Sentences with phrase «ordained bishop»

Whitehead, who was ordained a bishop in January 2016, maintains that both lawsuits were «handled in court and have been dealt with.»

Cyprian was fully participant in the growing confraternity of bishops, his colleagues, as he called them; but, though he was strategically located in the first see of North Africa, he was foremost in insisting that each properly elected and ordained bishop was supreme in his own church, 92 unless morally derelict.

In Rise, Let Us Be on Our Way, which he wrote on the fiftieth anniversary of being ordained a bishop, John Paul II said that courage is the most important quality expected of a bishop.

It is surprising, given the events of the last year, to imagine that some members of the Roman Catholic clergy actively seek to be ordained a bishop, and even regard their path towards this office as an ecclesiastical «career.»

A newly ordained bishop of the persecuted Church in China has chosen fidelity over personal comfort and political accommodation.

Later in the month, on a journey to help settle a controversy at Zeit, near Naumburg, and to ordain a bishop in Merseburg, all the burdens suddenly became more than Luther could tolerate, and the simple decision not to return to Wittenberg took hold of him.

Not exact matches

«Through the ordained ministry, especially that of bishops and priests, the presence of Christ as head of the Church is made visible in the midst of the community of believers.

A new bishop dedicated to serving Indian Catholics has been ordained at a football stadium in Lancashire.

The Easter edition of the Sunday magazine had a long article on Episcopal bishops ordaining homosexuals, written by gay advocate Bruce Bawer.

The parishes will be led by former Anglican clergy - including those who are married - who could be ordained as Catholic priests, according to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Marking a new era for the Roman Catholic Church in England, three former Anglican bishops were ordained as Catholic priests in London on Saturday, the first to take advantage of a new Vatican program that makes it easier for dissatisfied Anglicans to enter Catholicism.

With that definition in place, Louie Crew proceeds to grade the 113 bishops in the Episcopalian House of Bishops who have since 1979 voted on one or more resolutions having do with ordaining homosbishops in the Episcopalian House of Bishops who have since 1979 voted on one or more resolutions having do with ordaining homosBishops who have since 1979 voted on one or more resolutions having do with ordaining homosexuals.

In 2018 we can also recall 1988, when an Archbishop led a group out of the Church, ordaining his own bishops without Papal mandate and spending the next years denouncing the activities and teachings of the Popes from John XXIII onwards.

After the Episcopal Church ordained its second openly gay bishop in 2010, Matthews began reading more and eventually embraced a theology that suggests gay Christians do not need to be celibate.

Davidek and some of the other putative bishops had already died, but those men whom they had ordained and who were deemed qualified for the priesthood were «conditionally» ordained and their positions regularized under the hierarchy.

The Vatican stepped up its battle with the Chinese Catholic Church this weekend, excommunicating a bishop who was ordained during the week without the pope's permission.

Only bishops could ordain, confirm, and exercise discipline through ecclesiastical courts; therefore they were desperately needed in America.

Erwin, who was ordained a pastor in 2011, played down his election as the ELCA's first openly gay bishop.

The Arab laity complained that their churches were allowed to deteriorate and that no new ones were built; that the Greeks ordained illiterate Arab priests, forbade them to preach, and limited their duties to the performance of the Sunday liturgy; and that the Greeks encouraged Arab deacons to marry prior to ordination, so as to render them ineligible for promotion to bishop or appointment to the celibate Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre, which governs the Patriarchate.

Ordained as bishop in 370, he had long preached social justice in his sermons.

One bishop is supposed to have said» sure let's ordain women, but let's reject the first thousand applicants».

That a man - made organization with (presumably) good - intentions has had women bishops ordained ought not be mistaken as bearing the authority of scripture.

One of eight children born to an Irish immigrant, Hannan was ordained auxiliary bishop of Washington in 1956.

He denied that the vote was about whether or not to ordain women bishops, saying the Church of England had already decided to go ahead with that.

The three-fold job to which bishops are ordained is to «teach, sanctify, and govern.»

In this instance, the virtue of docility includes a respect for bishops that requires recalling them to the duty and the dignity to which they were ordained.

Their only interest is in helping the bishops to be more effectively the shepherds they are ordained to be.

Again, the NRB wants bishops to be bishops, as they were ordained to be.

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).

But now, as an Anglican woman, not only could I enrol on any course for missionary, lay or ordained ministry, I could also set my sights on becoming a bishop.

The canon specifically affirmed the rights of all Christians to marry, whether they be layperson, ordained priests or even bishops.

It was their duty, when the church found a minister duly ordained and sent by bishops, to present him officially to the governor, who would then legally install the minister in the parish.

In that way, the Church assured itself that the man was correctly ordained by a bishop, and that he supported the practice and the faith of the English Church.

The Church in Wales has announced new measures to ordain women as bishops while «making everyone feel valued in the Church, regardless of their views on the issue».

Although women are now ordained to all three orders within the Church of England (deacon, priest and bishop), fewer than a quarter of those seeking ordination under the age of 30 are female and fewer than two per cent of leaders of larger Anglican churches are female.

She was among the first women in Australia to be ordained as a bishop in 2008.

For, here he was, ordaining in the most direct way a clear and tangible reduction in the powers of bishops over their clergy: this was not going to go unchallenged.

The bishops again ordain the priests.

In short, these are the bishops we have, and there is no structural change that can make them better be the bishops that God called them to be, that they were ordained to be, and that the faithful have a right to expect them to be.

(Bishops are ordained to «teach, sanctify, and govern,» and the first of these is to teach.)

However, the plans could prove to be decisive as the proposals would mean Methodist clergy who had not been ordained by a bishop would be entitled to hold Church of England services.

Most Revd Justin Welby has already indicated that the first women bishop could now be ordained by Christmas.

The Episcopal Church has been ordaining women to the priesthood since 1974 and we have women deacons, priests and bishops throughout the church - including two women bishops here in the Diocese of Los Angeles.

In the English Alternative Service Book (pp. 356 and following), the bishop who is ordaining candidates for the priesthood is directed to speak in this fashion in what is called «The Declaration»; which is then followed by questions and answers in - tended to demonstrate the reality of the ordinands» «call to ministry»:

He further permitted him to confirm bishops whom he would ordain, without coming for such confirmation to the Catholicos.

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In June 21, 1970 Romero was ordained as bishop.

Over 500 bishops and priests were ordained as Catholic priests.

Until now, AMiE's clergy have either come from the Church of England or have been ordained by overseas bishops.

Many Anglicans, however, who have insisted that clergy should be ordained by a bishop in the apostolic succession20 have not been willing to receive Communion from clergy not so ordained, although Anglicans now seem more relaxed about this.