In 340, one hundred bishops met at Alexandria, declared in favor of Athanasius, and vigorously rejected the criticisms of the Eusebian faction at Tyre.

A group of bishops and divines met first at Chertsey and then at Windsor in 1548, drawn from both conservatives and reformers, agreed only " the service of the church ought to be in the mother tongue ".

In 1215, the bishops of the Catholic Church met at the Fourth Council of the Lateran under Pope Innocent III.

An Orthodox congress of Eastern Orthodox bishops met in Constantinople in 1923 under the presidency of Patriarch Meletios IV, where the bishops agreed to the Revised Julian calendar.

This has been reinforced by the Lambeth Conferences of Anglican Communion bishops, which first met in 1867.

Although this principle was held by all emperors after Constantine, it met with increasing resistance and ultimately rejection by bishops in the west after the effective end of Imperial power in there.

The House of Commons backed the proposals strongly, but the bill of supremacy met opposition in the House of Lords, particularly from the bishops.

After the Little Entrance, the arch-priest and arch-deacon conduct the bishop-elect before the Royal Gates where he is met by the bishops and kneels before the altar on both knees and the Gospel Book is laid over his head and the consecrating bishops lay their hands upon the Gospel Book, while the prayers of ordination are read by the eldest bishop ; after this, the newly consecrated bishop ascends the synthranon ( bishop's throne in the sanctuary ) for the first time.

He met with Soviet representatives including Foreign Minister Georgi Chicherin, who rejected any kind of religious education, the ordination of priests and bishops, but offered agreements without the points vital to the Vatican.

A great council met, attended by numerous Italian, Burgundian, and French bishops in such vast numbers it had to be held in the open air outside the city.

The bishops met for three public sessions: 28 June, 5 July, and 17 July 1245.

The leave was granted, but the bishops who met at Paris in 825 were incompetent for the task.

The efforts of Clarke and Lindsey met with substantial criticism to stifle attempts at reform, from the more conservative laity, priests and bishops who held substantial power within the Church of England.

This movement met with strong opposition from the Patriarch Nikephoros, who himself gathered a group of bishops and abbots about him and swore them to uphold the veneration of images.

When John of Antioch and his Syrian bishops finally reached Ephesus five days after the council, they met with Candidian who informed them that Cyril had begun a council without them and had ratified Celestine's conviction of Nestorius as a heretic.

Augustine met British bishops in a series of conferences in which he attempted to assert his authority and persuade them to abandon certain customs that conflicted with Roman practice.

According to Bede, some bishops and other representatives of the nearest province of the Britons met Augustine at a location at the border of the Kingdom of Kent, which was thereafter known as Augustine's Oak.

We know from the letters of St. Cyprian that, except in time of persecution, the African bishops met at least once a year, in the springtime, and sometimes again in the autumn.

Religious superiors met their bishops ' pressure with the response that the austere and cloistered ideal was no longer acceptable to more than a tiny minority of regular clergy, and that any attempt on their part to enforce their order's stricter rules could be overturned in counter-actions in the secular courts, were aggrieved monks and nuns to obtain a writ of praemunire.

At a council held at Winchester at Easter 1070, the bishops met with papal legates from Alexander II.

In November 1398, an influential group of magnates and prelates met at Falkland Castle that included Albany, Rothesay, Archibald, earl of Douglas, Albany's son Murdoch, justiciar North of the Forth along with the bishops Walter of St Andrews and Gilbert of Aberdeen — the outcome of this meeting manifested itself at the council meeting held in January 1399 when the king was forced to surrender power to Rothesay for a period of three years.

In 2000 he was part of an inter-American delegation of bishops that met with Castro for more than four hours.

It is a forum for bishops of the Communion to reinforce unity and collegiality through manifesting the episcopate, to discuss matters of mutual concern, and to pass resolutions intended to act as guideposts.

Administratively, these bishops and their territories are organized into various autocephalous groups or synods of bishops who gather together at least twice a year to discuss the state of affairs within their respective sees.

With Constantine ’ s supporters largely dealt with, Stephen wrote to the Frankish king, Pepin the Short, notifying him of his election, and asking for a number of bishops to participate in a council he was seeking to hold to discuss the recent confusion.

* March – The Synod of Jerusalem brings together bishops and representatives from the whole of Eastern Orthodox Christendom to discuss Orthodox dogma against the challenge of Protestantism.

It ought to consist of bishops either solely ( in the presence of Presyters who should have a right, not to debate with them, but, hearing what they discuss, to represent by writing their opinions, when they think it necessary ) or of bishops and such divines and representatives of the clergy, as shall be found necessary, securing a real preponderance to the bishops ....

While each bishop is autonomous in his own diocese, meetings of the conference give bishops a chance to discuss issues of mutual concern, or issues of national policy.

* Ecumenical council, a meeting of the bishops of the whole church convened to discuss and settle matters of Church doctrine and practice

The cardinal bishops were to meet first and discuss the candidates before summoning the cardinal priests and cardinal deacons for the actual vote.

In 1561 a provincial synod was held, likewise at Nagyszombat, to discuss the participation of the bishops of Hungary in the Council of Trent, which had just re-convened.

The bishops urged in every way the use of the new Catechism ; they enjoined its frequent reading, so that all its contents would be committed to memory ; they exhorted the priests to discuss parts of it at their meetings, and insisted upon its being used for instructing the people.

All but two of the Irish bishops accepted the Elizabethan Settlement, although the vast majority of priests and the church membership remained Roman Catholic.

The World Council of Churches estimates the membership of the AME Church at around 2, 500, 000, 3817 pastors, 21 bishops and 7000 congregations.

As of 2010, its membership was estimated at some 646, 000 faithful, with seven bishops, 626 parishes, 501 priests, 67 deacons, and 234 men and women religious

The membership of the USCCB consists of all active and retired Latin-rite Catholic and Eastern Catholic bishops ( i. e., diocesan, coadjutor, and auxiliary bishops ) of the United States and the Territory of the Virgin Islands — and the ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter — but not the bishops of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Territory of American Samoa, and the Territory of Guam.

The church is led by a presiding bishop and twenty diocesan bishops, representing 20 dioceses, and has a membership of more than 5. 6 million.

By the time of the death of Dr Felkin in 1926, it had a very active membership and was well established – its membership included bishops, senior ranking military officers, members of Parliament, and local dignitaries and officials.

In 1928 he was nominated to the college of bishops in Funchal, while canon at the Sé Cathedral, exercising roles in the Acção Católica, membership in the Brotherhood of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia (), as religious assistant to the older Asilo dos Velhinhos () in Santa Clara, with weekly sermons throughout the churches / chapels of Funchal and participation in many cultural and religious movements within the Diocese.

The decisions of the conferences are binding on the individual bishops only if agreed to by at least two-thirds of the membership and confirmed by the Holy See.

Today, as a result of a decision of the Second Vatican Council, the membership includes diocesan bishops from diverse parts of the world who are not cardinals.

Its leaders and membership included at times the former and future bishops John Ponet, John Scory, Richard Cox, Edmund Grindal, Edwin Sandys, John Aylmer, and John Bale.