How To Use Episcopal In A Sentence

That's like sending an Episcopalian to oversee the Vatican for 20 years.
Dr. Annalu Waller, a computer scientist and expert in augmentative and alternative communication, is also Scotland's first disabled woman Episcopalian priest. Archive 2007-05-01
On his arrival, M. Myriel was installed in the episcopal palace with the honors required by the Imperial decrees, which class a bishop immediately after a major-general.
Article IX called into question the right of episcopal conferences to oversee their own liturgical translations. Paul VI - The First Modern Pope
V with regard to episcopal elections, and passed several disciplinary decrees directed against existing abuses, such as simony and concubinage among the clergy. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux

The title of archbishop ceased to be used for these two sees of the episcopal church in Scotland after the revolution of 1688.
Clergy and lay deputies to a special convention of the diocese on November 7 voted to invite Bishop Duncan back into leadership of the diocese 50 days after the House of Bishops of The Episcopal Church voted to remove ( "depose") him. Stand Firm
At the same time, many contemporary Episcopal congregations clamor for more and more in-depth adult - education offerings.
Bishops' activities were confined to their own dioceses and monasteries exempted from episcopal interference.
They are autonomous, episcopal, Protestant Churches in fellowship with the Church of England.
Twentieth-cent. developments included women's ordination to the diaconate and the priesthood, making the Anglican church the first episcopal church to take this step.
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Much of the present book is devoted to ministerial orders, with an essay on the diaconate and several extended discussions on the episcopal office and the meaning of apostolic succession.
The larger southern Episcopal element was perfectly content to keep bishops three thousand miles away.
On Epiphany morning, the Lutheran-Episcopal full communion will be rendered official and celebrated at Washington's National Cathedral.
American Episcopalians maintain stubborn resistance to warnings by the world Anglican Communion that they have recklessly broken fellowship.
A brother had left the church several years earlier and become an Episcopalian.
The relentless search for new revenues during the Dutch war had led him in 1673 to seek an extension of the regalian rights whereby the crown enjoyed the revenues of vacant episcopal sees.
Two weeks later, Olsen participated in the Episcopalians' ordinations at St. James Cathedral.
Does that mean Catholics agree with him about episcopal authority, sexual morality, or the ordination of women?
The ornament which the bishop is wearing above the chasuble is the rationale, an episcopal humeral, a counterpart of the pallium, and like it worn over the chasuble. The Mater Ter Admirabilis
According to de Rossi the centre of episcopal administration before the Lateran was a The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
Confirmation branded its confirmands on their foreheads with the mark of episcopacy, and it was an in-your-face gesture to nonconformists and to others who held a low view of the episcopal office.
I have an Episcopalian Franciscan friend, a monk who has become a priest, and who took the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
Buffalo's Protestant founders, mainly Episcopalians and Presbyterians, originated in New England and eastern New York.
It figures for the first time in a Latin episcopal notitia, dating probably from the eleventh century, where it is given under the name of Legionum, between the Bishoprics of Diocæsarea and Capitolias The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
It would consist of twenty elected members and be permanently responsible for the liaison between the pope and the episcopal conferences. Paul VI - The First Modern Pope
Lutherans had agreed to the Episcopal practice of ordination by a bishop.
Programme S.TDY 6:30 27/10/93 Episcopalians in a moral dilemma over the appointment of woman priests.
He even goes to an Episcopalian church but he is under an illusion from which I pray he will be delivered.
Auden, who cannot have read many advice columns, was publicly known as a communicant of the Episcopal Church, a return in his celebrated genius to the church of his English boyhood. Funny as a Crutch
He had already acquired some ex-episcopal lands back in 1647-8, in settlement of earlier debts owing to him on the public faith.
Episcopalians and Methodists, and fools and fiddlers, and Papists and pie-bakers, and doctors and drugsters; by the shop-folk, that sell trash and trumpery at three prices — and so up got the bonny new Well, and down fell the honest auld town of Saint Ronan’s, where blithe decent folk had been heartsome eneugh for mony a day before ony o’ them were born, or ony sic vapouring fancies kittled in their cracked brains.” Saint Ronan's Well
It appears as if the most extreme of anti-episcopal theologies is now wedded to an American ecclesial body distinctive precisely through its commitment to ‘prelacy.’
