consider how excellent this office preaching is, because it is apostolic ; how useful, because it is directly ordained for the salvation of souls ; how perilous, because few have in them, or perform, what the office requires, for it is not without great danger.

The remainder of Abbadie's life was spent in writing and preaching, and in the performance — not too sedulous, for he was frequently absent from his benefice — of the ordinary duties of his office, varied by visits to England and to Holland, where most of his books were printed.

While Rough was preaching in the parish church on the Protestant principle of the popular election of a pastor, he proposed Knox to the congregation for that office.

Council of Trent Bishops are required to select for this priestly office those only who are " fit ," i. e. those who " can exercise the ministry of preaching with profit to souls.

For example, Lutheranism maintains the biblical doctrine of " the preaching office " or the " office of the holy ministry " established by God in the Christian Church.

Article 5: To obtain such faith God instituted the office of preaching, giving the gospel and the sacraments.

King Henry IV passed the De Heretico Comburendo statute in 1401, which recited in its preamble that it was directed against a certain new sect " who thought damnably of the sacraments and usurped the office of preaching.

“ A few months before the session of the Surat Congress, Suranath traveled in the guise of a Tantric priest all over Bengal (…) preaching sedition … went Calcutta and stayed there for a month at the Sandhya office … He then formed a central committee (…), Mokshada, Shyamsundar Chakravarti, Arabinda Ghose, Tara Khepa, Annada Kaviraj and others as members .” A few days before the publication of the Yugantar, at Benares, Preonath with Hrishikesh and Suranath “ convened a public meeting as well as a meeting of the pundits wherein it was settled by quotations from the Hindu Astrology and Astronomy and announced firmly that the sinful Iron Age was now over …”

Traditionally, a Latter Day Saint holding this priesthood office is a " traveling minister " and an " especial witness " of Jesus Christ, charged with the mission of preaching the gospel to the entire world under the direction of the Twelve Apostles.

Had he not believed that preaching was a higher calling, he might have run for office himself as he was occasionally encouraged to do.

In the closing days of the war, the Radicals pushed through a new state constitution that barred Confederate sympathizers from voting, serving on juries, holding public office, preaching the gospel, or carrying out any number of public roles.

Council of Trent Bishops are required to select for this priestly office those only who are " fit ," i. e. those who " can exercise the ministry of preaching with profit to souls.

Title vii, Of Christian Doctrine .-( i ) Of the office of preaching.

Though the Emperor retained some power over imperial churches, his power was damaged irreparably because he lost the religious authority that previously belonged to the office of the king.

Eisenhower himself was baptized in the Presbyterian church shortly after assuming the presidency, the only president thus far to undergo such a rite while in office ; and his attendance at West Point was in sharp opposition to the pacifist tenets of the groups to which his parents belonged.

Because the municipality of Espoo, to which the area of Kauniainen belonged, did not show much interest in the new community, the company was responsible for developing it ; roads were built, a school founded, electricity arranged and the company lobbied for a railway station ( opened in 1908 ) and a police office.

It made the Mayor of Buenos Aires an elective position ( previously the office belonged to a presidential appointee and was in control of a huge budget ), to be lost to the opposition in 1996 ; the president of the Central Bank and the Director of the AFIP ( Federal Tax & Customs Central Agency ) could only be removed with the Congress's approval.

Some historians think that Asterio held a religious office which combined elements of the pagan and Christian religions, while others think he may be linked to the Brythonic refugees that settled in Britonia ( Galicia ) in the 6th century: The Parrochiale Suevorum ( an administrative document of the Suebi Kingdom ) tells that the lands of Asturias belonged to the Britonian see, and it is a fact that some features of the Celtic Christianity penetrated in Northern Spain, like the Celtic tonsure which was condemned by the Visigoth bishops who assisted to the Fourth Council of Toledo.

Under Prime Minister David Lloyd George, however, from 1918 onwards, the powers of the office increased, as Lloyd George unilaterally claimed for himself powers that had previously belonged to the Cabinet collectively, including, most dramatically, the right to seek a parliamentary dissolution.

The first holder of the office, Henry Sewell, led the country for the shortest total time ; his only term lasted only thirteen days ( the shortest term actually belonged to Harry Atkinson, whose third term lasted only seven days, but Atkinson served longer than Sewell in total ).

Public office belonged to the commonwealth, and its holders had a personal responsibility for their actions.

The state legislature passed a bill providing that the top two vote-getters for each office in the primary would advance to the general election, regardless of which political party they belonged to.

The Sovereign then decreed that the office belonged to The Crown, and was not transmitted along with the earldom.

The House of Lords eventually ruled that the office belonged to the heir male, Robert Bertie, 14th Baron Willoughby de Eresby, who later became Earl of Lindsey.

The name of the office was changed 8 years later with the Yugoslav constitutional reforms of 1953, into " President of the Executive Council " ( Predsjednik Izvršnog Vijeća ), and remained the central office of Croatian politics in spite of the institution of a collective Presidency ( previously the mostly-nominal function of the head of state belonged to the speaker of the Croatian parliament, the Sabor ).

The mill office door carries a date 1785 which formerly belonged to a post mill which stood in the adjacent field.

See, for example, the attempt to reimpose episcopacy on the Church of Scotland, a policy that was ' successful ' until the reign of William and Mary, when the office of bishop was discontinued except among the small minority of Scots who belonged to the Scottish Episcopal Church.

If a vacancy arises, it is filled by the county central committee of the political party to which the former official belonged, i. e., the Republicans appoint someone to an office held by a Republican and the Democrats to an office held by a Democrat.

