianism by the end of the 18th century.

On January 24 , 1076 at the imperial assembly of Worms, Henry IV and the vast majority of the German bishops replied in even harsher terms to Gregory's letter and oral message.

The partisans of Innocent II answered that Innocent II was elected by majority of the cardinal-bishops, who according to the decree In Nomine Domini had to play the preeminent role in the election.

But the church faithful still await an accounting of the long years of cover-up and the "stunning failures of the overwhemingly majority of U.S. bishops," in the words of The National Catholic Reporter.

"Well, the vast majority of bishops support women bishops".