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Episcopal and polity
Episcopal polity is a form of church governance that is hierarchical in structure with the chief authority over a local Christian church resting in a bishop.
Others, including the Church of Sweden, practice episcopal polity ; the Church of Sweden also counts its bishops among the historic episcopate as do some American Lutheran churches like the Anglo-Lutheran Catholic Church, Lutheran Orthodox Church, Lutheran Church-International, and the Lutheran Episcopal Communion.
Churches that are members of the Anglican Communion are episcopal churches in polity, and some are named " Episcopal.
Methodist denominations typically give lay members representation at regional and national meetings ( conferences ) at which the business of the church is conducted, making it different from most episcopal government ( The Episcopal Church USA, however, has a representational polity giving lay members, priests, and bishops voting privileges ).
But the liturgy and doctrines have nothing to do with Huguenot practices and polity, as it is Episcopal in character.
Like other Anglican churches, it has retained elements of pre-Reformation practice, notably its Episcopal polity, while rejecting papal authority.
This body maintained its own polity until it reunited with the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Protestant Church to form the The Methodist Church in 1939, which in turn later ( 1968 ) merged with the Evangelical United Brethren Church to form The United Methodist Church.
The polity of the Church in Wales is Episcopal church governance, which is the same as other Anglican churches.
The group was organized on December 16, 1870 when several black ministers, with the full support of their white counterparts in the former Methodist Episcopal Church, South, met to form an organization that would allow them to establish and maintain their own polity, that is, to ordain their own bishops and ministers without the necessity of them being officially endorsed or appointed by the white-dominated body.
The polity of the Church of the Province of West Africa is Episcopal church governance, which is the same as other Anglican churches.
While an Episcopal seminary, it also trains students from other denominations not seeking ordination in the Episcopal Church and has since 2011 had a relationship with the Metropolitan Community Church in which the latter's candidates for ordination may train at the Episcopal Divinity School and receive specific instruction on Metropolitan Community Church polity as part of their degree programs.
In 1871-1881 he taught ecclesiastical polity and canon law in the Protestant Episcopal Theological School at Cambridge, Massachusetts, and at this time he lectured on the conflict of laws at Boston University.
In the early years of the U. S., many new churches did not yet have a permanent pastor or structure, and in response, the Methodist Episcopal Church, which had a polity allowing it to assign clergy without regard to what the individual minister might desire, assigned ministers to rural and frontier " circuits.
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