By the way, as an Episcopalian I rather resent being called amoral for sharing in the happiness of various gay friends and relations. The Volokh Conspiracy » “Of All the Liars, That Have Ever Lived, Since Lying Was First Invented, [Members of the Other Party] Are the Greatest Liars”
This book is intended primarily for lay study groups in Episcopal parishes and Lutheran congregations.
The puritans of the Catholic Church, they opposed lax theology, excessive papal and episcopal power, and above all the influence of the Jesuits in Church and State.
This church has a strong past association with a well-known contemporary Scottish figure, Richard Holloway, formerly primus of the Episcopal Church and now more of a lay philosopher and social critic.
The biggest religious disputes here have actually been between Protestants: Episcopalians and Presbyterians, and between the various shades of the latter.
Farfa; Marianus Victorius (1572, for a few days), a distinguished writer and petrologist; Giorgio Bolognetti (1639), restored the episcopal palace and was distinguished for his charity; Gabrielle The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
Episcopal elections were not always peaceful, especially if tension arose between influential families or groups.
Shenouda subjected monasteries, long immune from episcopal control, to his papacy.
Because of its roots in the established Church of England, the Episcopal Church has long sought to play an establishmentarian role in the United States.
Not from a doctrinarian member of the Episcopal Church," Hood said. Mission Of Honor
Under the proposal, Lutherans would also accept the historic line of bishops within the Episcopal Church.
The newly consecrated candidates were to serve as missionary bishops to the United States, because of the perceived departure of the Episcopal Church from traditional Anglican standards on sexuality.
His arguments have to do with a reading of the Constitution of the Episcopal Church, the fact that the forming bodies of the Episcopal Church were state conventions (later called diocesan conventions) and that the first dioceses, like the first states, were present before the union called the General Convention and never gave authority to a supra-diocesan entity. PRELUDIUM
In Scotland this was probably last November, when Archbishop Keith Patrick O'Brien invested me, a Scottish Episcopalian, as a Knight of the Order of St Sylvester.
Alan Jones is Dean of Grace Episcopal Cathedral in San Francisco and an honorary canon of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres.
Neuhaus makes a common mistake in separating the episcopal conference from its ‘supporting institution,’ the bishops conference.
I came back from school and I had grown up in what they called the junior auxiliary of the Episcopal church and I took the leadership of the junior auxiliary. Oral History Interview with Josephine Wilkins, 1972. Interview G-0063. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
I decided that the archiepiscopal slap to 'Jim' made any further intervention on my part wholly redundant, but you wrapped it all up nicely. New look ( Same Old Moaner)
Filmer lost the end of the archiepiscopal compliment. Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells
Longtime Episcopalians remember the old days of Morning Prayer, but have no explanation for the change-other, perhaps, than that of making a change for change's sake.
Evangelicals are a sub-set of Christianity, a religion that includes Catholics, Episcopalians, liberal Protestants, Greek Orthodox, etc.
To all the obsessed foodies of the nation, fretting over the choice between Malpeque and bluepoint oysters for the stuffing, the Rev. Ed Miller of St. John's Episcopal Church in McLean, Va., has a word of advice, and it comes from Matthew 6: 31-33: "Therefore do not worry, saying 'what shall we eat?' or 'what shall we drink?' ... but seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness. Rites Of Comfort
Why had he been so determined to create a second see of archiepiscopal rank in the southern province in the first place?
In the end, the episcopate came to the United States through the nonjuring bishops of the Episcopal Church in Scotland.
It remains true, however, that although the episcopal and presbyteral (parochial) schools thus contributed to the education of the laity, the chief portion of the burden of lay education in the early Middle Ages was borne by the monasteries. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
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The extremely unedifying combination of the episcopal gutlessness on display in DC and the bureaucratic contempt for the flock on display here has a number of people livid.
