Sentence examples for office of bishop from inspiring English sources

"The House has confirmed that clergy in civil partnerships, and living in accordance with the teaching of the church on human sexuality, can be considered as candidates for the episcopate," or the office of bishop, Bishop Graham James of Norwich said in a statement.

And soon the office of bishop is going to be unisex too.

The development of the creed and the office of bishop also can be traced to his conflicts with the Gnostics.

Welby is the third archbishop of Canterbury in the time Chartres has held the office of bishop of London.

I believe this is an alarming weakness of character that alone makes Gene unsuitable for the office of bishop".

Neither Jesus nor his followers claimed to be priests, Wills maintains, and "there is no historical evidence for Peter being bishop anywhere — least of all at Rome, where the office of bishop did not exist in the first century C.E".

Of the two, Cardinal Re, a canon lawyer and diplomat responsible for the office of bishops, is thought to have a much closer personal relationship with the pope.

Different groups form consensus on understandings of different doctrines about The Sacraments, The Triune God (versus Arian Belief concerning God), pastor, order of services, offices of bishop, presbyter and such, deacon, marriage, healing, prophesies, praying to saints, speaking unknown tongues, formalities, rituals, written prayers, or informality, pray as the Spirit of God gives utterance, etc.

(She was elected by the diocese of Massachusetts as a suffragan bishop, and as such she did not head the diocese. A number of other women have subsequently been elected to the office of suffragan bishop or bishop in other dioceses).

BRUSSELS — The Belgian authorities searched the offices of bishops in three cities on Monday, removing documents as part of an investigation into child sexual abuse that has plunged the country's Roman Catholic church into crisis.

The office of the bishop of Darwin, Eugene Hurley, has been contacted for comment.