Given current trends in the UMC — with overseas churches growing, especially in Africa, and U. S. churches collectively losing about 1, 000 members a week — it has been estimated that Africans will make up at least 30 % of the delegates at the 2012 General Conference, and it is also possible that 40 % of the delegates will be from outside the U. S. One Congolese bishop has estimated that typical Sunday attendance of the UMC is higher in his country than in the entire United States.

During the 16th century the queen's move took its modern form as a combination of the move of the rook and the current move of the bishop.

In 1528, the secular powers of the bishop over both Neder-and Oversticht – which included the city of Utrecht – were transferred to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, who became the Lord of the Seventeen Provinces ( the current Benelux and the northern parts of France ).

The other is the current Roman Catholic bishop of the Catalan city of La Seu d ' Urgell, currently Joan Enric Vives i Sicilia.

The current bishop is Bernard-Nicolas Jean-Marie Aubertin, who was appointed in 2005.

He also included analysis of certain positions of rook and bishop versus rook, such analysis being still current theory even today.

* Kevin C. Rhoades ( 1957-), ninth bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg and current bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana

Under LDS Church policy, a man whose sealed wife has died does not have to request any permission beyond having a current temple recommend and an interview with his bishop to get final permission for a living ordinance, to be married in the temple and sealed to another woman, unless the new wife's circumstance requires a cancellation of sealing.

The current presiding bishop is Mark S. Hanson, who is the past president of the Lutheran World Federation.

The current building was built in the Carpenter Gothic style in 1887 by Cornelius Onderdonk, who constructed many of the original buildings in Rugby, and consecrated by Episcopal bishop Charles Quintard in 1888.

The current church was opened in 1906 by Monsignor Terreno, bishop of La Plata and it was completed in 1912.

The current church was opened in 1906 by Monsignor Terreno, bishop of La Plata and was completed in 1912.

It is the seat of the Bishop of Motherwell and it's current bishop is Bishop Joseph Devine.

The office has existed since the foundation of the see from part of the Diocese of Manchester in 1926 under King George V. The current bishop is the Right Reverend Nicholas Reade, the 8th Bishop of Blackburn, who signs + Nicholas Blackburn, and who will retire on 31 October 2012.

The current bishop is the Right Reverend Steven Croft, who is the seventh to hold the position and signs + Steven Sheffield.

The current archbishop is Wojciech Ziemba, supported by an auxiliary bishop.

The Roman Catholic Church's current official teachings about papal privilege and power that are unacceptable to the Eastern Orthodox churches are the dogma of the pope's infallibility when speaking officially " from the chair of Peter ( ex cathedra Petri )" on matters of faith and morals to be held by the whole Church, so that such definitions are irreformable " of themselves, and not by the consent of the Church " ( ex sese et non ex consensu ecclesiae ) and have a binding character for all ( Catholic ) Christians in the world ; the pope's direct episcopal jurisdiction over all ( Catholic ) Christians in the world ; the pope's authority to appoint ( and so also to depose ) the bishops of all ( Catholic ) Christian churches except in the territory of a patriarchate ; and the affirmation that the legitimacy and authority of all ( Catholic ) Christian bishops in the world derive from their union with the Roman see and its bishop, the Supreme Pontiff, the unique Successor of Peter and Vicar of Christ on earth.

In fact, the current Bishop of Stockholm, Anders Arborelius, is the first ethnically Swedish Catholic bishop in Europe since the Reformation.

Duquesne University can count more than 79, 000 living alumni including two cardinals and the current bishop of Pittsburgh.

The current Church of Ireland bishop is the Right Reverend Richard Lionel Clarke, Bishop of Meath and Kildare, who was elected in 1996.

The current bishop is the Most Reverend Michael Smith, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Meath, who succeeded to the title on 16 May 1990.

The current bishop is the Right Reverend Malcolm McMahon, O. P., the 9th Bishop of Nottingham.

Volf takes Joseph Ratzinger ( Catholic, current Pope Benedict XVI ) and John Zizioulas ( Orthodox, and a bishop ) as his dialogue partners, and critiques their anchoring of the communal and hierarchical nature of the church in hierarchical Trinitarian relations ( both thinkers gives primacy to the “ One ,” though each does this in a different way ).

The current bishop is the Most Rev.

But it is also the climax to one of the absorbing chapters in our current political history.

Actually, you could wish for some passion, now and then, but when you look around the world and see the little volcanos of current history which partisan social passions have wrought, you are glad that in these pamphlets there is at least some civilized calm.

What makes the current phenomenon unique is that so many science-fiction writers have reversed a trend and turned to writing works critical of the impact of science and technology on human life.

It follows that the solution to the current disunity of the free nations is only to a very limited extent a matter of devising new machinery of consultation and coordination.

With our current $3 per hundred tax rate, it is safe to assume that this will qualify when you suggest a community should `` try to develop a modest industrial plant '' as the best way to meet these problems.

In this hour of crisis, the wisdom, the dedication, the stabilizing force that he represents in current American government is an almost indispensable source of strength.

Borrowing in anticipation of current taxes and other revenues is a routine procedure of the majority of municipalities at all times.

This is used as a reference for comparing the ohmic heating and the electrical energy obtained from the measured current through the element and the measured voltage across the element.

Much of this necessary increase in research and development, though properly chargeable to current expenses, is not reflected in earnings until projects are completed and the new machines sold in quantity, usually over a period of several years.

However, its modern one-story layout is designed to increase our production capacity, permit more efficient manufacturing, and substantially reduce current repair and maintenance costs.

Of current interest is Abilene, Kansas, the birthplace of ex-President Eisenhower.

Considering that the current school-age potential is 23 million youths, the project and its message on hunting and shooting education have many more to reach.

There must be a restriction in the deed to provide that the customer may not be charged more than the current market price for the oil, an obvious precaution, since the account is permanently wedded, just like with gas or electricity.

The pressure gradient producing the jet is due to the nature of the magnetic field in the arc ( rapid decrease of current density from cathode to the anode ).

That we are experiencing an upsurge of interest in the many formulations and preventive adaptations of brief treatment in social casework is evident from even a small sampling of current literature.

It is still used in making current population estimates in post-census years, though the value of these estimates is open to question.

While the U. S. Department of Labor has a program of projecting industry and occupational employment trends and publishing current outlook statements, there is little tangible evidence that these projections have been used extensively in local curriculum planning.

Moreover, the current information on what types of training are needed and possible is too limited and fragmentary.

This is not extended to anticipated levels of GNP, however -- only the current level of GNP affects the public pressure against wage-price increases.

electricity plays such an important part in community life today that it is difficult to envision a time when current was not available for daily use.

It is to be hoped that some way will be found to keep this important work current.

In general, P is a function of V and the current density, but it shall here be assumed as a constant.

The operator must continually supply the correct amount of turning current to the gyro torquers so that the effect of gyro drift is canceled.

If the Z gyro is drifting, a current generated by the autocollimator is delivered to the gyro torquer to cancel the drift.