His great uncle, Sir Robert Ros, knight, was deputed to perform the office of chamberlain to Archbishop Stafford, on the day of his installation at Canterbury ; this office belonged to the Lord Ros, from his tenure of the manor of Hethfield, in Kent.

The township of Sakhile near Standerton was the site of violent, service delivery riots that led to the Lekwa Municipality mayor, her royal highness Juliet Queen Radebe-Khumalo and other ( corrupt ) municipal office bearers being fired by the African National Congress in October 2009 to which they belonged.

In " The Grave Shift ", even after his office has been cleared out ( and later reclaimed by a somewhat-reluctant Nick Stokes after Catherine Willows passed on the offer ), the fetal pig in a jar was placed back in there by Hodges, who felt that it belonged there.

He attended schools Wako Gakuen, Hosei University Daini Senior High School, and graduated from the vocational school Bunka Gakuin. The promotional agencies to which he has belonged are, in order, Horipro, Ishihara International Productions, Inc., and Terao Ongaku Jimusho ( 寺尾音楽事務所 ), literally " Terao Music Offices ," his own, personal office.

The state supreme power belonged to the General Cossack ( Military ) Council, while the office of head of state was presided by the Hetman.

In the sixth series, her death came back to haunt the Cold Case Unit with a mysterious pendant being sent to the office, with the sender claiming it belonged to Mel.

Abbesses are, like abbots, major superiors according to canon law, the equivalents of abbots or bishops ( the ordained male members of the church hierarchy who have, by right of their own office, executive jurisdiction over a building, diocesan territory, or a communal or non-communal group of persons — juridical entities under church law ).

Furthermore, they claim that in the Bible there's no evidence showing that the office must be conveyed by laying on of hands and no Biblical command that it must be by a special class of bishops ( the laying on of hands is repeatedly used to give a commission to some person in scripture.

Eastern Orthodox bishops, along with all other members of the clergy, are canonically forbidden to hold political office.

The influence of Richard Hooker was crucial to an evolution in this understanding in which bishops came to be seen in their more traditional role as ones who delegate to the presbyterate inherited powers, act as pastors to presbyters, and holding a particular teaching office with respect to the wider church.

The Apostolic Signatura is the supreme appellate and administrative court concerning decisions even of the Roman Rota and administrative decisions of ecclesiastical superiors ( bishops and superiors of religious institutes ), such as closing a parish or removing someone from office.

" The signatories pledged their loyalty to the pope, but argued that the teaching office of pope and bishops " cannot and must not supersede, hamper and impede the teaching task of theologians as scholars.

And this is the infallibility which the Roman Pontiff, the head of the college of bishops, enjoys in virtue of his office, when, as the supreme shepherd and teacher of all the faithful, who confirms his brethren in their faith, by a definitive act he proclaims a doctrine of faith or morals.

* The Catholic doctrine of the indefectibility of the Church, which appeals to Christ's promise to the Apostle Peter in (" You are Peter ( the Rock ), and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it ") excludes the possibility that the Catholic bishops around the world and the Pope with whom they are in communion would succumb to heresy and fall from office.

This included decrees on the pastoral office of bishops ( Christus Dominus ), the life of persons in religious orders ( expanded and modified from earlier sessions, finally titled Perfectæ Caritatis ), education for the priesthood ( Optatam Totius ), Christian education ( Gravissimum Educationis ), and the role of the laity ( Apostolicam Actuositatem ).

Norman clergy were appointed to replace the deposed bishops and abbots, and at the end of the process, only two native English bishops remained in office, along with several continental prelates appointed by Edward the Confessor.

A bishop holds the highest office of the church ( there is no Patriarch or Pope over bishops ).

He clashed with his bishops, with his nephew-by-marriage, and with the papacy, but managed to eliminate the archiepiscopal debt which he had inherited on taking office.

When a number of bishops refused to pay, they were suspended from office.

Clerics such as Germanus of Auxerre accused some British bishops of the heresy of Pelagianism and sought their removal from office.

Similarly, the defenses of the right belief and worship of the church resided in the bishops, and Protestants theorize that the process of unifying the doctrine of the Church also concentrated power into their own hands ( see also Ignatius of Antioch, who advocated a powerful bishop ), and made their office an instrument of power coveted by ambitious men.

The lack of evidence should not obscure the fact that Bede, who was after all a contemporary chronicler, summarized the situation of England in 731 by listing the bishops in office in southern England, and adding that " all these provinces, together with the others south of the river Humber and their kings, are subject to Æthelbald, King of the Mercians.

The reason for this is that bishops in Methodist polity are not ordained to the higher office but remain elders who are simply appointed to the ministry of a bishop.

Internally, members of the priesthood do not use The Reverend as a style, but are generally known as " brother " or " sister " or by their specific priesthood office (" deacon ", " teacher " or " priest " are often appended after the person's name, instead of, for example, " Deacon John Adams " or " Deacon Adams ", and generally only in written form ; in contrast, elders, bishops, evangelists, apostles, etc.

The pope imposed various sanctions on England and John ; at one point de Gray was one of only two bishops still legitimately holding office in England.

With high solemnity he said the office in Latin on Easter Day, communicating with all the bishops of the East except Patriarch Timothy of Alexandria, the declared enemy of Chalcedon.

Church sidesmen or dodsmen bear sticks or rods or wands of office ; bishops may use a crozier or crook.

In 1692 he became chaplain to Edward Stillingfleet, bishop of Worcester, and for his support of the ruling party in a controversy with Henry Dodwell regarding the non-juring bishops he was appointed chaplain to Archbishop John Tillotson, an office which he continued to hold under Thomas Tenison.

His family name was Liebhard, but he was generally called Kammermeister, previous members of his family having held the office of chamberlain ( camerarius ) to the bishops of Bamberg.