" Venerable / Heroic in Virtue " When enough information has been gathered, the congregation will recommend to the pope that he make a proclamation of the Servant of God's heroic virtue ( that is, that the servant exhibited the theological virtues of faith, hope and charity, and the cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance, to a heroic degree ).

Only the presbytery ( not a congregation, session, synod, or General Assembly ) has the responsibility and authority to ordain church members to the Ministry of Word and Sacrament, to install Ministers of Word and Sacrament to ( and / or remove them from ) congregations, and to remove a minister from the Ministry of Word and Sacrament.

The priest then sprinkles Rosewater and fresh Rose petals all over the tomb, the congregation, and the temple / church.

Precisely what the Bar / Bat Mitzvah should lead during the service varies in Judaism's different denominations and from one congregation to another and is not fixed by Jewish law.

Gabrielle / Sister Luke is stretched between her desire to be faithful to the rule of her congregation and her desire to be a nurse.

After that, the priest, vested in a cope of the color of the day, while the choir sings an antiphon and a verse of Psalm 50 / 51 or 117 / 118, sprinkles with the holy water the altar three times, and then the clergy and the congregation.

Here one or two people could pray without being part of a communion / congregation.

The church college / university, while not a local congregation, is an integral part of the church ; it is an expression of the church.

* by the congregation as a Lay Preacher ; and / or

Instead, he appointed the Sri Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh holy book, as his successor as Guru instead of a possibly fallible human ; and due to the faith's belief in complete equality, women can participate in any religious function and / or perform any Sikh ceremony and / or lead the congregation in prayer.

* 2007: The synod of the Christian Reformed Church voted 112-70 to allow any Christian Reformed Church congregation that wishes to do so to ordain women as ministers, elders, deacons and / or ministry associates ; since 1995, congregations and regional church bodies called " classes " already had the option of ordaining women, and 26 of the 47 classes had exercised it before the vote in June.

Clarke headed the church in Newport which was Puritan / Separatist congregation, but he had a religious and political falling out with Coddington.

This proclamation was highly inappropriate at the time because of the negotiations for the Spanish marriage / In February 1624 he received an order from the English privy council to refrain from more extreme measures than preventing the erection of religious houses and the congregation of unlawful assemblies.

After his studies he went in 1755 as a tutor to Stockholm, where he spent a year and a half as tutor in the family of the minister of the German congregation, and during 1756 / 1757 in Uppsala, studying Old Norse and Gothic with the philologist Johan Ihre, then again in Stockholm as secretary of a German merchant.

:* entry into the body of Christ at large, and hence, the only viable entry into the membership of a local congregation of the Independent Christian Churches and Churches of Christ ( as in the Church of Christ ( non-instrumental ), a candidate for membership is not usually required to be re-baptized if they have previously been " baptized into Christ " in accordance with the above general understanding and / or guidelines ) 4: 5.

A sexton is a church, congregation, or synagogue officer charged with the maintenance of its buildings and / or the surrounding graveyard.

Ardaas is an informal talk / request by an individual / congregation, with a specific objective, and with faith for its fulfillment to the Almighty through the Guru.

A congregation issues a call for the pastor's service, but this call must be ratified by the local presbytery.

If the congregation does not have an installed pastor, the Presbytery appoints a minister member or elected member of the presbytery as moderator with the concurrence of the local church session.

The congregation as a whole has only the responsibility to vote on: 1 ) the call of the pastor ( subject to presbytery approval ) and the terms of call ( the church's provision for compensating and caring for the pastor ); 2 ) the election of its own officers ( elders & deacons ); 3 ) buying, mortgaging, or selling real property.

A presbytery is formed by all the congregations and the Ministers of Word and Sacrament in a geographic area together with elders selected ( proportional to congregation size ) from each of the congregations.

Bound versions are published bi-annually with the minutes of the General Assembly .</ ref > A pastor cannot be a member of the congregation he or she serves as pastor because his or her primary ecclesiastical accountability lies with the presbytery.

Members of the congregation generally choose their own pastor with the assistance and support of the presbytery.

The presbytery must approve the choice and officially install the pastor at the congregation.

Additionally, the presbytery must approve if either the congregation or the pastor wishes to dissolve that pastoral relationship.

This clause does not prevent particular churches from leaving the denomination, but if they do, they may not be entitled to any physical assets of that congregation unless by agreement with the presbytery.

Ordinarily, teaching elders are installed by a presbytery as pastor of a congregation.

Ruling elders, after receiving training, may be commissioned by a presbytery to serve as a pastor of a congregation, as well as preach and administer sacraments.

In contrast to the other two forms, authority in the presbyterian polity flows both from the top down ( as higher assemblies exercise limited but important authority over individual congregations, e. g., only the presbytery can ordain ministers, install pastors, and start up, close, and approve relocating a congregation ) and from the bottom up ( e. g., the moderator and officers are not appointed from above but are rather elected by and from among the members of the assembly ).

* Preaching ( the ministry of the Word ) and the administration of the sacraments is ordinarily entrusted to specially trained elders ( known as ministers of the Word and Sacrament, sometimes called " teaching elders ") in each local congregation, approved for these tasks by a governing presbytery, or classis, and called by the local congregation.

The PCA is generally less theologically conservative than the Orthodox Presbyterian Church ( which split from mainline Presbyterianism much earlier ), but more conservative than the Evangelical Presbyterian Church ( which split from the mainline more recently ), though the differences can vary from presbytery to presbytery and even congregation to congregation.

