The 19th Canon of 1571 asserted the authority of the Councils in this manner: " let preachers take care that they never teach anything ... except what is agreeable to the doctrine of the Old and New Testament, and what the Catholic Fathers and ancient Bishops have collected from the same doctrine.

The ordinary magisterium includes the potentially fallible teachings of the pope and ecumenical Councils ( i. e., not given ex cathedra ) and, more commonly, of individual Bishops or groups of Bishops as taken separately from the whole College.

Meanwhile, the Councils of Bishops in the Roman Empire following Constantine followed the Old Testament canon that had been established by the Sanhedrin at Yavne in c. 80, paring the total down to only 66 books.

The ordinary magisterium includes the potentially fallible teachings of the pope and ecumenical Councils ( i. e., not given ex cathedra ) and, more commonly, of individual Bishops or groups of Bishops as taken separately from the whole College.

Councils correspond to state or national boundaries and each council is headed by a diocesan bishop, who is appointed by the Board of Bishops.

Finn currently serves on the Administrative and the Priorities and Plans Committees for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

:" It is anticipated that the full digitisation and indexing programme will include: Parish baptisms, marriages and burials ; Bishops ' transcripts ; Parish Poor Law records ; Boards of Guardians records ; Diocesan marriage bonds and allegations ; Non-conformist baptisms, marriages and burials ; School admission and discharge registers ; Electoral registers, overseers returns and poll books ; Land Tax records ; Wills ; City of London Freedoms ; Middlesex Sessions-Transportation Contracts ; Consistory Court of London Matrimonial and Testamentary Papers.

Today, the clergy includes men and women who are ordained by Bishops as Elders and Deacons and are appointed to various ministries.

In addition to the General Board, there is a Board of Bishops, a National Trustee Board, Judiciary Board, Council of Pastors and Elders, and various departments and auxiliaries united collectively under an umbrella organization known as Auxiliaries in Ministry ( AIM ).

Bishops ' Council, General Board of Bishops, Board of Elders ( district and general church levels ), District Board of Presbytery, District Presidents, District Elders, District & General Departments of Evangelism & Extension, Missions, Ushers, Music, YPHA ( Young Peoples ' Holy Association ), BCS ( Bible Church School ), Publications, and the Holiness Union.

Bishops may also rely on Elders, an elected position for Pastors who advise a small group of congregations on behalf of the corresponding district.

Local churches are not self-governed and pastors respond to two higher authorities described above: ( 1 ) Elders, sector leaders with advisory roles, and ( 2 ) District Bishops.

* Conference of Bishops of the Anglican Communion, Encyclical Letter, etc.

In The Nation, reviewer Katha Pollitt said, " Gibson has violated just about every precept of the ( United States Conference of Catholic Bishops ) conference's own 1988 " Criteria " for the portrayal of Jews in dramatizations of the Passion ( no bloodthirsty Jews, no rabble, no use of Scripture that reinforces negative stereotypes of Jews, etc.

Witness the Lord H. Archbishop of Canterbury, J Norwich and W. London Bishops etc.

Bishops have, in virtue of their God-given powers, full authority within their dioceses in all matters of dispensation, patronage and the like ; papal bulls, briefs, etc., and the decrees of the Roman Congregations are only of binding force in each diocese when sanctioned by the bishop ; nunciatures, as hitherto conceived, are to cease ; the oath of allegiance to the pope demanded of bishops since Gregory VII's time is to be altered so as to bring it into conformity with episcopal rights ; annates and the fees payable for the pallium and confirmation are to be lowered and, in the event of the palhum or confirmation being refused, German archbishops and bishops are to be free to exercise their office under the protection of the emperor ; with the Church tribunals of first and second instance ( episcopal and metropolitan ) the nuncios at Cologne are not to interfere, and, though appeal to Rome is allowed under certain national safe-guards, the opinion is expressed that it would be better to set up in each archdiocese a final court of appeal representing the provincial synod ; finally the emperor is prayed to use his influence with the pope to secure the assembly of a national council in order to remove the grievances left unredressed by the council of Trent.

This land, as it gradually accumulated, was seldom sold as it cost nothing to keep but could be rented out to gain additional income for the Catholic Church to pay its priests, Friars, Bishops etc.

Within the Latin Rite of Roman Catholicism, it was formerly the custom to kneel on the left knee only ( genuflect ) for persons of distinction ( such as Kings, the Pope, Bishops, etc.

The Southern African Catholic Bishops ' Conference ( SACBC ) is an episcopal conference consisting of all the bishops of the Roman Catholic Church in South Africa, Botswana, and Swaziland, and their equivalents under canon law ( apostolic vicars, apostolic administrators, etc .).

Bishops of Methodism, including those of the various branches of Methodism ( United Methodist and its predecessor denominations, African Methodist Episcopal, African Methodist Episcopal Zion, Free Methodist, etc.

All of them were nominated Bishops in partibus infidelium (" In areas of the Infidels ", i. e. Heliopolis, Beirut, Metellopolis etc ...), receiving long-disappeared bishopric titles from areas that had been lost, in order not to compromise contemporary bishopric titles and avoid conflicts with the bishopries established through the padroado system.

