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Bishops and country
In May 1982, the Conference of Catholic Bishops accused Ríos Montt of responsibility for growing militarization of the country and for continuing military massacres of civilians.
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.
In 1638, events in his native country again compelled him to return to Scotland, where he was appointed " lord general in command " of the Covenanters army by the Scottish administration, and as such participated in the Bishops Wars.
The Bishops of Glasgow had a country seat in Partick.
" Mignet, however, quotes the marquis de Ferrières, " Priests, and especially bishops employed all the resources of fanaticism to excite the people, in town and country, against the civil constitution of the clergy ", and points out that Bishops ordered the priests no longer to perform divine service in the same church with the constitutional priests.
In 1638, after King Charles I had attempted to impose an Anglican-oriented prayer book upon the reluctant Scots, resistance spread throughout the country, eventually leading to the Bishops ' Wars.
Adjacent to the church, is a palace that had been the country home of the Bishops of London for 800 years.
In his letter of 27 May 2007 to the Catholics in the People's Republic of China, Pope Benedict XVI acknowledged their faithfulness to Christ and the Church, " sometimes at the price of grave sufferings ", but also expressed concern at some aspects of ecclesial life in the country, in particular the division caused by " the significant part played by entities that have been imposed as the principal determinants of the life of the Catholic community ", so that " persons who are not ordained, and sometimes not even baptized, control and take decisions concerning important ecclesial questions, including the appointment of Bishops, in the name of various State agencies ", with a consequent " demeaning of the Petrine and episcopal ministries ".
He allowed the Catholic Bishops, who were in exile, to return to the country.
The U. S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has not issued an official position on this relatively new phenomenon in the country.
It was the country home of the Bishops of London from at least 11th century until 1975, when it was vacated.
The estate was owned by the Bishops of London for over 1300 years and the Palace was their country home from at least the 11th century, and their main residence from the 18th century until 1975.
An officially sanctioned image of Our Lady of China was blessed, granted and promulgated by Pope Pius XI in 1928, in response to the requests made by the 1924 Shanghai Synod of Bishops in China, the first national conference of bishops in the country.
Liu Bainian, chairman of the CPA and the Bishops Conference of the Catholic Church in China, stated in a 2011 interview that the church needed individuals who " love the country and love religion: politically, they should respect the Constitution, respect the law, and fervently love the socialist motherland .’’
Category: Bishops by country
Liu Bainian, chairman of the CPA and the Bishops Conference of the Catholic Church in China, stated in a 2011 interview that the church needed individuals who " love the country and love religion: politically, they should respect the Constitution, respect the law, and fervently love the socialist motherland .’’
The remains of the bishop of Glasgow's country palace have been revealed by the West of Scotland Archaeology Service next to Bishops Loch ( an SSI ) at Lochwood.

Bishops and region
The counts of Dillingen ruled from the 10th to the 13th century, then ( 1258 ) the territory was turned over to the Prince Bishops of Augsburg, who gained several villages for their clerical state, hence subdividing the region into several patches, which were dissolved in the early 19th century.
A year later, the Bishops of the 4th pastoral region of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops ( NCCB ) elected him president for the period of 1972-77.
A mediaeval fort with embellishments dating from the 15th and 17th century, the entire construction a classified historical monument, the Bishops ' palace of Bourg-Saint-Andéol with inside the museum René Margotton, front of Rhône, is one of the largest and most complex in the Vivarais region.
So was the case among other Provinces in the Roman Empire East & West ( Rome, Antioch, Jerusalem, Ephesus, Caesarea, Edessa, Seleucia and many others major Metropolitanates ), as the Bishops of these Major Cities, and those who were presiding over the Churches, which were first established within the region, became to be known as Archbishops.

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

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