Soon afterwards, Bishop Phillpotts extended his episcopal approval to this experiment.
He changed his denominational affiliation from his parents' Episcopal faith to his wife's Methodism.
But, for the modern Episcopalian, the country parson is probably an ideal figure, remote and more longed for than experienced.
The Chief Magistrate whom, in his touching letter to his clergy, the Episcopal Bishop of this State applies the high title "of the beloved and revered," is dead. A Discourse on the Death of President Lincoln
If the Welsh church has suffered from a bad historical press, it is as nothing compared to that endured by the episcopal established church in Ireland.
My own view is that of a person who was born into a family of Episcopalians whose allegiance to that church stretches as far back as anyone can remember.
Outside England, the Anglican Church is often referred to as the Episcopal Church.
Yet this does not mean that Bell saw no place in the church for the episcopal office, and instead sought to map the historical pedigree of an hierarchical system of ecclesiastical governance.
There is an especially repellent quotation highlighted in episcopal purple on the back cover.
The polity is likewise that of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the chief difference being the provision for a general convention as a constitutional lawmaking body, to be called only when there is under consideration a change in polity or name. Religious Bodies: 1906
Historically, periods of upheaval in the church have always seen a recovery led first by the religious or monastic orders; the diocesan clergy and episcopal hierarchy then follow suit, returning to orthodoxy.
A peculiar episcopal ornament is the _epigonation_. Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers
She was the first woman to rise to the position of suffragan, or assistant, bishop at the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts - a position previously reserved for men.
This summer, Episcopalians, United Methodists and Presbyterians will take up the issue at their individual conventions.
The new rector of the Scottish Episcopal Church in Orkney, Reverend Alison Duff, was installed into her charge at a service in Kirkwall on Wednesday night.
In Book VII, Hooker defends episcopal organization as being superior to the Presbyterian structure favored by most Puritans.
Five days later, the hierarchy issued an episcopal letter that reiterated the imperative for Catholics to embrace democracy and reject electoral fraud.
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While Episcopalianism stands at a crossroads at present, that which remains of their traditional liturgy has become almost unconsciously Catholicized in the past century.
Ketteler, and, after his death, the see was left vacant in consequence of the attitude of the government, the payment of the episcopal dotation was suspended in 1880 and numerous parishes (about one fourth) left without a pastor. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
So begins one of my favorite prayers, from the service for compline in the Episcopal prayer book.
You know, years ago when I was an Episcopalian, another member of the church used the church directory as a marketing tool for his small business, and started making cold calls using it.
Christus Dominus, the council's decree on bishops, would specifically mandate that every country have an episcopal conference.
Rev. Willie faces up to 15 years in the chokey after he broke the 8th Commandment by stealing $85,000 from St. Paul's Memorial Episcopal, the church where he worked. Dlisted - Be Very Afraid
In an episcopal church, the bishops should be the leaders. Times, Sunday Times
If they decide to split off from the Episcopal Church as now constituted, these groups have an excellent opportunity to survive and prosper.
GRISWOLD: ... and the overwhelming reality of the Episcopal Church is what I call the diverse center. CNN Transcript Jun 15, 2006
At last, their dispute came near to an open declaration of hostilities, the incensed episcopalian bestowing on the recusants the whole thunders of the commination, and receiving from them, in return, the denunciations of a Calvinistic excommunication. Old Mortality
Most divided are the moderate Protestant denominations, such as the Presbyterians, Episcopalians and Methodists.
He cites instances in which priests served as bishops without episcopal ordination, acting only with the potestas bestowed by the jurisdictional authority of Rome.
prophesyings," or the assemblies of the zealots in private houses, which, she apprehended, had become so many academies of fanaticism; and for this offence she had, by an order of the star chamber, sequestered him from his archiepiscopal function, and confined him to his own house. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I.
I flew from here to Indianapolis to address a conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Vicar-general of Constance, and was condemned by the episcopal court in that place to the loss of his canonicate at Zurich and to lifelong confinement. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
Following the Episcopal Church's triennial General Convention in Denver in July, both conservatives and liberals within the 2.5-million-member denomination claimed a partial victory.
