A feature unique to Carthusian liturgical practice is that the bishop bestows on Carthusian nuns, in the ceremony of their profession, a stole and a maniple.

The presentation of this chrism which has received the laying on of hands, together with an antimension is the manner in which a bishop bestows faculties upon a priest under his omophorion ( i. e., under his authority ).

Hilarius convoked a synod in 462 that confirmed Hermes as titular bishop, withholding his faculties as metropolitan ( Wace ).

The relics of saints ( traditionally, always those of a martyr ) are also sewn into the antimension which is given to a priest by his bishop as a means of bestowing faculties upon him ( i. e., granting him permission to celebrate the Sacred Mysteries ).

If the assisting bishop has special faculties ( typically the right to succeed the diocesan bishop ) he would be called a coadjutor bishop.

Today, the principal business of consistory courts is now the dispensing of faculties dealing with churchyards and church property, although they retain the power to hear the trial of clergy ( below the rank of bishop ) accused of immoral acts or misconduct ( under the Clergy Discipline Act 1892 ).

Although Küng is not officially allowed to teach Catholic theology, neither his bishop nor the Holy See have revoked his priestly faculties.

When a vicariate or a diocese extended over a very large territory in which the Catholic population was unequally distributed, the Holy See sometimes placed a portion of the territory in charge of a prefect apostolic ; in which case the faculties of the prefect were more limited, and in the exercise of his office he was supervised by the vicar apostolic or the diocesan bishop.

" The most common use of the term is in the context of ' priestly faculties ', which is the permission given to a priest by his diocesan bishop or religious superior, legally permitting him to perform the Sacraments.

In the Eastern Orthodox Church a bishop formally grants priestly faculties by giving a priest chrism and an antimension.

Once chosen, he must request blessing: the blessing of an abbot is celebrated by the bishop in whose diocese the monastery is or, with his permission, another abbot or bishop.

Like an abbot, after being confirmed in her office by the Holy See, an abbess is solemnly admitted to her office by a formal blessing, conferred by the bishop in whose territory the monastery is located, or by an abbot or another bishop with appropriate permission.

Under modern canon law, a man who is appointed a cardinal must accept ordination as a bishop, unless he already is one, or seek special permission from the pope to decline such ordination.

Although ELCA agreed with the Episcopal Church to limit ordination to the bishop " ordinarily ", ELCA pastor-ordinators are given permission to perform the rites in " extraordinary " circumstance.

A bishop with jurisdiction — usually the bishop of the place where the candidate died or is buried, although another ordinary can be given this authority — gives permission to open an investigation into the virtues of the individual, responding to a petition by members of the faithful, either actually or pro forma.

Formally given to bishop Philip of Senj, the permission to use the Glagolitic liturgy ( the Roman Rite conducted in Slavic language instead of Latin, not the Byzantine rite ), actually extended to all Croatian lands, mostly along the Adriatic coast.

His brief imprisonment at Marignane in late 1561 came about purely because he had published his 1562 almanac without the prior permission of a bishop, contrary to a recent royal decree.

In 1913, Bishop Mathew claimed to have secured permission from the Continental Old Catholic bishops for his consecration of Rudolph Edward de Landen Berghes as a bishop to work among the Scots.

With the permission of the pope he resigned as bishop of Novara in favor of his brother Giulio in 1656 and went to Rome.

Catholic doctrine holds that any bishop can validly ordain any baptised man to the priesthood or to the episcopacy, provided that he has the correct intention and uses a doctrinally acceptable rite of ordination, whether or not he has official permission of any sort to perform the ordination, and indeed whether or not he and the ordinand are Catholics.

In addition the council decreed that to hear confessions monks must have permission of their ordinary, or bishop, as well as their superior.

No bishop could leave his diocese without a written permission from his metropolitan, with a right of appeal to the Bishop of Arles.

In the Eastern tradition, chrismation shows the unity of the church through the bishop in the continuation of the Apostolic faith, because the Chrism used is presented to the priest by the bishop and ( together with the antimension ) is the symbol of the priest's permission from the bishop to perform the sacraments ( see faculty ).

When Richard of Staughton became prior, he obtained permission from the bishop to form a boys ' school ; however it is thought he died of the Black Death before the project could be implemented.

After a few meetings with the child, now completely inhabited by a diabolical personality, he turns to the local bishop for permission to perform an exorcism on the child.

Edward appointed Leofric as Bishop of Cornwall and Bishop of Crediton in 1046, but because Crediton was a small town, the new bishop secured papal permission to move the episcopal seat to Exeter in 1050.

Regular distribution of Communion under both kinds requires the permission of the bishop, but bishops in some countries have given blanket permission for the administration of Communion in this way.

Although Roman Catholics and Dissenters had been permitted to enter as early as 1793, certain restrictions on their membership of the college remained until 1873 ( professorships, fellowships and scholarships were reserved for Protestants ), and the Catholic Church in Ireland forbade its adherents, without permission from their bishop, from attending until 1970.

; Honorary Assistant bishop, Assisting Bishop, or Bishop Emeritus: These titles are usually applied to retired bishops who are given a general licence to minister as episcopal pastors under a diocesan's oversight.

The bishop is the ordinary minister of the sacrament of confirmation in the Latin Rite Catholic Church, and in the Anglican and Old Catholic communion only a bishop may administer this sacrament.

