The spread of increasingly democratic forms of representative governance has its origin in the formation of the first General Conventions of the American Episcopal Church in the 1780s, which established a " House of Bishops " and a " House of Deputies.

" As of 2 012 it is in dialog with the Episcopal Church, the Moravian Church, the Korean American Presbyterian Church, the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in America, and the U. S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

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:

Like many Catholic universities in the United States, Seton Hall arose out of the Plenary Council of American Bishops, held in Baltimore, Maryland in 1844, with the goal of bringing Catholicism to higher education in order to help propagate the faith.

* 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

After lying in state at the North American College and the Cathedral of the Holy Name, he was interred in the Bishops ' Mausoleum at Mount Carmel Cemetery in Hillside on June 3.

The House of Bishops of the Anglican Church in America — the American Province of the TAC — responded on March 3, 2010, voting unanimously to request acceptance under the personal ordinariate provision.

* Psalm 51 ( 50 ) New American Bible from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

For public worship, such as at weekly mass, most Catholic Bishops Conferences in English-speaking countries require the use of other translations, either the adapted New American Bible or the Jerusalem Bible.

The North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation is an ecumenical standing conference that has been meeting semiannually since it was founded in 1965 under the auspices of the Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Standing Conference of the Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the Americas ( SCOBA ).

He was a member of the Interdicasterial Commission for a Just Distribution of Clergy ( 1991 ), the IV General Conference of Latin American Bishops ( CELAM ) ( 1992 ), the Synod of Bishops on Consecrated Life and Their Mission in the Church and the World ( 1993 ), the Synod of Bishops ´ Special Assembly for America ( 1997 ) and, since 1994, a permanent consultant to the Congregation for the Clergy.

When Bishop Anthony Pilla was made President of the USNCCB-or the Conference of Catholic Bishops in 1995, the Terminal was lit in red, green, and white by Cleveland's Italian American community.

In order to fulfill the new requirements for national conferences of bishops, the American bishops established — in 1966 — the National Conference of Catholic Bishops ( NCCB ) and its secular arm, the United States Catholic Conference ( USCC ).

He served as an assistant to Cardinal Adeodato Giovanni Piazza at the First General Conference of the Latin American Bishops in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1955.

Within the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, he served as Chairman of the Committee on Doctrine ( 1979 – 81 ), of the Committee on Human Values ( 1984 – 1987 ), and of the Committee on the Pontifical North American College ( 1989 – 1991 ; 1994 – 1997 ).

The CCT membership includes the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops as well as many traditional " mainline " or " liturgically-based " American and Canadian Protestant denominations such as Lutheran, North American Anglican ( Episcopalian ), Presbyterian, and more loosely Methodist and / or Seventh Day Adventist.

He served as an American delegate to the World Synod of Bishops at the Vatican in 1971, and was chairman of the Bishops ' Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs ( 1972-75 ).

Even though in most cases the completion of the definitive editions of their writings is still years off, enough documentation has already been assembled to warrant drawing a new composite profile of the leadership which performed the heroic dual feats of winning American independence and founding a new nation.

Eugene Lester assembled a witty and explicit score for `` An American Journey '', and Malcolm McCormick gave it sprightly imaginative costumes.

He assembled quantities of facts about the nature of American politics in general, as well as about the day-to-day course of the closest Presidential election in American history.

The Chester Beatty Library houses the famous collection of manuscripts, miniature paintings, prints, drawings, rare books and decorative arts assembled by American mining millionaire ( and honorary Irish citizen ) Sir Alfred Chester Beatty ( 1875 – 1968 ).

In an effort to limit German influence, in 1910-11, the US State Department backed a consortium of American investors, assembled by the National City Bank of New York, in acquiring control of the Banque Nationale d ' Haïti, the nation's only commercial bank and the government treasury.

Scientific American assembled a team of investigators who worked with a senior Abrams associate given the pseudonym " Doctor X ".

Considering Metropolis too long and unwieldy, Paraufamet commissioned American playwright Channing Pollock to write a simpler version of the film that could be assembled using the existing material.

The Rubettes were an English pop band assembled in 1973 by the songwriting team of Wayne Bickerton, then the head of A & R at Polydor Records, and his co-songwriter, Tony Waddington, after their doo-wop and 1950s American pop-influenced songs had been rejected by a number of existing acts.

In 1935, he assembled an American orchestra for British bandleader Ray Noble, developing the arrangement of lead clarinet over four saxophones that eventually became the sonic keynote of his own big band.

The 1911 eleventh edition was assembled with the management of American publisher Horace Everett Hooper.

The bank was nominally owned by a group of Arab investors, but in order to assuage fears from the Federal Reserve, Clifford had assembled a board of distinguished American citizens to exercise day-to-day control.

The only ships on the lake following the American retreat from Quebec were a small fleet of lightly armed ships that Benedict Arnold had assembled following the capture of Fort Ticonderoga in May 1775.

The costume is partially assembled by company American & Fancy Feather, using the tail feathers from turkeys ; as the feathers are rarely clean, company owner Anthony Trento calls the Big Bird costume his " toughest customer ".