They seem, nonetheless, to be anointed at this precarious juncture in the church's history to offer the leadership and vision so wanting in many episcopal and presbyteral circles.
This should be a sufficiently rich selection to keep readers busy through the warmer months and even to provide some relief during the triennial meeting of the General Convention of the Episcopal Church in July.
The ship arrived brandishing his archiepiscopal cross defiantly at the prow.
While Hampton has always been "undenominational," both its faculty and board of trustees have contained in abundance not only members of the Episcopal Church, but men and women of the highest and noblest type, creating an atmosphere in which the common and vulgar simply could not exist. History of the Afro-American Group of the Episcopal Church
If that happens, a historic opportunity will have been missed for the reform of the Church, and not least for the restoration of gravely damaged confidence in the Church's episcopal leadership.
Many ‘ordinary priests’, ministering to rural communities far removed from the episcopal and monastic centres, must have suffered as many hardships as the members of their flock.
Church of Scotland moderator, Reverend Andrew McLellan, and the primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church the Most Rev Bruce Cameron will attend ‘in a supporting role’ according to Scottish CND.
Because of their popish associations he also objected to the traditional episcopal vestments.
Wednesday night AA meeting was held in the living room of a small gray house owned by the Episcopalian church, arbored by live oaks, across from the massive stone outline of old Iberia High. Jolie Blon’s Bounce
The popes always upheld with earnestness the episcopal authority, and sought to free the inquisitional tribunals from every kind of arbitrariness and caprice. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
Meanwhile on the churchly front, he served as canonical counselor and defender of the first Episcopal women priests irregularly ordained.
The conversation usually revolves around questions about episcopal leadership and the role of the laity.
Independents, who believed that each local congregation of Christians should be practically free, excepting that "prelacy" (_i. e._, the episcopal form of church government) and "popery" (_i. e. A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
In large part, to talk about clergy deployment in the Episcopal church is to talk about pastoring congregations.
Also, McIlvaine ‘used his episcopal authority to limit processionals, surpliced choirs, and other musical innovations’.
In the past, the Episcopal Church's loose theology has allowed liberal and conservative parishioners, priests, and bishops to avoid major schisms.
ECS as good as a Episcopal Diocese of Long Island put over $200K in to renovating a space to capacitate AFC to offer protected as good as cool preserve during a site. Archive 2009-11-01
That the Anglican churches are episcopal churches is on the way to becoming a semi-official designation as well as a fact.
The Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway has been voted in as the new Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church by the Episcopal Synod earlier in the week.
Neither book examines in any detail how well or poorly bishops performed their episcopal duties in their dioceses.
He is the first prison inmate to become a candidate for ordination to the priesthood in the Episcopal Church.
Rajahmundry mills of Carnatic paper mills, Ltd., at present; S.A. T. C.; Mason; Pythian; Episcopalian. Alumni History of the University of North Carolina
How are we 'formed' in that particular kind of discipleship that is episcopal ministry? Archbishop Sets Out Thinking on Lambeth Conference 2008
married by an Episcopalian minister
This bishop officiated pontifically and gave his blessing to the people, before whom he appeared bearing the mitre, the crosier, and even the archiepiscopal cross. A Philosophical Dictionary
He had to deal with the rents of episcopal properties, to correspond with clerical claimants, and to be at home with the circumstances of underpaid vicars and perpetual curates with much less than 300 pounds a-year; but yet he was as jolly and pleasant at his desk as though he were busied about the collection of the malt tax, or wrote his letters to admirals and captains instead of to deans and prebendaries. He Knew He Was Right
And how does an episcopal “pastoral” introduction of blessings honour the moratorium better than a synodical legislation thereof? Weasel Words from Colin Johnson, Bishop of Toronto « Anglican Samizdat
Moreover, black Episcopalians have consistently held the Church's feet to the fire, and reminded it when its actions have been inconsistent with the principles it espoused.
