Sentences with phrase «irish episcopate»

In the long run the Pope's authority was not exercised at the expense of the Irish episcopate, but rather in order to renew and to strengthen it.

It is true that Keble had reacted to the reorganisation of the Irish episcopate by preaching his Assize sermon, but that was seen as an encroachment on Church authority.

Not exact matches

Great episcopal figures of the antebellum period — for example, the Irish liberal John England of Charleston, and the pugnacious John Hughes of New York — were «fitted» into the Carrollingian story line (if I may be pardoned the neologism) even as their distinctive styles and the accomplishments of their episcopates stretched the boundaries of the «Carroll Church.»