He then put on his shoes in the vestry, and a chapter was held, and the bishop or his delegate preached a suitable sermon.

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.

In 733, Bede travelled to York, to visit Ecgbert, who was then bishop of York.

It is the one ordained deacon, priest and then bishop who is understood to hold the fullness of the ( ministerial ) priesthood, given responsibility by Christ to govern, teach and sanctify the Body of Christ, members of the Faithful.

Since then, cardinals have been advanced to cardinal bishop exclusively by Papal appointment.

Apparently, realising his death was near, Constantius had himself baptised by Euzoius, the Semi-Arian bishop of Antioch, and then declared that Julian was his rightful successor.

The commission was created by parliament appointing three bishops and three barons, who then selected one more bishop, two earls, and three more barons.

He was a bishop of Berytus ( modern-day Beirut ) in Phoenicia, then of Nicomedia where the imperial court resided in Bithynia, and finally of Constantinople from 338 up to his death.

Gregory established Eulalius as bishop of Nazianzus and then withdrew into the solitude of Arianzum.

Two deacons go to priest-elect who, at that point, had been standing alone in the middle of the church, and bow him down to the west ( to the people ) and to the east ( to the clergy ), asking their consent by saying “ Command ye !” and then lead him through the holy doors of the altar where the archdeacon asks the bishop ’ s consent, saying, “ Command, most sacred master !” after which a priest escorts the candidate three times around the Holy Table, during which he kisses each corner of the Holy Table as well as the bishop's epigonation and right hand and prostrates himself before the holy table at each circuit.

The ordaining bishop then places his omophor and right hand over the ordinand's head and recites aloud the first Prayer of Cheirotonia and then prays silently the other two prayers of cheirotonia while a deacon quietly recites a litany and the clergy, then the congregation, chant “ Lord, have mercy ”.

The candidate then typically serves as an assistant curate and may later be ordained as a priest at the discretion of the bishop.

In the post-Apostolic church, bishops emerged as overseers of urban Christian populations, and a hierarchy of clergy gradually took on the form of episkopos ( overseers ; and the origin of the term bishop ) and presbyters ( elders ; and the origin of the term priest ), and then deacons ( servants ).

He was named Cardinal-Priest of San Sisto on 22 February 1672 ( allegedly, against his will ); later he was bishop of Manfredonia, bishop of Cesena and then archbishop of Benevento.

After studying at the universities of Siena and Florence, he settled in the former city as a teacher, but in 1431 accepted the post of secretary to Domenico Capranica, bishop of Fermo, then on his way to the Council of Basel ( 1431 – 39 ).

In March 1612, however, Pope Paul V appointed him as the Archbishop of Bologna, for which he was presumably ordained and then he was consecrated a bishop on 1 May of that year.

1 Timothy, however, states that certain Church leaders should have but one wife: " A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach " ( chapter 3, verse 2 ; see also verse 12 regarding deacons having only one wife ).

Raël founded Clonaid ( originally Valiant Venture Ltd Corporation ) in 1997, but then handed it over to a Raëlian bishop, Brigitte Boisselier in 2000.

He was then consecrated as a bishop around 340 and evangelized among the Goths for 7 years during the 340s.

Coke was then " set apart " as a superintendent ( bishop ) by Wesley and dispatched with Vasey and Whatcoat to America to take charge of Methodist activities there.

Birinus was then established as bishop of the West Saxons, with his seat at Dorchester-on-Thames.

In 1885 a US firm, the Christian Literature Company, first of Buffalo, then New York, began to issue the volumes in a reorganised form, edited by the episcopalian bishop of New York, A. Cleveland Coxe.

A bishop ( English derivation from the New Testament Greek ἐπίσκοπος, epískopos, " overseer ", " guardian ") is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight.

" 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.

Certain clerics in many dioceses at the time, not just that of Rome, were said to be the key personnel — the term gradually became exclusive to Rome to indicate those entrusted with electing the bishop of Rome, the pope.

In a letter of about 446 to a successor bishop of Thessalonica, Anastasius, Leo reproached him for the way he had treated one of the metropolitan bishops subject to him ; after giving various instructions about the functions entrusted to Anastasius and stressing that certain powers were reserved to the pope himself, Leo wrote: " The care of the universal Church should converge towards Peter's one seat, and nothing anywhere should be separated from its Head.

However, if members of a particular Church are so few that no hierarchy of their own has been established, their spiritual care is entrusted to a bishop of another ritual Church.

He lived, broken and old, with the bishop, and the bishop entrusted his care to a parish woman.

