Once chosen, he must request blessing: the blessing of an abbot is celebrated by the bishop in whose diocese the monastery is or, with his permission, another abbot or bishop.

The ceremony of such a blessing is similar in some aspects to the consecration of a bishop, with the new abbot being presented with the mitre, the ring, and the crosier as symbols of office and receiving the laying on of hands and blessing from the celebrant.

The abbey is a species of " exempt religious " in that it is, for the most part, answerable to the Pope, or to the abbot primate, rather than to the local bishop.

Additionally, at the enthronement of the Archbishop of Canterbury, there is a threefold enthronement, once in the throne the chancel as the diocesan bishop of Canterbury, once in the Chair of St. Augustine as the Primate of All England, and then once in the chapter-house as Titular Abbot of Canterbury.

Like an abbot, after being confirmed in her office by the Holy See, an abbess is solemnly admitted to her office by a formal blessing, conferred by the bishop in whose territory the monastery is located, or by an abbot or another bishop with appropriate permission.

A new settlement close to Amathus but further inland, Agios Tychonas, is named after the bishop Saint Tychon of Amathus.

There is scarcely anything to be said for the possibility of Ambrose having written the book before he became a bishop, and added to it in later years, incorporating remarks of Hilary of Poitiers on Romans.

Related to the argument from morality is the argument from conscience, associated with eighteenth-century bishop Joseph Butler and nineteenth-century cardinal John Henry Newman.

# One bishop succeeding another in the same see meant that there was a continuity of teaching: " while the Church as a whole is the vessel into which the truth is poured, the Bishops are an important organ is carrying out this task ".

The Porvoo Common Statement ( 1996 ), agreed to by the Anglican churches of the British Isles and most of the Lutheran churches of Scandinavia and the Baltic, also stated that " the continuity signified in the consecration of a bishop to episcopal ministry cannot be divorced from the continuity of life and witness of the diocese to which he is called.

Jay comments that this is sometimes seen as an early reference to the idea of the transmission of grace through the apostolic succession which in later centuries was understood as being specifically transmitted through the laying on of hands by a bishop within the apostolic succession ( the " pipeline theory ").

It is " one of four elements which define the true Church of Jesus Christ " and legitimizes the ministry of its clergy, as only a bishop within the succession can perform legitimate or " valid " ordinations.

Protestants have objected that this theory is not explicitly found in Scripture and the New Testament uses ' bishop ' and ' presbyter ' as alternative names for the same office.

Church, Ministry and Sacraments in the New Testament Paternoster Press: 1993, p. 92f </ ref > Moving on to Ignatius of Antioch, Barrett states that here we find a sharp distinction between ' presbyter ' and ' bishop ': the latter now stands out as " an isolated figure " who is to be obeyed and without whom it is not lawful to baptise or hold a love-feast .< Barrett, C. K.

Church, Ministry and Sacraments in the New Testament Paternoster Press: 1993, p. 94f </ ref > He also points out that when Ignatius writes to the Romans, there is no mention of a bishop of the Roman Church, " which we may suppose had not not yet adopted the monarchical episcopate.

* Le Mans has a well-preserved old town ( Cité Plantagenêt, also called Vieux Mans ), where the cobbled streets and half-timbered house fronts provided setting for Gérard Depardieu in Cyrano de Bergerac ( 1989 ) and a cathedral: Cathédrale St-Julien, is dedicated to St Julian of Le Mans, who is honoured as the city's first bishop.

Though he is now honoured simply as a confessor, it is probable that St. Ecgberht was a bishop.

In 1879, it was elevated to a basilica Bishop Guigues was appointed the first bishop and is honoured with a lifesize statue to the right of the Cathedral.

Apollinaris of Ravenna () is a Syrian saint, whom the Roman Martyrology describes as " a bishop who, according to tradition, while spreading among the nations the unsearchable riches of Christ, led his flock as a good shepherd and honoured the Church of Classis near Ravenna by a glorious martyrdom.

The letter of Auxentius, a 4th-century Arian bishop of Milan, regarding the missionary Ulfilas, gives the clearest picture of Arian beliefs on the nature of the Trinity: God the Father (" unbegotten "), always existing, was separate from the lesser Jesus Christ (" only-begotten "), born before time began and creator of the world.

After this, the senior priest ( or bishop ) pours pure olive oil and a small amount of wine into the shrine lamp, and says the " Prayer of the Oil ", which calls upon God to "... sanctify this Oil, that it may be effectual for those who shall be anointed therewith, unto healing, and unto relief from every passion, every malady of the flesh and of the spirit, and every ill ..." Then follow seven series of epistles, gospels, long prayers, Ektenias ( litanies ) and anointings.

" the bishop presiding after the likeness of God and the presbyters after the likeness of the council of the Apostles, with the deacons also who are most dear to me, having been entrusted with the diaconate of Jesus Christ " — Epistle of Ignatius to the Magnesians 6: 1.

" In like manner let all men respect the deacons as Jesus Christ, even as they should respect the bishop as being a type of the Father and the presbyters as the council of God and as the college of Apostles.

Mitre worn by an Eastern bishop with icon s of Christ, the Theotokos ( Mary, Mother of God ) and John the Baptist | Forerunner ( John the Baptist ).

