The second Council of Nicaea, AD 787, recognized the right of abbots to ordain their monks to the inferior orders below the diaconate, a power usually reserved to bishops.

In 2003 the issue of the limitation of the right of a bishop to ordain candidates of his choice gave rise to a differences of opinions which resulted in two groups: a " traditional " and a more " liberal " one.

He asserted the right to ordain in Bithynia, and put it in practice at Nicaea in 425, a year before he died.

According to Canon 355 ( from the Latin Code of Canon Law 1983 ), if the newly elected Supreme Pontiff is not already a bishop, it is the right of the Dean to ordain him as such.

In 1397 the abbot of St Osgyth was granted the right to wear a mitre and give the solemn benediction, and, more singularly, the right to ordain priests, conferred by Pope Boniface IX.

The archbishop in Lund ( which at that time belonged to Denmark ) was declared primate of Sweden, meaning it was his right to select and ordain the Uppsala archbishop by handing him the pallium.

In 1538 twenty-five rabbis met in assembly at Safed and ordained Berab, giving him the right to ordain any number of others, who would then form a Sanhedrin.

The Archbishop of Lund was declared primate of Uppsala, thereby given the right to ordain the Archbishop of Uppsala.

The government supports Islam by providing funds for mosque construction throughout the north ; it also exerts influence over the established Muslim hierarchy by retaining the right to appoint and dismiss imams in most northern mosques.

The Ministry of Religious Affairs coordinated with imams in certain regions to reduce religious extremism following reports that Salafist members called for the boycott of specific prayers, the division of mosques between Salafi and non-Salafi members, and the right to lead religious lessons and hold religious seminars.

The WT says, " As well as being preachers, women now have the right to lead groups on the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, and 15 Turkish provinces have women serving as deputy muftis — specialists on religious law who monitor the work of imams in mosques.

Other positions which seem to have been considered ghulū by early writers were the ( public ) condemnation ( sabb ) of Abu Bakr and Umar as usurpers of Ali's right to be a successor of Muhammad, and the notion that the true imams were infallible ( maʿṣūm ).

The National Union of Teachers suggested in 2008 that parents should have a right to have specific schooling in their own faith and that imams, rabbis and priests should be invited to offer religious instruction to pupils in all state schools.

This is done to indicate that the right to re-double belongs exclusively to the player who last accepted a double.

* The right to investigate and decide whether a king thus elected is worthy of the imperial dignity belongs to the pope, whose office it is to anoint, consecrate, and crown him ; otherwise it might happen that the pope would be obliged to anoint, consecrate, and Crown a king who was excommunicated, a heretic, or a pagan.

* He has usurped the prerogative of Jehovah himself, claiming it as his right to assign for her a sphere of action, when that belongs to her conscience and her God.

The flag on the right reads ' The water ... belongs to all '

Therefore " all Scripture is divinely inspired and has its use for teaching the truth and refuting error, for reformation of manners and discipline in right living, so that the man who belongs to God may be efficient and equipped for good work of every kind " ( 2 Tim.

When confronted about a female ’ s right to preach, she responded that “ all the children, both male and female, must be subject to their parents ; and the woman, being second, must be subject to her husband, who is the first ; but when the man is gone, the right of government belongs to the woman: So is the family of Christ .”

Geomorphologically, the Westerwald belongs to the Rheinisches Schiefergebirge ( Rhenish Slate Mountains ), which forms the greater part of that range ’ s eastern half on the Rhine ’ s right bank.

When Esau sold the birthright of the first born to Jacob, Rashi explains that the priesthood was sold along with it, because by right the priesthood belongs to the first-born.

" It is your right to hold fast to your rights and laws and bear only the burdens the law allows, but you must also accept that I am free to do with mine what I will, and I forbid you to let your swine graze in Halland's Great Forest which belongs to me!

The figure at right illustrates a finite state machine, which belongs to one well-known variety of automaton.

belongs to's null space and is sometimes called a ( right ) null vector of

The town of Klein-Schönberg, which belongs to Tafers, and the village of Uebewil, which belongs to Düdingen, are located right on the eastern edge of town.

In accordance with tradition, the right of consecration belongs to the Dean of the College of Cardinals, in his absence to the Subdean, and in the absence of both of these, to the senior Cardinal Bishop.

It is the title mandated for use by the heir apparent when in Scotland, in preference to the English titles Duke of Cornwall ( which also belongs to the eldest living son of the monarch, when and only when he is also heir apparent, by right ) and Prince of Wales ( traditionally granted to the heir apparent ).

