In 381, at the Second Ecumenical Council in Constantinople, a group of mainly Eastern bishops assembled and accepted the Nicene Creed of 381, which was supplemented in regard to the Holy Spirit, as well as some other changes: see Comparison between Creed of 325 and Creed of 381.

Abbesses are, like abbots, major superiors according to canon law, the equivalents of abbots or bishops ( the ordained male members of the church hierarchy who have, by right of their own office, executive jurisdiction over a building, diocesan territory, or a communal or non-communal group of persons — juridical entities under church law ).

All of the bishops were then asked to sign their assent to the Tome, but a group of thirteen Egyptians refused, saying that they would assent to " the traditional faith.

The draft presented to the Council on 8 March drew no serious criticism, but a group of 35 English-speaking bishops, who feared that the opening phrase of the first chapter, " Sancta romana catholica Ecclesia " ( the holy Roman Catholic Church ), might be construed as favouring the Anglican Branch Theory, later succeeded in having an additional adjective inserted, so that the final text read: " Sancta catholica apostolica romana Ecclesia " ( the holy Catholic Apostolic Roman Church ).

Stephen took steps to remove a group of bishops he regarded as a threat to his rule.

The third chapter of the document, which spoke of the bishops as a " college " that, within the Church, succeeds to the place of the " college " or " stable group " of the apostles and is " the subject of supreme and full power over the universal Church, provided we understand this body together with its head, the Roman Pontiff ".

This movement met with strong opposition from the Patriarch Nikephoros, who himself gathered a group of bishops and abbots about him and swore them to uphold the veneration of images.

On 30 June 1688 — the same day the bishops were acquitted — a group of political figures known afterward as the " Immortal Seven ", sent William a formal invitation.

This latter group consists of twenty-six Church of England bishops who are appointed in order of superiority.

Stephen took steps to remove a group of bishops he regarded as a threat to his rule.

This group of so-called Lords Ordainers consisted of eight earls, seven bishops and six barons.

In November 1398, an influential group of magnates and prelates met at Falkland Castle that included Albany, Rothesay, Archibald, earl of Douglas, Albany's son Murdoch, justiciar North of the Forth along with the bishops Walter of St Andrews and Gilbert of Aberdeen — the outcome of this meeting manifested itself at the council meeting held in January 1399 when the king was forced to surrender power to Rothesay for a period of three years.

The election took place on 24 December ; Stephen was present with the papal legate, Alberic of Ostia, and a small group of barons and bishops, but Henry was absent overseeing the ordination of deacons.

Interestingly, this proposal did not arise from the formal debates of the conference but amongst a group of bishops chatting over tea on the lawn of Lambeth Palace.

In Finland, the Elämän Sana (" the Word of life ") group, as the most " mainline " of the different branches of Laestadianism, has been prominent within the hierarchy of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland: Two members have been elected bishops of Oulu, and one has served as Chaplain General ( head chaplain of the Finnish Defence Forces and the equivalent of a Major General ).

John I of Antioch was Patriarch of Antioch ( 429 – 441 ) and led a group of moderate Eastern bishops during the Nestorian controversy.

Epiphanius later reported the group to the bishops, resulting in the expulsion of around 80 people from the city of Alexandria.

However, his newly consecrated bishops became a fragmented group.

Three years later on October 12, 1955, three more bishops were added to this group namely: Bishop U. E.

In the Eastern Christian Churches ( Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Catholic ), the term exarch has two distinct uses: the deputy of a patriarch, or a bishop who holds authority over other bishops without being a patriarch ( thus, a position between that of patriarch and metropolitan ); or, a bishop appointed over a group of the faithful not yet large enough or organized enough to be constituted an eparchy / diocese ( thus the equivalent of a vicar apostolic ).

Buckingham informed them " The Earl of Warwick shall not come to the king's presence and if he comes he shall die ," and told a group of Yorkist bishops that they were not men of peace but men of war and there could be no peace with Warwick.

Two bishops, one Lutheran and the other Anglican, are co-moderators of the contact group, and there are two co-secretaries also drawn from both traditions.

In 2003 two bishops and a few clergy left the FCE, because of their objection to the FCE's increasing openness to engagement with other denominations, and came together as a small group of congregations calling themselves the Evangelical Connexion of the Free Church of England.

