# 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

The Bishops of Warmia were usually Germans or Poles, although Enea Silvio Piccolomini, the later Pope Pius II, was an Italian bishop of the diocese.

Bishops usually gain in relative strength towards the endgame as more pieces are captured and more open lines become available for them to operate.

Bishops are usually drawn from the ranks of the archimandrites, and are required to be celibate ; however, a non-monastic priest may be ordained to the episcopate if he no longer lives with his wife ( following Canon XII of the Quinisext Council ) In contemporary usage such a non-monastic priest is usually tonsured to the monastic state, and then elevated to archimandrite, at some point prior to his consecration to the episcopacy.

While the words " synod " and " council " usually refer to a transitory meeting, the term " Synod of Bishops " or " Synod of the Bishops ", is also applied to a permanent body established in 1965 as an advisory body of the Pope.

It usually meets twice per year, but in December 2006 a rare joint meeting between the Metropolitan Council and the Holy Synod of Bishops was held.

Bishops who assist diocesan bishops are usually called auxiliary bishops.

Durham Castle was donated to the new university and Auckland Castle, usually the preferred residence by successive Bishops, became the Bishop of Durham's official residence in 1832.

Bishops are usually the Visitors to their own cathedrals.

Bishops are elected from among those clergy who have chosen, usually by taking monastic vows, to remain celibate, or from widowed clergy.

* Coptic Orthodox hierarchs ( Patriarch, Metropolitans and Bishops ) wear the omophor, usually folded, due to its large width.

The same instruction indicated that, in the case of Bishops, " Reverendissimus " ( usually translated in this case as " Most Reverend ", rather than " Very Reverend "), may be added to the word " Monsignor ", as also in the case of prelates without episcopal rank who head offices of the Roman Curia, judges of the Rota, the Promotor General of Justice and the Defender of the Bond of the Apostolic Signatura, the Apostolic Protonotaries " de numero ", and the four Clerics of the Camera.

Bishops are elected by Provincial Synods usually through ecclesiastical ballot without nomination.

Bishops ' counselors are usually high priests, but this is not required and counselors in a student ward are not ordinarily ordained high priests to fill this position.

Bishops of all ranks when not vested will usually wear the Panagia alone over their riassa ( cassock ); this is often the detail that, to the casual observer, distinguishes a bishop from a priest or a monk.

However, the official attendances can be considered somewhat dubious in this era as many fans would get in by climbing over the fence from Bishops Park into the Putney End.

Two months later, the controversial " Winnipeg Statement " issued by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops stated that those who cannot accept the teaching should not be considered shut off from the Catholic Church, and that individuals can in good conscience use contraception as long as they have first made an honest attempt to accept the difficult directives of the encyclical.

When the Bishop of Constantinople was exiled from his See, he wrote three letters to those he considered the most important Bishops of the West seeking to obtain their support with the Emperors: he wrote one letter to the Bishop of Rome, the second to the Bishop of Milan and the third to the Bishop of Aquileia, precisely, Chromatius ( Ep.

Bishops may have the title of archbishop, metropolitan, and patriarch, all of which are considered honorifics.

This issue caused an ongoing dispute in the Coptic Orthodox Church since 1928, and although the Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church considered in the 1960s the General Bishops to be secretaries to the Pope in the degree of a Bishop, Pope Shenouda III was sometimes considered to be the fourth Bishop to become a Pope after Popes John XIX ( 1928 – 1942 ), Macarius III ( 1942 – 1944 ) and Joseph II ( 1946 – 1956 ).

(" An Open Letter To All the Bishops of Denmark " is considered by the Foundation for Toward the Light to be genuine.

An award sponsored by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops called the ' Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Award For Social Justice and Anti-Poverty ' is awarded to Catholic youths who are considered to have provided outstanding advocacy in this area.

Collegiality also refers to the doctrine held in the Roman Catholic Church that the bishops of the world, collectively considered ( the College of Bishops ) share the responsibility for the governance and pastoral care of the Church with the Pope.

It turned out that under Columbia's concordat with the Holy See, members of the clergy could only be investigated by ecclesiastical courts which are ruled by canon law, and that the Bishops were therefore immune from investigation by the civil authorities on what many in Columbia considered to be a serious felony.

" The third group is that of the " very small number ... who have been ordained without the Pontifical mandate and who have not asked for, or have not yet obtained, the necessary legitimation "; these, the Pope said, " are to be considered illegitimate, but validly ordained ", and " the faithful, taking this into account, where the eucharistic celebration and the other sacraments are concerned, must, within the limits of the possible, seek Bishops and priests who are in communion with the Pope: nevertheless, where this cannot be achieved without grave inconvenience, they may, for the sake of their spiritual good, turn also to those who are not in communion with the Pope.

In September 2007, the Cardinal was named by Pope Benedict XVI as a member of the Congregation for Bishops, the curia department that puts forward to the Pope the names of those considered to be appropriate choices to be appointed as bishops.

Edward Partridge is considered the " First Presiding Bishop " of the Church, however neither he nor his contemporaries saw him as a superior to other Bishops of the Church in that time period.

However, the Church Commissioners turned down a number of buildings that the executive committee considered worthy of preservation, including Old St Matthew's Church, Lightcliffe, and St Peter's Church, Wickham Bishops.

The bishops, who possess the fullness of the priesthood, are as a body ( the College of Bishops ) considered the successors of the Apostles and are " constituted Pastors in the Church, to be the teachers of doctrine, the priests of sacred worship and the ministers of governance " and " represent the Church.

In Catholic theology, the bishop who is the successor of Saint Peter in the episcopal see of Rome is viewed as the head of the College of Bishops, as Saint Peter was the chief of the Apostles ; and communion with him is considered essential for the existence of the College of Bishops.

He thus earned the nickname " Father of Western Methodism ", and was considered one of the greatest Bishops of the M. E.

In light of Obama's strong pro-choice policies, Glendon considered Notre Dame's decision to be in violation of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops ' 2004 pronouncement that Catholic institutions should not give " awards, honors, or platforms " to " those who act in defiance of fundamental moral principles.

The new official translation of the entire Order of Mass is available on the website of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, which also provides a comparison between the new text of the people's parts and that hitherto in use in the United States ( where the version of the Nicene Creed is slightly different from that in other English-speaking countries ).

In response, in 1924, the Synod of Bishops of the Church of Greece voted to accept an altered form of the Gregorian calendar that both maintained the traditional Julian calendar Paschalion for calculating the date of Pascha and all of the moveable feasts dependent on it, but adopted a system of dates which will agree with the Gregorian Calendar (" New Calendar ") dates until 2800, when the two will start very slowly to diverge, due to slightly different methods of calculating leap years.

I wish it to sit again, only for the purpose of synodically devising a better synod than itself ; one, more like the synods of the early church – in one house, with less of power to the Presbyters – but more means of counsel and aid from them to the Bishops than their separate house gives.

Bishops, Priests, and Deacons are not commanded by God ’ s law to marry to abstain from marriage, therefore they are permitted to marry at their own discretion, as they shall judge the same to serve better to godliness.

While Archbishop of Cincinnati, Bernardin was named to the Sacred Congregation of Bishops, elected to the permanent council of the Synod of Bishops, served as president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, worked to improve relations between Catholics and Jews, strove for better understanding between the Catholic Church and Protestant denominations, and made pastoral visits to both Poland and Hungary.

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.

During a private audience, Pope John Paul is reported to have reproved the president of the Italian Bishops ' Conference, Cardinal Ballestrero of Turin, for his lack of enthusiasm for CL: " When you come to know them better ", the cardinal replied, " you won't like them that much either.