# The Holy Sobor of high Orthodox clergy.

Holy Sobor of 1917, following the election of Tikhon of Moscow | Saint Tikhon as Patriarch of Moscow.

A Holy Sobor unlike Holy Synod is distinct as it represents a gathering composed only of bishops.

Since the Catholic Church expresses such desire that the Sacred Scriptures be read, the following taken from the Holy Bible ( New Catholic Edition ) will prove a means of grace and a source of great spiritual blessing.

The Anglican Communion considers itself to be part of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church and to be both Catholic and Reformed.

The Eastern Orthodox Church dedicates several days throughout the year to the dead, mostly on Saturdays, because of Jesus ' resting in the Holy Sepulchre on that day.

It was then that he began to study the principles of law and administration under Konstantin Pobedonostsev, then a professor of civil law at Moscow State University and later ( from 1880 ) chief procurator of the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in Russia.

He was a key figure in the Danish policies of territorial expansion in the Baltic Sea, Europeanization in close relationship with the Holy See, and reform in the relation between the Church and the public.

Most Protestant denominations deny the need of maintaining episcopal continuity with the early Church, holding that the role of the apostles was that, having been chosen directly by Jesus as witnesses of his resurrection, they were to be the " special instruments of the Holy Spirit in founding and building up the Church ".

In ordination, the Church affirms and continues the apostolic ministry through persons empowered by the Holy Spirit.

Since 1972, the Roman Catholic Church uses the name " Anointing of the Sick " both in the English translations issued by the Holy See of its official documents in Latin and in the English official documents of Episcopal conferences.

The teaching of the Eastern Orthodox Church on the Holy Mystery ( sacrament ) of Unction is similar to that of the Roman Catholic Church.

Adjacent to the Forum, at the junction of the same cardo, and the other decumanus, Hadrian built a large temple to the goddess Venus, which later became the Church of the Holy Sepulchre ; despite 11th century destruction, which resulted in the modern Church having a much smaller footprint, several boundary walls of Hadrian's temple have been found among the archaeological remains beneath the Church.

* Church of the Holy Sepulchre

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: Do you believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting?

** One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church

According to the writer Timothy Dufort, by 1969, all Church of England bishops had acquired Old Catholic lines of apostolic succession recognised by the Holy See.

The Holy See accepts as valid the ordinations of the Old Catholics in communion with Utrecht, as well as the Polish National Catholic Church ( which received its orders directly from Utrecht, and was — until recently — part of that communion ); but Roman Catholicism does not recognise the orders of any group whose teaching is at variance with what they consider the core tenets of Christianity ; this is the case even though the clergy of the Independent Catholic groups may use the proper ordination ritual.

The Eastern Orthodox Church reads from Job during Holy Week.

In the Church of England, readings from Lamentations are used at Morning and Evening Prayer on the Monday and Tuesday of Holy Week, and at Evening Prayer on Good Friday.

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In the 13th century Saint Thomas Aquinas aimed to recapture the teachings of the Church Fathers on the role of the Holy Trinity in the economy of salvation.

In the Orthodox Church and many Eastern Catholic Churches oil lamps (, Slavonic: lampada ) are still used both on the Holy Table ( altar ) and to illuminate icons on the iconostasis and around the temple ( church building ).

Constantine of Preslav is also the alleged author of Служба на Методия ( Service for Methodius ), showing the struggle of Saint Methodius for the recognition of Old Church Slavonic, as well as of Проглас към евангелието ( Proclamation of the Holy Gospels ) where he rejects and castigates the admiration of the foreign language ( mean.

The Slavonic version of the hymn is also often used outside of Great Lent, with the triple invocation « Пресвѧтаѧ Богородице спаси насъ » (" Most Holy Theotokos, save us ") appended.

In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Holy Mysteries ( reserved sacrament ) are kept in a tabernacle or ark ( Slavonic: Kovtchég ) on the altar at all times.

In the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches, the altar is referred to as the Holy Table or Throne ( Church Slavonic: Prestol ).

The Intercession of the Theotokos or the Protection of Our Most Holy Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary, known in Church Slavonic as Pokrova ( Покровъ, " protection "), and in Greek as Sképē ( Σκέπη ), is a feast of the Mother of God celebrated in the Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic Churches.

** Imperial Diet ( Holy Roman Empire ), the imperial assembly of the princes of the Holy Roman Empire until 1806

Forceful and determined, he summoned the bishops of the Holy Roman Empire to attend an assembly at Mainz on 8 September 1122.

