However, Loudoun accompanied the army when it invaded England during the Second Bishops ' War and once again played a leading role in the treaty negotiations at Ripon and London.

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 ".

at this time, and for many centuries, East Meon belonged to successive Bishops of Winchester, and the Court House was its administrative centre and home to a number of monks who played host to the Bishop when he visited East Meon.

Bishops from Nin played a great role in the country's religious, a cultural and a political sense.

486 Greek Cypriots were executed on 9 July 1821, accused of conspiring with the rebelling Greeks, including four Bishops and numerous prominent citizens — all beheaded in the central square of Nicosia, while Archbishop Kyprianos was hanged.

They included four Bishops, many clergymen and prominent citizens, who were beheaded in the central square of Nicosia, while Archbishop Kyprianos was hanged.

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.

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.

* Council of Bishops — When taken into consideration along with the various general agencies of the church, takes on a role similar to an executive branch.

They all recognize the central role of the Bishop of Rome within the College of Bishops and his infallibility when speaking ex cathedra.

The House of Bishops was formed in 1789 to win the support of those who wanted a greater role for bishops.

From 1985 to 1990, in addition to his role of President of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, Rigali held a number of positions within the Roman Curia, serving in the Secretariat of State, Council for the Public Affairs of the Church, Congregation for Bishops, and Pontifical Council for the Laity.

It is also customary for the Archbishop of Westminster to be elected President of the Catholic Bishops ' Conference of England and Wales, but this is the only formal role of leadership he has over the other English bishops.

The qualifications, role and function of the postulator are spelled out in the Norms to be Observed in Inquiries made by Bishops in the Causes of Saints effective since February 7, 1983.

In his November 6, 2005 Angelus address Benedict XVI emphasized the role of the Holy Spirit in Lectio divina: In his annual Lenten addresses to the priests of the Diocese of Rome, Pope Benedict-mainly after the 2008 Synod of Bishops on the Bible-emphasized Lectio Divina's importance, as in 2012, when he used Ephesians 4: 1-16 on a speech about certain problems facing the Church.

Pope John Paul II summarized the role of the itinerant catechists in December 1985 :" They contribute by forming the first neocatechumenal communities of a parish, and are supposed to maintain regular contact with the Bishops of the diocese in which they work ; the itinerant teams preserve a constant link with the responsibles of the Neocatechumenal Way, visiting periodically the communities they catechized and taking care of the development of the Neocatechumenal Way in the territory assigned to them, being fully faithful to the charism given to the initiators and obedient to the local Ordinary.

The American Bishops assembled at the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore urged the Catholic people to read the Holy Bible.

The Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria is headed by the Patriarch of Alexandria and the members are the Metropolitan Archbishops, Metropolitan Bishops, Diocesan Bishops, Patriarchal Exarchs, Missionary Bishops, Auxiliary Bishops, Suffragan Bishops, Assistant Bishops, Chorbishops and the Patriarchal Vicars for the Church of Alexandria.

In the 12th century, there occurred the Investiture Controversy where the Holy Roman Emperor and the Pope fought over who could appoint Bishops.

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 ".

The Synod of Bishops is suspended when the Holy See is vacant.

A year later, in 1530, the continued encroachments on the Church moved Fisher, as Bishop of Rochester, along with the Bishops of Bath and Ely, to appeal to the Holy See.

The Holy See later confirmed him and thereafter Kather represented Ermland diocese in the Fulda Conference of Bishops until his death.

This was designed and manufactured by Hardman of Birmingham ( a firm employed and partly run by A. W. N. Pugin ) and has representations of the Canonized Bishops and Abbots of the Archdiocese of Armagh around a representation of the Virgin crowned in glory and below a tripartite window representing the constituents of the Holy Trinity.

The decision to authorize use of a particular vernacular language and the text of the translation to be employed must be approved by at least a two-thirds majority of the relevant Bishops ' Conference, whose decisions must be confirmed by the Holy See.

* Jasenovac Committee of the Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church

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, 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.

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 ).