He was licensed as a preacher by the presbytery of Dunkeld, and soon afterwards ordained by that of Dundee as minister of the parish of Tealing ( 1719 ), where his preaching soon drew a large congregation.

Today's presbytery of the congregation bears the unusual name in, literally in Cathedral College, thus recalling the history of the church as collegiate church.

His excommunication by the presbytery of London in 1830 for publishing his doctrines of the humanity of Jesus Christ, and the condemnation of these opinions by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in the following year, were secondary episodes that only affected the main issue of his career insofar as they further isolated him from the sympathy of the church ; but the irregularities connected with the manifestation of the gifts gradually estranged the majority of his own congregation, and on the complaint of the trustees to the presbytery of London, whose authority they had formerly rejected, he was declared unfit to remain the minister of the National Scotch Church of Regent Square.

Each congregation elects churchwardens and delegates who, together with the clergy, constitute the diocesan synod and annual Convocation.

Each Province is governed by a synod, made up of representatives from each congregation plus ex officio members.

Finding himself victorious, Symmachus proceeded to call a synod held at Rome on March 1, 499, which was attended by 72 bishops and all of the Roman clergy, with the aim of confirming that his congregation accepted the king's judgment, as well as ensuring in the future there would be no rioting or illegal canvassing at election time.

The bishop is elected to a six year term by the synod assembly which meets every year and consists of all " rostered " ministers assigned to the synod and lay representatives from each congregation.

The bishop is elected to a six year term by the synod assembly which meets every year and consists of all " rostered " ministers assigned to the synod and lay representatives from each congregation.

Yearly, by demand of the ELCA constitution, the synod meets together with all rostered leaders ( clergy, associates in ministry, deacons, deaconesses, diaconal ministers ) as well as up to two representatives from each congregation ( more for larger congregations ) for Synod Assembly.

In 1441 Pope Eugene IV merged them into one congregation called " Congregatio Sancti Ambrosii ad Nemus ", made the original house the main seat, and laid down a system of government whereby a general chapter met every three years, elected the priors who stayed in office till the next chapter.

Their houses, scattered throughout Lombardy and Venetia, were united into a congregation by St Pius V, under the Rule of St Augustine with a mother-house, residence of the prioress general, at Pavia.

The General Minister and President ( GMP ) is the designated leader for the General Church, but does not have the administrative authority to direct any of the general church agencies other than “ The Office of General Minister and President .” The GMP has influence that derives from the respect of the church much as the pastor of a local church leads a local congregation.

Though a congregation of bishops assembled at Paris in December 1761 recommended no action, Louis XV of France ( 1715 – 74 ) promulgated a royal order permitting the Society to remain in the kingdom, with the proviso that certain essentially liberalising changes in their institution satisfy the Parlement with a French Jesuit vicar-general who should be independent of the general in Rome.

Opposite the altar, at first-floor level, is the royal pew where the royal family would attend services apart from the general congregation seated below.

When disagreements arise regarding the correct interpretation of New Testament passages or general congregation issues, local congregations go to their regional district conference for resolution.

Every decision made by three of these " deputations " — and in each of them the lower clergy formed the majority — received ratification for the sake of form in general congregation, and if necessary led to decrees promulgated in session.

The discourse was presented to a congregation of probably more than twenty thousand Latter-day Saints at a general conference held shortly after the funeral service of Elder King Follett, who had died on March 9, 1844 of accidental injuries.

The purpose of the narthex was to allow those not eligible for admittance into the general congregation ( particularly catechumens and penitents ) to hear and partake in the service.

A small body left in 1993 after a division in the church led to another church being formed by a group that felt that its congregation was led by God to appoint Robert J. Pruitt as their general overseer.

The Spiritual Quixote was a satire of John Wesley, George Whitefield, and Methodism in general, which he saw as a threat to his Anglican congregation.

Usually Small is drawn into the events when they involve a member of his congregation or Barnard's Crossing's Jewish community in general.

Weekly service were held consonant with the Trust directive, consisting of three successive parts: recitation of the Vedas by Telugu Brahmins in the closed apartment exclusively before the Brahmin members of the congregation, reading and exposition of the Upanishads for the general audience, and singing of hymns.

If the decisions were favourable, the general meeting of the congregation was followed by a decree, confirmed by the pope, in which it was announced that there was proof of miracles.

the ante-preparatory, preparatory, and general, was at a later time usually conducted, through a dispensation to be had in each instance from the sovereign pontiff, in a single congregation known as particularis, or special.

Martine's former suitor, Lorens, now a famous general married to a member of the Queen's court, reappears as one of the guests with his aunt, the local lady of the manor and a member of the old pastor's congregation.

In a March 2005 article it states the group is composed primarily of Sunnis with a much smaller, but still present, Shiite congregation and, in general, is " inclusive Islamic organization with Iraqi nationalist tendencies.

This was the start of a general tumult with much of the congregation shouting abuse and throwing Bibles, stools, sticks and stones.

Typically those Pentecostals who run the church aisles do not do so unless they feel that they are overwhelmed by the presence of the Holy Spirit at a point in the service when the congregation in general is sensing His moving.

The old orders had no provincial superiors ; even when the monasteries were united to form congregations, the arch-abbot of each congregation was in the position of a superior general whose powers were limited to particular cases, almost like the powers of a metropolitan archbishop over the dioceses of his suffragans.

He and the seven other Melkite bishops present voted non placet at the general congregation and left Rome prior to the adoption of the dogmatic constitution Pastor Aeternus on papal infallibility.

A congregation was started at Ermelo by Cachet in 1870, and was recognised by the 5th annual general meeting of the church in April 1872.