When sufficient information has been gathered, the investigation of the candidate, who is called " Servant of God ", is presented by the local bishop to the Roman Curia — in particular, the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints — where it is assigned a postulator, whose task is to gather further information about the life of the Servant of God.

authority to dispose of anything belonging to the Church, but according to the Apostolic canon the supervision of all ecclesiastical affairs belongs to the bishop, who shall administer them conformably to the will of God.

If anyone shall violate the truce of God he shall be admonished three times by the bishop to make satisfaction.

The fifth century Christian historian Sozomen claimed that the relics of Habakkuk were found at Cela, when God revealed their location to Zebennus, bishop of Eleutheropolis, in a dream.

The basic tenets of Puritanism include original depravity ( born Goons ), limited atonement ( worldly ritual or pray cannot ensure salvation ), predestination, literal authority of the bible, evil persons / behavior will be punished by God while good persons / behavior are rewarded, and they also believed along with Dontay Hickson ( Protestant Reformation ) that no pope or bishop could impose laws on Christians without their consent.

Timothy ( Greek: ; Timótheos, meaning " honouring God " or " honored by God ") was a first-century Christian bishop who died around the year 97 AD.

The creed of Ulfilas, which concludes a letter praising him written by his foster-son and pupil Auxentius of Durostorum ( modern Silistra ) on the Danube, who became bishop of Milan, distinguishes God the Father (" unbegotten ") from God the Son (" only-begotten "), who was begotten before time and who created the world, and the Holy Spirit, proceeding from the Father and the Son:

I, Ulfila, bishop and confessor, have always so believed, and in this, the one true faith, I make the journey to my Lord ; I believe in one God the Father, the only unbegotten and invisible, and in his only-begotten son, our Lord and God, the designer and maker of all creation, having none other like him ( so that one alone among all beings is God the Father, who is also the God of our God ); and in one Holy Spirit, the illuminating and sanctifying power, as Christ said after his resurrection to his apostles: " And behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you ; but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be clothed with power from on high " ( Luke 24: 49 ) and again " But ye shall receive power, when the Holy Ghost is come upon you " ( Acts 1: 8 ); being neither God ( the Father ) nor our God ( Christ ), but the minister of Christ ... subject and obedient in all things to the Son ; and the Son, subject and obedient in all things to God who is his Father ... ( whom ) he ordained in the Holy Spirit through his Christ.

In 1787 a bishop of Nova Scotia was appointed with a jurisdiction over all of British North America ; in time several more colleagues were appointed to other cities in present-day Canada.

In 1814 a bishop of Calcutta was made ; in 1824 the first bishop was sent to the West Indies and in 1836 to Australia.

* 1623 – Fran &# 231 ; ois de Laval, French bishop ( d. 1708 )

In the East abbots, if in priests ' orders and with the consent of the bishop, were, as we have seen, permitted by the second Nicene council, AD 787, to confer the tonsure and admit to the order of reader ; but gradually abbots, in the West also, advanced higher claims, until we find them in AD 1489 permitted by Innocent IV to confer both the subdiaconate and diaconate.

At the First Synod of Tyre in AD 335, they brought accusations against Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, the primary opponent of Arius ; after this, Constantine had Athanasius banished, since he considered him an impediment to reconciliation.

Indeed, he must consider himself no less guilty than this poor bishop ; at least to the extent that he made no concealment of his wish that all synagogues should be destroyed, that no such places of blasphemy be further allowed to exist.

Under Ambrose's major influence, emperors Gratian, Valentinian II and Theodosius I carried on a persecution of Paganism .< ref name = " MacMullen1984p100 "> MacMullen ( 1984 ) p. 100: ‘ The law of June 391, issued by Theodosius [...] was issued from Milan and represented the will of its bishop, Ambrose ; for Theodosius — recently excommunicated by Ambrose, penitent, and very much under his influence < sup > 43 </ sup > — was no natural zealot.

Alcuin's own work only mentions such collateral kinsmen as Wilgils, father of the missionary saint Willibrord ; and Beornred, abbot of Echternach and bishop of Sens, who was more distantly related.

Jerome states that Apollos was so dissatisfied with the division at Corinth, that he retired to Crete with Zenas, a doctor of the law ; and that the schism having been healed by Paul's letter to the Corinthians, Apollos returned to the city, and became its bishop.

The city remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church, Troadensis ; the seat is vacant following the resignation of the last bishop in 1971.

This does not mean that the episcopate, in the sense of the holder of the order or office of bishop, must have developed only later, or have been plural, because in each church the college or presbyter-overseers ( also called " presbyter-bishops ") did not exercise an independent supreme power ; it was subject to the Apostles or to their delegates.

" follow your bishop, as Jesus Christ followed the Father, and the presbytery as the Apostles ; and to the deacons pay respect, as to God's commandment " — Epistle of Ignatius to the Smyrnans 8: 1.

; Primate: A primate is usually the bishop of the oldest church of a nation.

; Metropolitan bishop: A metropolitan bishop is an archbishop in charge of an ecclesiastical province, or group of dioceses, and in addition to having immediate jurisdiction over his own archdiocese, also exercises some oversight over the other dioceses within that province.

; Archbishop: An archbishop is the bishop of an archdiocese.

; Suffragan bishop: A suffragan bishop is a bishop subordinate to a Metropolitan.

; Titular bishop: A titular bishop is a bishop without a diocese.