Bishops ( as well as other members of the priesthood ) can trace their line of authority back to Joseph Smith, Jr., who, according to church doctrine, was ordained to lead the Church in modern times by the ancient apostles Peter, James, and John, who were ordained to lead the Church by Jesus Christ.

In 1008, after long negotiations with the Bishops of Würzburg and Eichstätt, who were to cede portions of their dioceses, the boundaries of the new diocese were defined, and Pope John XVIII granted the papal confirmation in the same year.

Over time, these canons were supplemented with decretals of the Bishops of Rome, which were responses to doubts or problems according to the maxim, " Roma locuta est, causa finita est " (" Rome has spoken, case is closed ").

It continued to be so, 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.

Bishops were supported by their two assistants: a filius maior ( typically the successor ) and a filius minor, who were further assisted by deacons.

The legates were received by King Sigismund and by the assembled Bishops, and the King yielded the presidency of the proceedings to the papal legates, Cardinal Dominici of Ragusa and Prince Charles of Malatesta.

Group portrait of the Seven Bishops whom James ordered imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1688, but who were acquitted of charges of seditious libel.

When the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Sancroft, and six other bishops ( the Seven Bishops ) wrote to James asking him to reconsider his policies, they were arrested on charges of seditious libel, but at trial they were acquitted to the cheers of the London crowd.

Bishops and clergy were to receive state salaries, and the government would pay for the building and maintenance of churches.

Such was his frustration during this period of rejection that he also applied to the Methodists, Independents and Presbyterians, and applications were even mailed directly to the Bishops of Chester and Lincoln and the Archbishops of Canterbury and York.

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.

Barons, Bishops and Abbots who were party to Magna Carta.

While the civil power in the East controlled the church and the bishop of Constantinople, the capital, wielded much power, in the West the Bishops of Rome were able to consolidate the influence and power they already possessed.

Bishops are encouraged to look at model saints like Boniface, and Pope Pius X. Priests were encouraged to be living examples of the love of Christ and his sacrifice.

In the early Church, new Bishops of Rome were elected or chosen by the clergy and the people of the diocese in the presence of the other bishops in the province, which was the manner customarily used in other dioceses.

In the third century, nine Bishops of Rome were interred in the Catacomb of Callixtus, in the part now called the Capella dei Papi.

Bishops from the rest of Europe outside Spain and France feared retribution from Frederick, while many other bishops were prevented from attending either by the invasions of the Tartars in the Far East or Muslim incursions in the Middle East.

Over 22, 000 electronic signatures, some of them anonymous, were collected on a web petition to ask the Bishops, Cardinals and the Pope to reconsider the new translation.

* Bishops consecrated within the " official " Church who were subsequently persuaded to the sedevacantist position.

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.

The evidence establishing the rise in a Bishops status comes in the form of Cyril being able to serve as a patron.

This clearly shows a rise in Bishops status and power during this time period.

The acquisition of Nienburg led to a long-time conflict with the Bishops of Minden, who suspiciously eyed the steep rise of their comital neighbours.

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

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

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.

A league was formed by certain lords, who pledged themselves to protect the free preaching of the Gospel upon all their possessions and estates, and to obey the power of the Bishops only where their orders accorded with the injunctions of the Bible, with the university as arbiter of any disputed points.

Another organ of power is the Bishops ' Council ( Архиерейский Собор ).

When the Frankish rulers established the system of feudalism, the Bishops of Utrecht came to exercise worldly power as prince-bishops.

Giving power to men as Bishops and Priest with forgiving power equal to Christ, the Church become so much like the Devil, desiring of power over the masses.

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.

In " The Bishops as Pawns ," D ' Souza theorized that U. S. Catholic bishops were being manipulated by American liberals in agreeing to oppose the U. S. military buildup and use of power abroad and actually knew very little about these subjects to which they were lending their religious credibility, writing:

In the end, power over the Church and education was ceded to the Russian Party, while the King maintained a veto over the decision of the Synod of Bishops.

Bishop Jones, assuming the power of the Senior Bishop was the same as Bishop Mason when he was alive, made decisions and appointments without collaboration and consensus of the Board of Bishops, General Assembly, or the Executive Board.

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

* Bishops Castle Group ( re proposed power station )

The town remained under the authority of the Bishops of Meissen until 1559 when power was transferred to Augustus, Elector of Saxony, who introduced Protestantism.

He was the leading counsel in June 1688 for the Seven Bishops, when he strangely exposed and very boldly ran down the dispensing power, but his mistaken tactics were nearly the cause of his clients losing their case.

By a decree of 21 January 2009 ( Protocol Number 126 / 2009 ), which was issued in response to a renewed request that Bishop Fellay made on behalf of all four bishops whom Lefebvre had consecrated on 30 June 1988, the Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, by the power expressly granted to him by Pope Benedict XVI, remitted the automatic excommunication that they had thereby incurred, and expressed the wish that this would be followed speedily by full communion of the whole of the Society of Saint Pius X with the Church, thus bearing witness, by the proof of visible unity, to true loyalty and true recognition of the Pope's Magisterium and authority.

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

Those monasteries which enjoy the status of being stauropegiac will be subject only to a primate or his Synod of Bishops and not the local bishop.

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.

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.

Cardinal Walter Kasper used the latter term in his intervention at the 2005 Assembly of the Synod of Bishops.

Adam of Bremen's best-known work is the Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum ( Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church ), which he began only after the death of the archbishop Adalbert.

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.

Bishops in all of these communions are ordained by other bishops through the laying on of hands.

In the Catholic Church the Congregation for Bishops oversees the selection of new bishops with the approval of the pope.

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.

The collegial expression of episcopal leadership in the United Methodist Church is known as the Council of Bishops.

The Council of Bishops speaks to the Church and through the Church into the world and gives leadership in the quest for Christian unity and interreligious relationships.

The Conference of Methodist Bishops includes the United Methodist Council of Bishops plus bishops from affiliated autonomous Methodist or United Churches.

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.

No texts survive from this area, though the written text Vita Ansgari (" The life of Ansgar ") by Rimbert ( c. 865 ) describes the missionary work of Ansgar around 830 at Birka, and Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum ( Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church ) by Adam of Bremen in 1075 describes the archbishop Unni, who died at Birka in 936.

In Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum ( Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church ), Adam of Bremen mentions Birka many times, and the book is the main source of information on the city.

This was in effect a series of two conferences: ( i ) between James and the Bishops ; ( ii ) between James and the Puritans on the following day.

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.

The General Synod and the College of Bishops of Chung Hwa Sheng Kung Hui planned to publish a unified version for the use of all Anglican churches in China in 1949, which was the 400th anniversary of the first publishing of the Book of Common Prayer.