The Eastern Catholic Churches are represented in the Holy See and the Roman Curia through the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, which " is made up of a Cardinal Prefect ( who directs and represents it with the help of a Secretary ) and 27 Cardinals, one Archbishop and 4 Bishops, designated by the Pope ad quiquennium.

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.

Other Bishops, Priests, Religious men and women going up a steep mountain, at the top of which there was a big Cross of rough-hewn trunks as of a cork-tree with the bark ; before reaching there the Holy Father passed through a big city half in ruins and half trembling with halting step, afflicted with pain and sorrow, he prayed for the souls of the corpses he met on his way ; having reached the top of the mountain, on his knees at the foot of the big Cross he was killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at him, and in the same way there died one after another the other Bishops, Priests, Religious men and women, and various lay people of different ranks and positions.

These the Church, by virtue of her authority, gladly accepted and approved .< p > Bishops will always strive to discern new gifts of consecrated life granted to the Church by the Holy Spirit ; the approval of new forms of consecrated life is reserved to the Apostolic See.

Holy orders, a Sacrament by which Bishops, Priests and Deacons are ordained and receive power and authority to perform their sacred duties.

The 1962 document, approved by Pope John XXIII and signed by Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani, Secretary of the Holy Office, was addressed to " all Patriarchs, Archbishops, Bishops and other Local Ordinaries, including those of Eastern Rite ".

Constance was a missionary bishopric in newly converted lands, and did not look back on late Roman church history ( unlike the Raetian bishopric of Chur, established 451 ) and Basel, which was an episcopal seat from 740, and which continued the line of Bishops of Augusta Raurica, see Bishop of Basel.

Bishops form the leadership in the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, the Anglican Communion, the Lutheran Church, the Independent Catholic Churches, the Independent Anglican Churches, and certain other, smaller, denominations.

The Roman Catholic Church teaches that an ecumenical council is a gathering of the College of Bishops ( of which the Bishop of Rome is an essential part ) to exercise in a solemn manner its supreme and full power over the whole Church.

Bishops, teaching in communion with the Roman Pontiff, are to be respected by all as witnesses to divine and Catholic truth.

The Congregation for Bishops ( Congregatio pro Episcopis ) is the congregation of the Roman Curia which oversees the selection of new bishops that are not in mission territories or those areas that come under the jurisdiction of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches who deal with the Eastern Catholics, pending papal approval.

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* The repeal of the Ecclesistical Titles Act, which banned Roman Catholic Bishops from re-assuming pre-reformation ecclesiastical bishropic titles in the United Kingdom, as well as the prohibition of the wearing of clerical outfits.

* 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 )

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.

The Irish Catholic Bishops ' Conference ( Gaelic, Comhdháil Easpag Caitliceach Éireann ) is the episcopal conference of the Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland.

The Earl of Cork with several other noblemen and Bishops of the Church of Ireland were opposed to the attempts of King James II regarding the restoration of Roman Catholicism and petitioned the King on 17 November 1688 to call a parliament " regular and free in all its circumstances ".

Martin V also ordered the Bishops of Porto and Alba to take steps against all Fraticelli " in the Roman province, the March of Ancona, the Duchy of Spoleto and other localities " ( 7 June 1427 ).

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.

As Archbishop, he succeeds Marc Cardinal Ouellet, his former superior, who became the Prefect of one of the Roman Curia's most important administrative departments, the Sacred Congregation for Bishops, in July 2010.

The seven suburbicarian dioceses are Roman Catholic dioceses located in the vicinity of Rome, whose ( titular ) bishops form the highest-ranking order of Cardinals, the Cardinal Bishops.

* New American Bible, an English Bible translation that was produced by members of the Roman Catholic biblical scholars in cooperation with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

* List of Roman Catholic Bishops of Chicago

* United States Conference of Catholic Bishops: ARTICLE 9 " I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY CATHOLIC CHURCH ": 830-831: Provides Roman Catholic interpretations of the term catholic

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.

# The Church of Ireland and Roman Catholic Bishops, according to seniority of consecration

Within the Roman Curia his membership includes: Secretariat of State ( second section ), and Causes of Saints, Bishops, Evangelization of Peoples ( Congregatio de Propaganda Fide ), Clergy, Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life ( congregations ).