" The catechism says, " The right to the exercise of freedom belongs to everyone because it is inseparable from his or her dignity as a human person.

Luxury vehicle makers may either be stand-alone companies in their own right, such as BMW and Mercedes, or a division / subsidiary of a mass market automaker ( e. g., Lexus belongs to Toyota ).

The Declaration further stated that " his Majesty has no right to cede these Islands to any power ... if he chooses to withdraw his protection, and abandon his sovereignty, the right of electing another sovereign, or of the governing of these Islands, belongs to us, the inhabitants and aborigines alone, and without control.

( Note however that Jim Wallis denies that his Sojouners organization belongs to either the right or left.

While the same reviewer found the spa disappointing, she gave highest marks to the hotel's personalised service, the Savoy Tea, afternoon tea in the Thames Foyer, and the Beaufort bar, concluding: " The Savoy is back where it belongs – right on top.

It interpreted the Supreme Court's Jones ruling to hold that the right to association involved in a dispute over a primary — and thus, standing to sue — belongs to a political party, not an individual voter.

Despite the party's name, the PSD belongs to the centre-right, to the right of the Socialist Party and the left of the People's Party.

He paused only long enough to ascertain that Jess's buckskin was still missing and that his own gray was all right, then climbed through a back window and dropped to the ground outside.

Maybe Lou was only unconscious, but right then I thought he must be dead.

`` There's only one thing to move him fast, and we have it right here in this very store ''.

He need only pick up one of the two red telephone receivers at his extreme left, right next to the big red button marked alert.

As was only natural he confided his searchings to Ann, conceding ruefully that it certainly looked as if their own Congregationalists were wrong and the Baptists right.

A week in arrears, and without means to pay, I must go, it is the only right thing.

It usually turned out well for him because either he liked the right people or there were only a few wrong people in the town.

The only real problem is to devise a plan whereby the owners of the above-water land can develop their property without the public losing its underwater land and the right to its development for public use and enjoyment.

To achieve this destiny, acts as well as words are needed -- not only acts that lead to physical strength but also acts that lead to strength based on right doing and respect.

When we become firm enough to stand for those ideals which we know to be right, when we become hard enough to refuse to aid nations which do not permit self-determination, when we become strong enough to resist any more drifts towards socialism in our own Nation, when we recognize that our enemy is Communism not war, and when we realize that concessions to Communists do not insure peace or freedom, then, and only then will we no longer be `` soft ''.

I like hay for this and apply it so that only the tops of the plants show right after a good frost.

He did not really listen to others, had little interest in their ideas, and wanted to have his own way -- which was the only right way.

The fence, his only refuge when the metal death came roaring at him, was made of rails, all right, but the rails were protected by a thick screening of barbed wire that would rip his flesh if he pressed against it.

The boy had, apparently -- if Mrs. MacReady was right in what she had told Mullins -- only in recent months been forced to give up college, to work as a busboy.

If to be a Christian means to say yes where I otherwise say no, or where I do not have the right to say anything at all, then my only choice is to refuse to be a Christian.

It will be recalled from the discussion in Section 7 that the position of the `` right '', as represented by Barth, rests on the following thesis: The only tenable alternative to Bultmann's position is a theology that ( 1 ) rejects or at least qualifies his unconditioned demand for demythologization and existential interpretation ; ;

Mr. Philip Toynbee affirms at one point that if he shared the anticipations of Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four, if he believed Communism was not only evil but `` also irredeemably evil '', then he might `` think it right to do anything rather than to take the risk of a communist world.

It has a fast pace, excellent music, expert direction, and not only a good comedian, but an appealing person in his own right, Mr. Berman.

His matchmaking is, naturally, incidental, and it only serves Flynn right when a determined widow takes him by the ear and leads him off to matrimony.

:" for a bad custom has prevailed amongst the clergy, of appointing the most powerful people of a parish stewards, or, rather, patrons, of their churches ; who, in process of time, from a desire of gain, have usurped the whole right, appropriating to their own use the possession of all the lands, leaving only to the clergy the altars, with their tenths and oblations, and assigning even these to their sons and relations in the church.

The right to use only a title as a legal signature is only permitted to bishops, Peers of the Realm and peers by courtesy.

The local nobility had the right to hold the low court in only about one fifth of the territory.

As a consequence, it was only in 1836 that England allowed suspects of felonies the right to have legal counsel ( the Prisoners ' Counsel Act 1836 ).

He occupies a middle position between the Tannaim and the Amoraim, and is accorded the right, rarely conceded to one who is only an ' amora, of disputing the opinion of a tanna ( Bava Batra 42a and elsewhere ).