John Wesley, the founder of the movement, was not prepared to allow unordained preachers to administer the sacraments: " We believe it would not be right for us to administer either Baptism or the Lord's Supper unless we had a commission so to do from those Bishops whom we apprehend to be in a succession from the Apostles.

On the third day, after James had received a report back from the bishops and made final modifications, he announced his decisions to the Puritans and Bishops.

Constantius and his successor had expanded the power of Bishops placing them on the same level as civic elites.

The sole reason Charles I assembled Parliament in 1640 was to ask it to pass finance bills, since the Bishops ' Wars had bankrupted him.

The King believed that Puritans ( or Dissenters ) encouraged by five vociferous members of the House of Commons, John Pym, John Hampden, Denzil Holles, Sir Arthur Haselrig and William Strode along with Viscount Mandeville ( the future Earl of Manchester ) who sat in the House of Lords, had encouraged the Scots to invade England in the recent Bishops ' Wars and that they were intent on turning the London mob against him.

So great was his reputation with the Holy See that he "... was allowed by the Roman Pontiff to appoint Bishops and Abbots from among his brethren in whatever churches or monasteries he desired, of those that had lost their patron ".

This prevented Lovelace, who had done everything to prove himself during the Bishops ’ Wars, from participating in the first phase of the English Civil War.

The royal administration under Henry I had been headed by Roger, the Bishop of Salisbury, supported by Roger's nephews, Alexander and Nigel, the Bishops of Lincoln and Ely respectively, and Roger's son, Roger le Poer, who was the Lord Chancellor.

The Note was thus added by papal authority, consistently with the idea that the consent of the Pope, as head of the College of Bishops was necessary, and that he had the " right to make his consent dependent on an interpretation determined in advance ".

However, Stein was not safe in the Netherlands — the Dutch Bishops ' Conference had a public statement read in all the churches of the country on July 20, 1942, condemning Nazi racism.

By July, the synod, co-ordinated by Cranmer and Foxe, had prepared a draft document, The Institution of a Christian Man, more commonly known as the Bishops ' Book.

At the request of the Special Assembly for the Americas of the Synod of Bishops, he named Our Lady of Guadalupe patron of the Americas on 22 January 1999 ( with the result that her liturgical celebration had, throughout the Americas, the rank of solemnity ), and visited the shrine again on the following day.

The royal administration under Henry I had been headed by Roger, the Bishop of Salisbury, supported by Roger's nephews, Alexander and Nigel, the Bishops of Lincoln and Ely respectively, and Roger's son, Roger le Poer, who was the Lord Chancellor.

By October 1967, the Consilium had produced a complete draft revision of the liturgy, and this revision was presented to the Synod of Bishops that met in Rome in that month.

This was called the Bishops ' War ( 1639 – 1640 ) and it had two major parts: The first Bishops ' War ( 1639 ) ended in a truce.

During the second part of the Bishops ' War, Charles I had run very low on money ( since he was also fighting France and Spain ), so he was forced to call a Parliament to make new taxes.

In October 1967, a meeting of the Synod of Bishops had already given its opinion on a still earlier draft.

Cardinal Law's actions and inactions prompted public scrutiny of all members of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and the steps they had taken in response to past and current allegations of sexual misconduct at the hands of priests.

Shortly beforehand, Bishops Turner of Ely and Ken of Bath and Wells visited the condemned man to prepare him for eternity, but withheld the eucharist as he refused to acknowledge that either his rebellion or his relationship with Lady Wentworth had been sinful.

The Geneva Bible had also motivated the earlier production of the Bishops ' Bible under Elizabeth I, for the same reason, and the later Rheims-Douai edition by the Catholic community.

In the 4th century, after Bishops had been appointed by the Roman Emperor Constantine, they rejected many of the books, including Jubilees, that later were also absent the Masoretic version.

Many Prince Bishops had a summer residence here.

Charles then attempted to seize the port of Kingston-upon-Hull where arms and equipment previously collected for the Bishops ' Wars had been gathered.

Bishops are usually considered slightly better than knights in open positions, such as toward the end of the game when many of the pieces have been captured, whereas knights have an advantage in closed positions.

A seed strain has been produced from this plant called ' Bishops Children ', they retain the dark foliage color but produce a mix of flower colors and flower shapes from single to semi-double flowers in different sizes.

Roundheads appears to have been first used as a term of derision toward the end of 1641, when the debates in Parliament in the Bishops Exclusion Bill were causing riots at Westminster.

Much of the grounds have been leased by golf clubs and the exclusive Bishops Walk housing development was built on Bishops Walk ( a private road ).

The former Bishops ' Palace of the castle is now a training and conference centre, which also manages the keep, which, funded by a Heritage Lottery Fund Grant has been made much more accessible.

This practice has been broken only once when, in 1999, the House of Bishops voted unanimously in public to endorse the efforts of the Archbishop of Armagh, the Diocese of Armagh and the Standing Committee of the General Synod in their attempts to resolve the crisis at the Church of the Ascension at Drumcree near Portadown.

As the Apocrypha of the Great Bible was translated from the Latin Vulgate, the Bishops ' Bible cannot strictly claim to have been entirely translated from the original tongues.

Later judgments of the Bishops ' Bible have not been favorable ; David Daniell, in his important edition of William Tyndale's New Testament, states that the Bishops ' Bible " was, and is, not loved.

Unlike Tyndale's translations and the Geneva Bible, the Bishops ' Bible has rarely been reprinted.

In 1640, with Wentworth having been recalled to attend to the Second Bishops ' War in England, Ormonde was made commander-in-chief of the forces in Ireland.

A publication of the then-National Council of Catholic Bishops explains: " We have been accustomed to speaking of the Latin ( Roman or Western ) Rite or the Eastern Rites to designate these different Churches.

Discussions between the SSPX and the Holy See have been in progress for some years, and in January 2009 the Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops remitted the excommunications which the Congregation had declared to have been incurred by the Society's bishops in 1988.

No such court has ever been created, though proposals have occasionally been made to establish the House of Bishops itself as such a court.

From Apostolic times there have been three Orders of Ministers in the Church of God: Bishops, Priests and Deacons.

Only such Orders of Service as have been authorized by this Church shall be used in Public Worship ; provided, however, that the Diocesan Bishop or Supreme Council of Bishops may authorize Orders of Service for special occasions.

He served in the Bishops ' Wars, and already had a considerable reputation when he was involved in the " Army Plot " ( 1641 ).

He was also involved with the Bishops Waltham Railway Company, set up to link the brickworks ( and the town ) with the main London-Southampton line.

On the other hand he was seen as opposing division of the church at the 2007 meeting of the House of Bishops at Camp Allen in Texas and was reported to be involved in the initial stages of formulating the bishops ' statement from that meeting.