Bishops ( as well as other members of the priesthood ) can trace their line of authority back to Joseph Smith, Jr., who, according to church doctrine, was ordained to lead the Church in modern times by the ancient apostles Peter, James, and John, who were ordained to lead the Church by Jesus Christ.

Lloyd George was instrumental in introducing the Welsh Church Act which disestablished, i. e., secularized, Wales though on the outbreak of War, postponed until 1920, removing the opportunity of the six Welsh Bishops in the new Church in Wales to apply ex officio to sit in the House of Lords and removing ( disendowing ) certain pre-1662 property rights.

* Fissel, M. C., The Bishops ' War: Charles I's Campaigns against Scotland, 1638-1640, 1994.

The term " Elder " is based on the same Scriptures that are used to identify " Bishops " and " Overseers " in other Christian circles., and some claim that the system of recognition of elders by the assembly means that the Plymouth Brethren as a movement cannot claim full adherence to the doctrine of the priesthood of all believers.

The first mention of the town is in 673 A. D., the first Synod of all the Bishops in England was held in Hertford.

Newbury Leisure Ltd., the operator of the Lakeside Bowling Alley, decided to close its Bishops Stortford site in November 2010 to save the other 9 sites they have in the UK.

The Archbishops and Bishops swear their fealty, saying " I, N., Archbishop of N., will be faithful and true, and faith and truth will bear unto you, our Sovereign Lord, King of this Realm and Defender of the Faith, and unto your heirs and successors according to law.

He received his episcopal consecration on the following 6 June from Bishop Flaget, with Bishops Henry Conwell and John Baptist Mary David, P. S. S., serving as co-consecrators, in Bardstown.

He received his episcopal consecration on the following April 26 from Archbishop Purcell, with Bishops ( later Saint ) John Neumann, C. SS. R., and Richard Vincent Whelan serving as co-consecrators.

Founded in 1966 as the joint National Conference of Catholic Bishops ( NCCB ) and United States Catholic Conference, it is composed of all active and retired members of the Catholic hierarchy ( i. e., diocesan, coadjutor, and auxiliary bishops and the ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter ) in the United States and the Territory of the U. S. Virgin Islands.

Eusebio Elizondo, M. Sp. S., Auxiliary Bishop of Seattle, and through the Bishops ' Secretariat for the Laity in Washington, D. C.

On Saturday, September 22, 2012, Sister Sara Butler, M. S. B. T., a Professor here and a member of the International Theological Commission, was chosen to be one of the papally-appointed Experts at the upcoming October 2012 13th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the New Evangelization.

He received his episcopal consecration on the following 13 May from Archbishop Girolamo Prigione, with Bishops Costantino Luna Pianegonda, O. F. M., and José Pellecer Samayoa serving as co-consecrators, in the metropolitan cathedral of Santiago.

Amir Jaje O. P., secretary of the Episcopal Commission for Inter-religious Dialogue of the Assembly of Catholic Bishops of Iraq ;

Cardinal Scola is assisted by a Vicar General, Auxiliary Bishop Mario Delpini, V. G., and two other Auxiliary Bishops, Erminio De Scalzi and Luigi Stucchi.

Cap., with Bishops Joseph Fiorenza and Javier Echevarría Rodríguez serving as co-consecrators.

Jose S. Palma, D. D., S. Th. D-current Archbishop of Cebu and President of the Catholic Bishops ' Conference of the Philippines.

He was the second son of John Ernle, Esq., of Burton Priory, Bishops Cannings, Wilts., who died in 1571 ) of the same Wiltshire family which originated with the mediæval lords of the manor of Earnley on the Sussex coast.

# One bishop succeeding another in the same see meant that there was a continuity of teaching: " while the Church as a whole is the vessel into which the truth is poured, the Bishops are an important organ is carrying out this task ".

Bishops in all of these communions are ordained by other bishops through the laying on of hands.

In the polity of the Church of God ( Cleveland, Tennessee ), the international leader is the Presiding Bishop, and the members of the Executive Committee are Executive Bishops.

Leaders of individual states and regions are Administrative Bishops, who have jurisdiction over local churches in their respective states and are vested with appointment authority for local pastorates.

Bishops with diocesan responsibilities, however, are created cardinal priests.

* 10 Metropolises, out of which 7 Metropolises are in Egypt, 1 Metropolis in the Near East and 2 Metropolises are in Europe ; served by 4 Metropolitan Archbishops and 4 Metropolitan Bishops, while 2 Metropolis remain vacant ; out of the 8 Hierarchs, 1 Metropolitan Archbishop is in the Near East, 2 in Metropolitan Archbishops are in Egypt and 1 Metropolitan Archbishop is in The United Kingdom, while all 4 Metropolitan Bishops are in Egypt.

* 54 Dioceses with 37 Diocesan Bishops are in Egypt, 7 Diocesan Bishops are in Europe, 2 Diocesan Bishops are in North America, 2 Diocesan Bishops are in South America, 2 Diocesan Bishops are in Sudan and 2 Diocesan Bishops are in Australia, while 2 Diocese still remain vacant in Egypt