Sentences with phrase «to become a bishop»

Nobody could become a bishop if he did not have contacts with this organization.»

If you thought you deserved to become a bishop over a town, and it looked like another man might get the position, one way to get the job for yourself is to accuse the other man of being divisive and teaching false doctrine.

You might have a better chance becoming the bishop of Rome.

Before becoming a bishop, Dr Jenkins was a Professor of Theology at the University of Leeds, and spent 15 years prior to that as a fellow and chaplain of Queen's College, Oxford.

Soon after becoming bishop, he put his authority into action, establishing soup kitchens, hospitals, hospices and poorhouses throughout the region.

I don't understand why some people feel threaten by a woman becoming a bishop.

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.

You're becoming a bishop just over a year since Pope Francis was elected to the See of Peter.

We may and perhaps ought to be impatient about the world's quip that when a man becomes a bishop he will never thereafter eat a bad meal, read a good book, or hear the truth.

Most Rev Justin Welby didn't specifically name people in particular who have become bishops without the permission of the bishop in the diocese or province, but rather from another bishop across the border.

Gregory senior became bishop of the neighbouring town of Nazianzus and lived to see 100.

It is the first time a female could be chosen to become a bishop since the General Synod approved legislation in July allowing women to take up the jobs.

«The positive action remit of the Equality Act is something people will have in mind in the Church now as women are eligible to become bishops for the first time,» he said.

By the time St. Augustine became the bishop of a provincial Roman city, many civic functions had devolved to the Church, and he spent most of his mornings deciding legal cases.

But, as you explain, what happened in the Catholic church is that people that belonged to the higher social class became bishops / cardinals / popes / abbots.

Her mother was a teacher and her father was a priest who later became a bishop in the Church of England.

CNN: Priests in same - sex relationships may become Anglican Bishops Men in a civil union will now be allowed to become bishops in the Church of England, but they are not allowed to have sex.

Dr Jeffrey John is said to have been shortlisted to become the bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich within the Church of England.

He didn't want to know them that he turned in Jesus, because after the seizure of Jesus Judas wanted to become the bishop of the disciples.

He became bishop of Arundel and Brighton in 1977.

July 15th was a historic day in the life of the UK Anglican Church as the door finally opened for women to become bishops.

He was so successful that it was said that when he became bishop he found only seventeen other Christians there and that when he died, about thirty years later, there were only seventeen pagans.

Gregory became a Christian and on his return to Pontus, he was persuaded to become bishop.

His Confessions serve as an artful self - presentation designed to bring readers to see the truth about God and our journey to him, not the life - in - full of a North African rhetorician on his way to becoming a bishop.

Rev Canon Anne Dyer will become bishop of Aberdeen & Orkney in a service at St Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen, that will also be livestreamed online.

(CNN)- Men in a civil union will now be allowed to become bishops in the Church of England, but they are not allowed to have sex.

Men and women in same - sex unions were already allowed to serve as priests in the Church of England, but there was a moratorium on advancement to the episcopate - becoming a bishop - while the church considered the issue.

On another occasion he expressed interest in becoming a bishop.

CNN: Church of England rejects female bishops by six votes After decades of debate, the Church of England formally voted down draft legislation that would have allowed women to become bishops.

The House of Lords has approved the decision to allow women to become bishops in the Church of England... More

Such an inference anticipates the bitter warning of Tertullian, at the turn of the third century, in his treatise De Baptismo, XVII, 2, that «the striving to become bishop is the mother of all schism.»

The House of Lords has approved the decision to allow women to become bishops in the Church of England without the need for a vote.

What has not been realized is Ullathorne's contribution to the Decree on Infallibility at Vatican I. Ullathorne had a great affection for Pius IX (they became bishop in the same year) but this was balanced by his view of the episcopacy.

Openly gay Anglican priest Very Rev Dr Jeffrey John is once again in the running to become a bishop.

But church rules do bar anyone in a sexual relationship outside marriage from becoming a bishop - which implies that a gay man can become a bishop only if he is celibate.

St. Ignatius famously did not want his men to become bishops and even resisted the Vatican at times to prevent that from happening.

On 2013-01-05 anglicans allowed gay priests to become bishops when Leviticus 20:13 (the supposed word of an inerrant god) clearly advocates killing gays.

Dr Jeffrey John is said to have been shortlisted to become the bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich within... More

They lived on the same street as Brian Foley, who was later to become the bishop of Lancaster.

How can we claim that the Holy Spirit now tells us that women are to become bishops and priests when it could just as well be said that the Holy Spirit at one time guided the Church to keep a male ministry of Bishops, priests, and deacons?

It must have been a cruel irony to women trying to become bishops that they were rejected by people playing the martyr.

She made the most of that, telling the person who she should have been standing up against - Theresa May - to give up on the Tories and «apply to become a bishop».

[71] The church had decided in 2013 that gay clergy in civil partnerships could become bishops.