The Queen was jealous and felt her pride was hurt and had the bishops of the parliament's clerical group lecture Taube.

He battled with Francis Atterbury, who was the spokesman for the high church group and Tory leader on the subject of passive obedience and non-resistance ( i. e. obedience of divines that would not involve swearing allegiance or changing their eucharistic rites but would also not involve denunciation of the Established Church practices ).

It sounded like a fair enough invitation, Peter Marshall reflected, and Bang-Jensen must have thought so too, because on the thirteenth, he met the group of three on the thirty-sixth floor of the U.N..

Experiments have been conducted to attempt the synthesis of ununennium ( Uue ), which is likely to be the next member of the group, but they have all met with failure .< ref name =" link "> However, ununennium may not be an alkali metal due to relativistic effects, which are predicted to have a large influence on the chemical properties of superheavy elements.

By the end of 1898, Western pilgrims started coming to Akka on pilgrimage to visit ` Abdu ' l-Bahá ; this group of pilgrims, including Phoebe Hearst, was the first time that Bahá ' ís raised up in the West had met ` Abdu ' l-Bahá.

Some years after their arrival, the Nephites met with a similar group, the Mulekites who left the Middle East during the same period.

The members of the group met as mostly freshmen at Tuskegee Institute ( now Tuskegee University ) in 1968, and signed with Motown in November 1972, having first caught the public eye opening for The Jackson 5 while on tour.

In 1987, shortly after it was decided that Charlotte would receive an expansion National Basketball Association franchise ( the Charlotte Hornets ), former NFL player Jerry Richardson met with a group of potential backers to discuss the possibility of bringing an NFL expansion team to the Carolina region.

One group formed a new ecclesia which later met in Suffolk Street, Birmingham.

A group from New York met with a group from Philadelphia on 22 October 1936 in Philadelphia.

On the return trip to Spain, the two brethren met with a group of papal legates who were determined to triumph over the Manichean menace.

In May of that year, a group of Quito notables met to dissolve the union with Gran Colombia, and in August, a constituent assembly drew up a constitution for the State of Ecuador, so named for its geographic proximity to the equator, and placed General Flores in charge of political and military affairs.

The Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community ( the predecessor of the present day European Parliament ) first met on 10 September 1952 and the first Christian Democratic group was unofficially formed the next day, with Maan Sassen as President.

In Atlantic City, New Jersey, a group met for the first time called " The Essentialist's Committee for the Advancement of Education ".

Once, Muhammad met a group of soldiers returning from a defensive battle and addressed them: " Welcome to the people who have concluded the minor jihad ( struggle ).

The concept of furry originated at a science fiction convention in 1980, when a drawing of a character from Steve Gallacci ’ s Albedo Anthropomorphics initiated a discussion of anthropomorphic characters in science fiction novels, which in turn initiated a discussion group that met at science fiction and comics conventions.

* 1968 A group of six Gibraltarian lawyers and businessmen, calling themselves the palomos or ' doves ', advocated a political settlement with Spain in a letter published in the Gibraltar Chronicle, and met with Spanish Foreign Office officials ( a meeting was even held with the Spanish

Lineker met the fans ' group to persuade them to try and raise money to rescue his former club.

After his retirement Gardner moved to Highcliffe near the New Forest on the south coast of England, where he says he met a group of people who had preserved their historic occult practices.

Several days later, he came out to a group of friends at a party held at his home in Belsize Park, where he officially introduced them to his partner, David Sherlock, whom he had met in Ibiza in 1966.

* 1918 – Ukrainian-Soviet War: The Bolshevik Red Army, on its way to besiege Kiev, is met by a small group of military students at the Battle of Kruty.

Douglas and Atchison first met alone with Pierce before the whole group convened.

Around the same time Kid Rock formed his back up band Twisted Brown Trucker, later recruiting Joseph " Joe C ." Calleja whom he met at a 1994 concert as part of the group.

Lewis ' group of four met some men from the Blackfeet nation.

On 20 September 1979, representatives of the United States and Kiribati met on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilberts group of Kiribati, and signed a treaty of friendship between their two nations ( commonly referred to as the Treaty of Tarawa of 1979 ) by which the United States recognized Kiribati's sovereignty over Malden and thirteen other islands in the Line and Phoenix Islands groups.