Most cardinals are already bishops at the time of their appointment, the majority being archbishops of important archdioceses or patriarchs, and a substantial portion of the rest already titular archbishops serving in the Vatican.

Most Eastern Orthodox churches allow varying amounts of formalised laity and / or lower clergy influence on the choice of bishops.

Most bishops had a different attitude toward freemen and nobles.

Most historians agree that the emperors called the councils to force the Christian bishops to resolve divisive issues and reach consensus.

In the Anglican Communion, archbishops are styled " The Most Reverend " and addressed as " Your Grace ", while bishops are styled " The Right Reverend " and addressed as " My Lord " or " Your Lordship ".

In some countries, this usage is followed also by the Roman Catholic Church, but in others no distinction is made and " The Most Reverend " and " Your Excellency " are used for archbishops and bishops alike.

Most of the bishops present accepted the letter, proclaiming that Peter spoke through Agatho.

It is paired with a modifier or noun for some offices in some religious traditions: e. g., Roman Catholic bishops are usually styled The Most Reverend ( reverendissimus ); Anglican bishops are styled The Right Reverend ; some Reformed churches have used The Reverend Mister as a style for their clergy.

** In some countries of the Commonwealth, such as the United Kingdom ( but not in Northern Ireland ), only archbishops are styled The Most Reverend and other bishops are styled The Right Reverend.

Most of England believed that Parliament had done enough to curb the power of King Charles I, but the radicals in Parliament ( the extremist Puritans ) and the radicals around the country ( again, extremist Puritans ) wanted to reform the Church of England by getting rid of the bishops ( and all other things with the semblance of Catholicism ) and by establishing the Puritans ' method of worship as the standard.

By a decree of the Sacred Congregation of Ceremonial of 31 December 1930 the Holy See granted bishops of the Roman Catholic Church the title of Most Reverend Excellency ( Latin, Excellentia Reverendissima ).

Most rural priests were married and many urban clergy and bishops had wives and children .” " A terrible picture of the decay both of clerical morality and of all sense of anything like vocation is drawn in the writings of St. Peter Damian, particularly in his Liber Gomorrhianus.

The presiding bishops of the church are: Most Rev.

Most surviving art from the Medieval period was religious in focus, often funded by the Church, powerful ecclesiastical individuals such as bishops, communal groups such as abbeys, or wealthy secular patrons.

Most of the bishops, pastors, and churches stayed with Campbell, and this branch remains the largest entity of the two with approximately 500 churches worldwide.

Most bishops in Ireland and Britain were not recognized by Rome because their apostolic succession was uncertain and they condoned non-Roman practices.

Most rural priests were married and many urban clergy and bishops had wives and children .” Then in the 12th century the Western Church declared that Holy Orders were not merely a prohibitive but a diriment canonical impediment to marriage, making a marriage by priests invalid and not merely forbidden.

However, in 1721 Tsar Peter I abolished completely the patriarchate and so the Church effectively became a department of the government, ruled by a Most Holy Synod composed of senior bishops and lay bureaucrats appointed by the Tsar himself.

Most Catholics were descendants of Irish immigrants and the church was mostly led by Irish-born priests and bishops.

* Apostolic Protonotaries de numero ( and other superior prelates of the offices of the Roman curia who are not bishops and who, as indicated above, may be addressed as Most Reverend Monsignor ) have the same dress as other Apostolic Protonotaries, but wear the mantelletta in choir and a black biretta with a red tuft.

Most of the first bishops of the American Church were consecrated here to fill the ever multiplying dioceses necessitated by the great waves of immigration and nation building that were emblematic of the 19th century.

Most titular bishops hold the title to a titular see.

Most of these dioceses and parishes are members of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America ( ECUSA ), while others are under the jurisdiction of overseas bishops from Uganda, Kenya, Bolivia and other countries.

Most often, the term describes those who create within a context of the fine arts or ' high culture ', activities such as drawing, painting, sculpture, acting, dancing, writing, filmmaking, photography, and music — people who use imagination, talent, or skill to create works that may be judged to have an aesthetic value.

They are followed by a further wicked king, or " little horn ", who subdues three of the ten ( 7: 24 ), speaks against the Most High, wages war against the saints, and attempts to change the set times and laws ( 7: 25 ); after ' a time and times and half a time ', this king is judged and stripped of his kingdom by an " Ancient of Days " and his heavenly court ( 7: 26 ); next, " one like a son of man " approaches the Ancient of Days and is invested with worldwide dominion ; moreover, his everlasting reign over all kings and kingdoms is shared with " the people of the Most High " ( 7: 27 )

Most critics judged the rowing pictures successful and auspicious, but after the initial flourish, Eakins never revisited the subject of rowing and went on to other sports themes.

It is a companion to the Hart Memorial Trophy, which is awarded to the League's Most Valuable Player, as judged by members of the Professional Hockey Writers ' Association.

Most Protestants believe the soul is judged to go to Heaven or Hell immediately after death.

