Sentences with phrase «unity in their particular churches»
It is certainly true that Vatican II's teaching on the «collegial union» of the bishops balances the earlier assertions of Vatican I. Moreover Lumen Gentium also teaches that «the individual bishops... are the visible principle and foundation of unity in their particular churches» and as such individual bishops enjoy their own proper authority in their diocese.
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Though the journal in these years, and for considerable decades to come, was thoroughly Protestant in its ecumenism, and a particular type of Protestant as well, it regularly addressed the importance of unity for the life of the church.
During the past year in particular, two events, epoch - making in their importance, and of great significance to Christians of all confessions, have strengthened the unity of Orthodox Churches to a degree unprecedented in modern history.