This was then revised as a song performed by a London-based pop group The Spectrum, assembled by RCA Victor as an imitation of the American band The Monkees, who happened to share their name with the organisation that appears in Captain Scarlet.

New Kids on the Block ( also initialized as NKOTB ) are an American boy band from Boston, Massachusetts, assembled in 1984 by producer Maurice Starr.

Upon the formation of American Motors in 1954, the plant assembled 1955 Nash and Hudson Ramblers ( 2-and 4-door sedans ); as well as Nash Canadian Statesman and Hudson Wasp ( 4door sedans ).

At the 1908 meeting of the American Archaeological Society in St. Louis, Missouri, a New Orleans police official named John Raymond Legrasse asked the assembled antiquarians to identify a statuette composed of an unidentifiable greenish-black stone, that " had been captured some months before in the wooded swamps south of New Orleans during a raid on a supposed voodoo meeting.

The name Machetero evokes images of an impromptu band of Puerto Ricans who assembled to defend the island of Puerto Rico from the invading forces of the United States Army during the Spanish – American War, between July 26 and August 12, 1898.

North American crash testing has not yet been conducted, and skeptics question the ability of an ultralight vehicle assembled with adhesives to produce acceptable crash safety results.

For this task large numbers of De Havilland Tiger Moth, Airspeed Oxford and North American Harvard were manufactured or assembled locally and second-hand biplanes were acquired — such as Hawker Hinds and Vickers Vincents — as well as other types for specialised training such as Avro Ansons and Supermarine Walrus.

Close to 16, 000 men ( the largest troop deployment ever assembled on the North American continent ) was united under the orders of General James Abercromby, commander in chief of the British forces in North America.

When Catlin returned east in 1838, he assembled the paintings and numerous artifacts into his Indian Gallery, and began delivering public lectures which drew on his personal recollections of life among the American Indians.

Most pre-2004 Maximas were built in Oppama, Japan, until the current North American Maximas started being assembled in Smyrna, Tennessee.

Or else the North really believes that all Southerners except a few quaint old characters have come around to realizing the errors of their past, and are now at heart sharers of the American Dream, like everybody else.

A third, one of at least equal and perhaps even greater importance, is now being traversed: American immersion and involvement in world affairs.

He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.

`` Suppose you take Mr. Hearst's morning American at $10,000 a year '', Brisbane proposed.

On one visit he stopped at the office of the American, where he was known surreptitiously as `` the Great White Chief '', and for the first time met his managing editor, fat Moses Koenigsberg.

Lewis's remarks about his marriage were suggestive enough to induce American reporters to invade the offices of Harcourt, Brace & Company for information, to pursue Mrs. Lewis to Cromwell Hall, and, after she had returned to New York, to ferret her out at the Stanhope on upper Fifth Avenue where she had taken an apartment.

Less respect for the legal conventions was displayed by Castro's right hand man, Che Guevara, who edified the Inter-American Economic and Social council meeting in Montevideo by reading two secret American documents purloined from the United States embassy at Caracas, Venezuela.

The resolution under discussion at the convention was to require the boards of election to instruct judges to properly display the American flag.

Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.

At least in Indonesia, Khrushchev found an American proud to be at total war with Communism ''!!

Ejaculated the surprised woman, looking at Alex for an explanation but he, parting from her without ceremony, only offered a few words about the doctor's provincial American speech and a state of nerves brought on by the demands of his work.

and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., Governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim Monday, May 22nd, 1961, as National Maritime Day, reminding our citizens that American Merchant ships and American seamen are ready at all times to serve our Nation in the cause of freedom and justice.

An exhibit, `` Macropathology -- An Ancient Art, A New Science '', was presented at the annual meeting of the American Medical Association.

I should like at this time, Mr. Speaker, to pay warm tribute to Arthur Hays Sulzberger and Charles Merz on the occasion of their retirement from distinguished careers in American journalism.

The senior policy officer may be moved to think hard about a problem by any of an infinite variety of stimuli: an idea in his own head, the suggestions of a colleague, a question from the Secretary or the President, a proposal by another department, a communication from a foreign government or an American ambassador abroad, the filing of an item for the agenda of the United Nations or of any other of dozens of international bodies, a news item read at the breakfast table, a question to the President or the Secretary at a news conference, a speech by a Senator or Congressman, an article in a periodical, a resolution from a national organization, a request for assistance from some private American interests abroad, et cetera, ad infinitum.

Specifically, Congress should consider authorizing the Peace Corps to receive contributions from American businesses, unions, civic organizations and the public at large.

Juniors competed last year at American Kennel Club and Canadian Kennel Club, recognized shows to be eligible to compete in this Class -- the Finals for the year.

The American Pointer Club is still continuing to donate trophies to Juniors who win at Junior Showmanship Classes with Pointers.

`` There had been a threesome at the party in the suite's bedroom: Miss Harrington ( this was Diane's choice for a Roman name ), another woman who has figured in other very interesting events and one of your well-known American actors.

Similarly, the American Cancer Society ( ACS ), the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation, and the BBB have each stated lately that medical quackery is at a new high.