Sentences with phrase «consecrate bishops»

Gennadius, Patriarch of Constantinople (458 - 471 A.D.), would not ordain anyone who had not been diligently reciting the psalms; the second Council of Nicaea (587 A. D.) concluded that no one was to be consecrated bishop unless he knew the Psalter thoroughly; and the eighth Council of Toledo (653 A.D.) ordered that no one be promoted to any ecclesiastical position who did not know perfectly the entire collection (Ross, 27).

Ker recalls that it was the voice of a youngster in the crowd at Milan (not a cleric) which resulted in Ambrose being consecrated its bishop.

Pope Pius was consecrated bishop on the day of the miracle of the sun and consecrated the world to her Immaculate Heart.

According to Church of England practice, only a bishop could consecrate another bishop.

Although arriving in his mid-sixties and living well into his eighties, when most men find it necessary to slow down, Theodore traveled extensively through the island, creating dioceses, consecrating bishops, and improving the education of the clergy and the public worship.

Not exact matches

The arrangement of allowing a Jerusalem cleric to serve the parish while commemorating the Antiochian bishop worked fine until March 2013, when Jerusalem decided to consecrate its priest in Qatar as the «Archbishop of Qatar.»

In his Address to the Nobility of the German Nation (1520), Luther criticized the traditional distinction between the «temporal» and «spiritual» orders — the laity and the clergy — arguing that all who belong to Christ through faith, baptism, and the Gospel shared in the priesthood of Jesus Christ and belonged «truly to the spiritual estate»: «For whoever comes out of the water of baptism can boast that he is already a consecrated priest, bishop, and pope, although of course it is not seemly that just anybody shall exercise such office.»

It was Scotland who came to our rescue and consecrated our first bishop, Samuel Seabury.

Women will be able to be consecrated as bishops of the Anglican Church in Wales by September 2014, a...

«This supernatural bread and this consecrated chalice are for the health and salvation of mankind» St Cyprian, bishop of Carthage, third century

Later there is some evidence for virgins taking formal vows and living either in their own home or in a group under the guidance of bishops such as St Athanasius and St Ambrose, and this continued for centuries until monastic life became the dominant form of female consecrated life.

He said: «It is a great privilege and honour to consecrate Anne as the new Bishop of Aberdeen & Orkney and to welcome her to the College of Bishops.

During this time the ranks of St. Mark's, an Episcopal congregation in Glen Ellyn, had been swelling — until the Episcopal Church consecrated an openly gay bishop in 2003, whereupon many St. Mark's members left to form All Souls, still another AMIA church, in Wheaton.

This was one of the many reasons Lefebvre — against the expressed will of Pope John Paul II — consecrated four new SSPX bishops in 1988, provoking a schism, his own excommunication, and those of others directly involved.

We have a leadership crisis in the Church at the level of bishops and archbishops, most of whom were consecrated under Blessed John Paul II.

Every Catholic bishop is directly consecrated by the pope.

In the list of bishops consecrated by Catholicos Timothy I (780 - 820), there is the mention of bishops of Yemen and Sana.

A new bishop is consecrated, which makes him (or now very occasionally her) a bishop.

Even if the priests can preside over some of the revered symbols [sacraments], a priest could not perform the sacred divine birth [baptism] without the divine ointment [the oils consecrated by the bishop], nor could he perform the mystery of Holy Communion without having first placed on the altar the symbols of that Communion.

The Episcopal Church consecrated its first openly lesbian bishop Saturday in the face of objections from some conservative Anglicans.

Bishops are normally consecrated at St Paul's Cathedral in London, but the Archbishop of Canterbury is understood to have given special permission for Bishop David to be consecrated at his local cathedral in Winchester.

The Episcopal Church consecrated its first openly gay bishop, Gene Robinson, in 2003, angering some conservative Episcopalians.

Translated into Institutional practice, Luther was suggesting that when a bishop consecrated a priest, he was simply acting on behalf of the community to license a man to use power he already had through his baptism.

For example, we were invited to send a representative as auditor to the Synod of Bishops in Rome in 1994 dealing with «The Consecrated Life and Its Role in the Church and the World.»

In his 10th March letter To The Bishops Of The Catholic Church Concerning The Remission Of The Excommunication Of The Four Bishops Consecrated By Archbishop Lefebvre Pope Benedict says the first duty of a Pope and the top priority of his pontificate is captured by St Peter's phrase:

when in AD 1328, Pope John XXII consecrated him as bishop of Quilon (Kerala, India) with a double mission.

At the immersion, beginning at cockcrow, the bishop was assisted by presbyters and deacons, one of the latter going into the water naked with the neophytes After the neophytes had dressed themselves and joined the larger company, the bishop confirmed them with the laying on of hands and anointment with consecrated oil.

Very late accounts 15 of the «peculiarities» of Alexandria make plausible this description of a presbyteral constitution with the twelve choosing from their midst one to be bishop and consecrating him.