Later, an other decree of the same bishop of Cochin dated 11 November 1622, tracing that one indicated in 1602, entrusted newly to the Jesuits the spiritual cure in the districts of Jaffna, Trincomalee and Batticaloa, giving to them possibility to build churches, to train the sacraments and to convert the souls.

In 1509 he entrusted the reins of the Duchy to his mother and Hugues des Hazards, bishop of Toul, and followed Louis XII in his campaign in northern Italy, where he took part in the Battle of Agnadello of that year.

In Catholic teaching, each diocese ( Latin Rite term ) or eparchy ( Eastern Rite term ) is also a local or particular Church, though it lacks the autonomy of the particular Churches described above: " A diocese is a section of the People of God entrusted to a bishop to be guided by him with the assistance of his clergy so that, loyal to its pastor and formed by him into one community in the Holy Spirit through the Gospel and the Eucharist, it constitutes one particular church in which the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church of Christ is truly present and active.

Swentoslaw, from the post of Poznan pastor and Gniezno canon, was chosen to be bishop of Poznan ; and in truth already of an advanced age, he had broken free of his pastoral burden, but he yielded to those urging him and with his knowledge and by his example ruled the flock entrusted to him.

Until his sixteenth year, the boy's education was entrusted to his cousin Patrick Plunkett, Abbot of St Mary's, Dublin, and brother of the first Earl of Fingall who later became bishop, successively, of Ardagh and Meath.

The bishop entrusted this piece of work to Fr.

He was married in 1882, elected professor of theology 1897 and bishop of Västerås in 1898 ; and entrusted with the post of archbishop in 1900.

In 1099, Emperor Henry IV allotted the county to the bishop, who entrusted it to Albert III, Count of Namur.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester began on March 3, 1868, when Pope Pius IX entrusted eight counties ( Monroe, Livingston, Wayne, Ontario, Seneca, Cayuga, Yates, and Tompkins ) within the Diocese of Buffalo to Bernard J. McQuaid, the first bishop of Rochester.

Before the election of the diocesan administrator of a vacant see, the governance of the see is entrusted, with the powers of a vicar general, to the auxiliary bishop, if there is one, or to the senior among them, if there are several, otherwise to the college of consultors as a whole.

A 6th-century image of Augustine of Hippo | Saint Augustine, bishop of Hippo Regius.

Bishop Epiphanius of Salamis, wrote his letter 51 to John, Bishop of Jerusalem ( c. 394 ) in which he recounted how he tore down an image in a church and admonished the other bishop that such images are " opposed.

This bishop consecrated the Basilica Cathedral in 1866, even though it was not completed, giving the image of the Virgin of the Light a permanent home.

The image depicts the Settle Hill and the bishop ´ s house in Monterrey Mexico after the Battle of Monterrey in 1846.

The later legend of the image recounts that because the successors of Abgar reverted to paganism, the bishop placed the miraculous image inside a wall, and setting a burning lamp before the image, he sealed them up behind a tile ; that the image was later found again, after a vision, on the very night of the Persian invasion, and that not only had it miraculously reproduced itself on the tile, but the same lamp was still burning before it ; further, that the bishop of Edessa used a fire into which oil flowing from the image was poured to destroy the Persians.

His image was engraved on the seal of the Abbey, depicting him in the vestments of a bishop.

* Matriz Church of São Martinho-the parochial church is located in the middle of the main village, and includes two minor alters ( with an image of Nossa Senhora do Rosário and Nosso Senhor Crucificado ) and a main alter ( with an image of its patron saint São Martinho ); the ecclesiastical parish of Alfaião pertained to the Monastery of Castro de Avelãs since 1490, the archbishop of Braga assigning the abbot at the time ; between 1501 – 1514, its clergy were served from the monastery ; the construction of the current church occurred in the 17th century ; the first baptisms were registered in 1627 ; the first marriage was documented in 1628 ; in 1706, its second parish priest Father Carvalho da Costa, who was assigned by a canon at the Sé Church in Miranda, earned 150 $ 000 réis, the parish included 66 neighbours ; the first death was recorded in 1724 ; by 21 April 1758, the parish which was located between two mounts and pertained to the bishop of Miranda do Douro, comarca and seat of Bragança, and was subject to the House of Braganza.

In the Russian version of this badge the Polish white eagles are replaced with gold Russian double-headed imperial eagles, their wings parially overlapping the arms of the cross and the central medallion bearing the letters " SS " in red on a white enamel background instead of the original image of the saintly bishop, surrounded by a green enamel laural wreath.