The consecrated bishop is the only minister of Holy Orders.

As with most Mormon priesthood, the bishop is a part-time lay minister and earns a living through other employment ; in all cases, he is a married man.

In the Church of Scotland, which has a Presbyterian church structure, the word " bishop " refers to an ordained person, usually a normal parish minister, who has temporary oversight of a trainee minister.

The influence of the grateful new queen being actively exerted on Alberoni's behalf — the princesse des Ursins having been chased out — within not much more than a year Alberoni was made a duke and grandee of Spain, a member of the king's council, appointed bishop of Málaga, and in 1715 prime minister, and was made cardinal by Pope Clement XI, under pressure from the court of Spain, in July 1717.

* 1792 – August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German theologian, minister, and bishop ( b. 1704 )

I, Ulfila, bishop and confessor, have always so believed, and in this, the one true faith, I make the journey to my Lord ; I believe in one God the Father, the only unbegotten and invisible, and in his only-begotten son, our Lord and God, the designer and maker of all creation, having none other like him ( so that one alone among all beings is God the Father, who is also the God of our God ); and in one Holy Spirit, the illuminating and sanctifying power, as Christ said after his resurrection to his apostles: " And behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you ; but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be clothed with power from on high " ( Luke 24: 49 ) and again " But ye shall receive power, when the Holy Ghost is come upon you " ( Acts 1: 8 ); being neither God ( the Father ) nor our God ( Christ ), but the minister of Christ ... subject and obedient in all things to the Son ; and the Son, subject and obedient in all things to God who is his Father ... ( whom ) he ordained in the Holy Spirit through his Christ.

In the Kingdom of Naples difficulties necessitating certain concessions in respect of feudal homage were raised by the liberal minister Tanucci, and more serious disagreements arose with Leopold II ( 1790 – 92 ), later emperor, and Scipione de ' Ricci, bishop of Pistoia and Prato, upon the questions of reform in Tuscany ; but Pius VI did not think fit to condemn the decrees of the synod of Pistoia ( 1786 ) till nearly eight years had elapsed.

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If the danger of death is present or if, in the judgement of the diocesan bishop or conference of bishops, some other grave necessity urges it, Catholic ministers administer these same sacraments licitly also to other Christians not having full communion with the Catholic Church, who cannot approach a minister of their own community and who seek such on their own accord, provided that they manifest Catholic faith in respect to these sacraments and are properly disposed.

The Catholic position, according to Augustine, was ex opere operato — from the work having been worked ; in other words, that the validity of the sacrament depends upon the holiness of God, the minister being a mere instrument of God's work, so that any priest or bishop, even one in a state of mortal sin, who speaks the formula of the sacrament with valid matter and the intent of causing the sacrament to occur acts validly.

Titles in the Bajoran religion include a " Prylar " ( roughly equivalent to a Christian monk ), " Ranjen " ( a rank falling between Prylars and the next rank, and responsible for a variety of tasks ), " Mylar " ( priest or minister, mentioned in " Ties of Blood and Water "), " Vedek " ( cardinal, bishop ) and " Kai " ( equivalent to the pope in Roman Catholic theology or Patriarch in the Eastern Orthodox theology ).

In the Latin-Rite ( i. e., Western ) Catholic Church, the sacrament is customarily conferred only on persons old enough to understand it, and the ordinary minister of confirmation is a bishop.

In Eastern Catholic Churches, the usual minister of this sacrament is the parish priest, using olive oil consecrated by a bishop ( i. e., chrism ), and administering the sacrament immediately after baptism.

First, he accused his wife Richardis of having an affair with his chief minister and archchancellor, Liutward, bishop of Vercelli.

Following the retirement of Bishop David Thomas as Provincial Assistant Bishop in 2008, the Bench of Bishops decided that it would not continue to appoint a specific bishop to minister to those who cannot in conscience accept the ordination of women as priests.

In the Latin-Rite ( i. e., Western ) Catholic Church, the sacrament is customarily conferred only on persons old enough to understand it, and the ordinary minister of Confirmation is a bishop.

Furthermore, in 1064 Emir Al-Muqtadir of Zaragoza sent Paternus, the Mozarabic bishop of Tortosa, as an envoy to king Ferdinand I of León in Santiago de Compostela, while the Christian Abu Umar ibn Gundislavus, a Saqaliba ( a Slav ), served the same taifa ruler as the Wazir ( Vizier, or the equivalent to prime minister ).

Those who do personally share Catholic belief in the Eucharist ( as the body and blood of the risen Christ, accompanied by his soul and divinity, under the appearances of bread and wine ) are permitted to receive the sacrament when there is danger of death or, in the judgement of the diocesan bishop or of the episcopal conference, some other grave necessity urges it and on condition that " the person be unable to have recourse for the sacrament to a minister of his or her own Church or ecclesial Community, ask for the sacrament of his or her own initiative, manifest Catholic faith in the sacrament and be properly disposed ".

An ordained minister of the organization since 1957, Bishop McKnight was appointed assistant bishop in 1970.

The prime minister chooses from amongst a set of nominees proposed by the Crown Nominations Commission ; the sovereign then instructs the college of canons to elect the nominated individual as a bishop or archbishop.