He won three E. J. Whitten Medals – awarded to the player judged best player on the ground for Victoria in State of Origin matches, the 1997 AFL Players Association Most Valuable Player Award ( now known as the Leigh Matthews Trophy ) and the Michael Tuck Medal for player judged best on ground in the 2004 pre-season cup final.

In February 2005, the BLUG was judged to be the " Most Popular Indian Linux User Group " at the Linux Asia conference in New Delhi.

Most tests can be judged and certified by any professional member, but the higher levels must be judged by, or with mandatory video review by, judges selected by the national office.

In a 1998 study judged by a panel of 56 historians, writers, and others, Carl G. Fisher was named one of the 50 Most Influential People in the history of the State of Florida by The Ledger newspaper.

Most studies indicated an association between lack of circumcision and increased risk of HIV, but the quality of evidence was judged insufficient to warrant implementation of circumcision as a public health measure.

Most legal cases in adversarial systems do not go to trial ; this can lead to great injustice when the defendant has an unskilled or overworked attorney, which is likely to be the case when the defendant is poor.

( Most notably, in the case Li v. Yellow Cab Co., 13 Cal. 3d 804 ( 1975 ), the California Supreme Court adopted the principle of comparative negligence in the face of a California Civil Code provision codifying the traditional common-law doctrine of contributory negligence.

Most canids bear young once a year, from 1 to 16 or more ( in the case of the African wild dog ) at a time.

Most printers already use such small pixels that aliasing is rarely a problem and, in any case, they don't have the addressable fixed subpixels ClearType requires.

Most early discussions of diaspora were firmly rooted in a conceptual ' homeland '; they were concerned with a paradigmatic case, or a small number of core cases.

Most of the attempts to lower or prove the complexity of FFT algorithms have focused on the ordinary complex-data case, because it is the simplest.

Most dramatic perhaps is the case of " a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was not better but rather grew worse.

Most English personal pronouns have five forms ; in addition to the nominative and oblique case forms, the possessive case has both a determiner form ( such as my, our ) and a distinct independent form ( such as mine, ours ) ( with the exceptions that these are not distinct for the third person singular masculine car, it is his and that the third person singular neuter it does not have the possessive independent form ); and they have a distinct reflexive or intensive form ( such as myself, ourselves ).

Most, but not all, reloads perform best when the powder selected fills 95 % or more of the case ( by volume ).

Most motherboards have connectors for additional case fans as well.

Most sections also have an assistant principal ( or co-principal or associate principal ), or in the case of the first violins, an assistant concertmaster, who often plays a tutti part in addition to replacing the principal in his or her absence.

Most legal proceedings require a prima facie case to exist, following which proceedings may then commence to test it, and create a ruling.

Most contemporary press accounts attributed Bryan's nomination to his eloquence, though in the case of Republican and other gold-favoring newspapers, they considered it his demagoguery.

Most often it was transcribed phonetically using Chinese characters, as is the case with the only surviving copies of The Secret History of the Mongols.

; Programming language – independent vs language-dependent: Most high-level languages share common programming constructs and abstractions: decision ( if, switch, case ), looping ( for, while, repeat .. until, do .. while ), and encapsulation ( structures, objects ).

Most mobile phones have a Firmware Over The Air firmware upgrade capability for much the same reasons ; some may even be upgraded to enhance reception or sound quality, illustrating the fact that firmware is used at more than one level in complex products ( in a CPU-like microcontroller versus in a digital signal processor, in this particular case ).

Most Lithuanian nouns can take the illative ending, indicating that from the descriptive point of view the illative still can be treated as a case in Lithuanian, although since the beginning of the 20th century it isn't included in the lists of standard Lithuanian cases in most grammars and textbooks and the prepositional construction į + accusative is more frequently used today to denote direction.

Most species are difficult to contain in any density, due to territoriality of males, or in the case of oryxes ( which have a relatively hierarchical social structure ), an aggressive disposition ; they can easily kill a human.

File: Glockenspiel-malletech. jpg | Most orchestral glockenspiels are mounted in a case

Most developed countries now provide a government funded emergency medical service, which can be run on a national level, as is the case in the United Kingdom, where a national network of ambulance trusts operate an emergency service, paid for through central taxation, and available to anyone in need, or can be run on a more regional model, as is the case in the United States, where individual authorities have the responsibility for providing these services.

Most milking machines are powered by electricity but, in case of electrical failure, there can be an alternative means of motive power, often an internal combustion engine, for the vacuum and milk pumps.

Most traditional psychological definitions of aggression focus on the harm to the recipient of the aggression, implying this is the intent of the aggressor ; however this may not always be the case.

Most early signature schemes were of a similar type: they involve the use of a trapdoor permutation, such as the RSA function, or in the case of the Rabin signature scheme, computing square modulo composite n. A trapdoor permutation family is a family of permutations, specified by a parameter, that is easy to compute in the forward direction, but is difficult to compute in the reverse direction without already knowing the private key.