In this assembly of Holy Friends, which took place in the Beit Midrash of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, secrets of and revelations on mitzvot of the Torah are explained and clarified — roots and deep meanings of mitzvot.

He was elected through the influence of the excommunicated Holy Roman Emperor, Louis the Bavarian, by an assembly of priests and laymen, and consecrated at Old St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, on 12 May 1328 by the bishop of Venice.

Apart from " Eucharist " others are the " Lord's Supper ", the " Breaking of Bread ", the " Eucharistic assembly ( synaxis )", the " memorial of the Lord's Passion and Resurrection ", the " Holy Sacrifice ", the " Holy and Divine Liturgy " and " Holy Communion ".

In the Holy Roman Empire, instead of an exclusive aristocratic assembly, the Imperial Diet was the highest organ, membership of which, expressed by the title Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, was granted to all major princes, and various minor ones, princes of the church ( parallel to the Lords spiritual ) and in some cases restricted to a collective ' curiate ' vote in a ' bench ', such as the Grafenbank.

Nominally, the Holy Roman Emperor was overlord and the Bishop of Genoa was president of the city ; however, actual power was wielded by a number of " consuls " annually elected by popular assembly.

It is said to allow one to see the Holy Retinue of Amitabha and his assembly upon one's deathbed.

For Genoa — nominally — the Holy Roman Emperor was overlord and the Bishop of Genoa was president of the city ; however, actual power was wielded by a number of consuls annually elected by popular assembly.

Philip then called an assembly in which twenty-nine accusations against the pope were made, including infidelity, heresy, simony, gross and unnatural immorality, idolatry, magic, loss of the Holy Land, and the death of Celestine V. Five archbishops and twenty-one bishops sided with the king.

In, for instance, inviting bishops appointed under CPCA rules to attend as Catholics in full communion with Rome an assembly of the Synod of Bishops, the Holy See indicated that it does not consider that the Church in mainland China ( as distinct from the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association ) approves of abortion and artificial contraception.

It made a similar accusation of Holy See unilateralism ( which some would interpret instead as Beijing Government refusal to distinguish between religion and politics ) when Pope Benedict XVI invited four bishops from mainland China – three of whom were government-approved – to the October 2005 assembly of the Synod of Bishops in Rome.

The term is mainly used historically for the Imperial Diet, the general assembly of the Imperial Estates of the Holy Roman Empire, and for the legislative bodies of certain countries.

It is understood that elders are appointed by the Holy Spirit ( Acts 20: 28 ) and are recognised as meeting the qualifications by the assembly and by previously existing elders, whereas in the time of the establishment of the first New Testament assemblies it was either an apostle's duty or his directly appointed delegate's responsibility who ordained elders ( for example, Timothy or Titus ), this original order being consistent with the Christian concept that authority comes from above and does not arise from men.

The Golden Bull of 1356 was a decree issued by the Reichstag assembly in Nuremberg and Metz headed by the Luxembourg Emperor Charles IV that fixed, for a period of more than four hundred years, important aspects of the constitutional structure of the Holy Roman Empire.

He was enthroned on December 28, 1947 at the Iaşi Metropolitan Cathedral, during a Divine Liturgy celebrated by an assembly of bishops, priests and deacons, in the presence of members of the Holy Synod, of representatives of the central and local governments ( two days before the Romanian People's Republic was proclaimed ), and of numerous clergy and laymen.

Excepting assembly unity, there are common threads throughout all Plymouth Brethren groups, most notably the centrality of the Lord ’ s Supper ( Holy Communion ) in the weekly calendar as well as the format of meetings and worship: the distinctions between the many groups are generally not well understood by non-members.

As regent within the Holy German Empire, she had the right to a seat at the empirical German-Roman assembly, a right she also used.

Also distinctive of the Sourozh diocese has been the stipulation in its diocesan statutes according to which the Sourozh diocesan assembly has the right to determine what bishops can be appointed to the diocese ( it is standard in the Russian Orthodox Church for bishops to be appointed directly by the Holy Synod without necessarily having to consult the diocese in question ).

There were also concerns at this time over Metropolitan Anthony's announcement that he wished to be succeeded as head of the diocese by Bishop Basil Osborne, an announcement which contravened both the statutes of the Moscow Patriarchate ( according to which bishops are appointed by the Holy Synod ) and those of the Diocese of Sourozh ( according to which the diocesan assembly determines episcopal appointment ).