Bishops may dispense with this rule and ordain men up to one year younger.

In the first century Gentile ( non-Jewish ) inclusion was the significant issue, see Circumcision controversy in early Christianity, while two millennia later Jewish exclusion is the issue ( though Jewish exclusion may have begun as early as the exclusion of Jews from Aelia Capitolina c. 135, see also Jewish Bishops of Jerusalem and Anti-Judaism ).

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.

Bishops of other sui juris churches and papal nuncios are not members of episcopal conferences by law, though the conference itself may invite them in an advisory or voting capacity ( can.

* Bishop's Chapel – in Anglican and Roman Catholic Canon Law, Bishops have the right to have a chapel in their own home, even when travelling ( such personal chapels may be granted only as a favor to other priests )

Bishops may enter through the Beautiful Gates at any time ; priests and deacons may do so only at specific times during the services when the Gates are open ( but during Bright Week they always enter and exit through them ).

Bishops, priests and deacons are allowed to enter the Royal Doors, but only at specific times during the services ; and they alone may stand in front of the Holy Table, or touch it.

Bishops and pastors may consult their councils about practical matters.

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.

All public services shall be conducted in the official language of the Church, or in any other language the Supreme Council of Bishops may prescribe.

These powers are given to the diocesan bishop ( in most cases ) subject to appeal to a diocesan court, or the diocesan court may exercise primary jurisdiction when the bishop asks it to ( for diocesan bishops the provincial metropolitan is given primary jurisdiction, for metropolitans the provincial House of Bishops is given jurisdiction, for the primate it is the national House of Bishops ).

The Council of Bishops shall meet annually at such time and place as the majority of the Council shall determine and also at such other times as may be deemed necessary in the discharging its responsibility as the Executive Branch of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Byzantine rite Bishops may also wear the phelonion when not serving according to hierarchical rubrics.

:* Permission for the married priests to be consecrated as bishops ( Russian Orthodox tradition is that only monastics may be Bishops ).

The term Lord of Parliament may also be used to refer to any member of the House of Lords: in particular, the Standing Orders of the House of Lords state " Bishops to whom a writ of summons has been issued are not Peers but are Lords of Parliament.

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

" 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.

Where, on the other hand, it is not observed as a Holyday of Obligation, it may be transferred by the Conference of Bishops to another day outside Lent.

Synod of Bishops may refer to:

Nominally the town was founded by the Bishops of Meissen, though it may have existed before that point.

The 1969 Instruction of the Secretariat of State indicated that the title of " Monsignor " may be used for Bishops.

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 have succeeded the apostles, not only because they come after them, but also because they have inherited apostolic power.

Furthermore, individual bishops, or the Council of Bishops as a whole, often serve a prophetic role, making statements on important social issues and setting forth a vision for the denomination, though they have no legislative authority of their own.

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.

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.

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.

Certainly, other Bishops were depicted bearing the arms of a knight without comment, such as Archbishop Turpin who bears both a spear and a sword named " Almace " in The Song of Roland or Bishop Adhemar of Le Puy, who also appears to have fought as a knight during the First Crusade, an expedition that Odo also joined.

Bishops, universities and humanists were at one in denunciation of the outrage ; and, as for the attitude of the people, Eck was glad to have escaped from Saxony alive.

* The Imitators ( or Chameleons ), represented by the Bishops, capture any piece by moving as a piece of the type captured would have moved to capture.

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.

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.

Instead he united the Abbacy with the bishopric of Norwich and therefore the Bishops of Norwich have remained abbots of St Benet's to this day.

# The United Methodist Council of Bishops have approved interim agreements for sharing the Eucharist with the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.

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 ).

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.

It did not have the approval of the Apostolic See even though approved by their Dutch Bishops Conference at that time.

Ordinarily, Bishops are to have advanced degrees in sacred scripture, theology, or canon law ( c. 378. 1. 5 ).

Peter never bore the title of " pope ", which came into use three centuries later, but Catholics traditionally recognize him as the first pope, while official declarations of the Church only speak of the popes as holding within the college of the Bishops a role analogous to that held by Peter within the college of the Apostles, of which the college of the Bishops, a distinct entity, is the successor.

Though not formally dedicated to Elizabeth I of England | Queen Elizabeth, the Bishops ' Bible includes a portrait of the queen on its title page.

When the proposed government of universal Christendom by five patriarchal sees ( Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem, known as the pentarchy ), under the auspices of a single universal empire, was formulated in the legislation of Emperor Justinian I ( 527-565 ), especially in his Novella 131, and received formal ecclesiastical sanction at the Council in Trullo ( 692 ), the name " patriarch " became the official one for the Bishops of these sees, and the title " Exarch " remained the proper style of the metropolitans who ruled over the three remaining ( political ) dioceses of Diocletian's division of the Eastern Prefecture, namely the Exarchs of Asia ( at Ephesus ), of Cappadocia and Pontus ( at Caesarea ), and of Thrace ( at Heraclea Sintica ).

Some Bishops or Branch Presidents have been officially given the title of a deputy registrar, and as such are legally able to perform a civil ceremony in the chapel.

The following lists the membership of each incarnation of the Inner Circle and the title they held ; in descending order of rank are Kings and Queens, followed by Bishops and Rooks.

In 1960, Bishops were league runners-up to near-neighbours West Auckland Town, but the league title was again won in ' 67, along with the league cup and the Durham County Challenge Cup being added to the one won in ' 62.

Under the Suffragan Bishops Act 1534, the title Bishop of Ipswich was created in 1536, but it fell into abeyance following the first holder surrendering the office in 1538.

The name in the Arabic is Kommos, which is in turn a derivation of the Greek Ighoumenos and this honorary title is granted to both married priests and hieromonks without distinction and is not used in the capacity of an Abbot, although the monasteries ' abbots used to be Hegumen up until the beginning of the 20th century, but by the mid century, the Church of Alexandria started to appoint Bishops in the capacity of Abbots.

In 1501 James IV founded a new Chapel Royal in Stirling Castle, but from 1504 onwards the deanery was held by successive Bishops of Galloway with the title of Bishop of the Chapel Royal and authority over all the royal palaces within Scotland.

Before the motu proprio Pontificalis Domus of 28 March 1968, Honorary Prelates were called Domestic Prelates ( in Latin, Antistites Urbani ), a title that then also went with certain offices such as that of Archbishop or Bishop Assistant at the Throne or membership of the Roman Prelature, and that was also maintained by Archbishops, Bishops and Apostolic Protonotaries who had been awarded it before their appointment to those positions.

The title page quotes from Psalm 31 ; intriguingly, it is closest to the English of the Bishops ' Bible ( 1568 ): " I have hated all those that holde of superstitious vanities ".

The title, which takes its name after the town of Bedford, was created under the Suffragan Bishops Act 1534.

However, the exact title " Presiding Bishop " did not come into usage until shortly after Partridge's death, when subordinate Bishops began to be appointed his successors during the Nauvoo era.

The title remained simply Bishop until the Church grew within and all over the Egyptian Province, and many Bishops were consecrated for the newly founded parishes all over the towns and cities.

This title was first assumed by the Patriarchs of Alexandria, long before it was assumed by the Bishops of Rome.