The picture of the bishop in a red chimere is the Episcopalian bishop Michael Curry of the Diocese of North Carolina. Soundslide of Bishop Burbidge's Installation
Clergy and lay deputies to a special convention of the diocese on November 7 voted to invite Bishop Duncan back into leadership of the diocese 50 days after the House of Bishops of The Episcopal Church voted to remove ( "depose") him Anglican Mainstream
Programme S.TDY 6:30 27/10/93 Episcopalians in a moral dilemma over the appointment of woman priests.
Are you a Roman Catholic or an Episcopalian?
The organization constituted itself in January and elected as moderator the head of the Episcopal Diocese of New York.
Remain Faithful is committed to speak the truth in love, communicating clearly the position of faithful orthodox Episcopalians upholding the authority of Holy Scripture. What it means to remain faithful
Episcopalian; and Dr. Lavendar said to William King that he hoped there would be a match between the "theolog" and Philippa. The Voice
CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) - You may have walked or driven past the Grace Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston without noticing the rarity of the sound of a certain bell. WISTV - Local News RSS
Cutié, 41, now an Episcopal priest, hopes to answer that question in Dilemma: A Priest s Struggle with Faith and Love Celebra; 320 pages; $25.95, on... From Priest To Lover
The Roman Catholic Church still awards episcopal rings to bishops, and papal rings to popes and cardinals.
Florence Margaret Rose, Aug. 11, 1917; specialist in diseases of eye, ear, nose and throat; Philippine health service 1912-14; research Gulion leper colony 1915; British govt. service, Sandakau and Jesselton, B.N. Borneo, 1916-21; travel and study in Europe, 1921-23; Methodist Episcopal. Alumni History of the University of North Carolina
That episcopal ordination made one a member of the episcopal college was accepted in principle by the second session.
As a boy he had quit many things-the basketball team, the Episcopal youth group and always enjoyed the experience.
The bishops made no mention of the US bishops' statement or the opposition to the war by other western episcopal conferences or Catholic church leaders.
CutiÃ©, 41, now an Episcopal priest, hopes to answer that question in Dilemma: A Priest's Struggle with Faith and Love Celebra; 320 pages; $25.95, on... From Priest To Lover
When these ideas spread from Great Britain to the United States after the Civil War, they were initially adopted by proponents of the social gospel, usually Unitarians, liberal Congregationalists and Baptists, and Episcopalians.
It is one of the richest resources on baptism written for Episcopalians in print.
While doing this the idea of disarticulation at the hip came into my mind, and in a few months an Episcopal minister from Alabama came to me with a sarcoma of the thigh, requiring amputation at the hip, and the method worked perfectly. With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon
A century before Mozart, the virtuoso violinist and composer Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber was appointed to the music staff of the archiepiscopal court of Salzburg.
President George W. Bush was scheduled to visit the Episcopal Church outside Washington aspart of his campaign to restore his pathetic pollstandings. 'GEORGE W BUSH IS A SAINT'
The previous Archbishop, Anselm's old master Lanfranc, had died four years earlier, but the King, William Rufus, had left the see vacant in order to plunder the archiepiscopal revenues.
Edward gave successive popes few grounds for complaint with regard to episcopal appointments.
The College of Cardinals is divided into three orders: the episcopal order, to which belong those Cardinals to whom the Roman Pontiff assigns the title of a suburbicarian Church, and eastern-rite Patriarchs who are made members of the College of Cardinals; the presbyteral order, and the diaconal order. New Cardinal Bishop of Palestrina Taking Possession
Virginia in securing step by step the abolition of everything that savoured of religious oppression, involving at last the disestablishment and the disendowment of the Episcopal Church, was due in part to the fact that Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
Despite being a Scottish Episcopalian soon-to-be choirgirl, Lara also enjoyed listening to rock music and reading or writing books about anything and everything.
An Episcopalian, Miller is an outsider to the megachurch movement.
Scottish Text Society (Edinburgh) are of great value; and many episcopal registers and cartularies of the Scottish abbeys have been printed by the Bannatyne, Maitland, Spottiswoode, and other societies. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
The College of Cardinals is divided into three orders: the episcopal order, to which belong those Cardinals to whom the Roman Pontiff assigns the title of a suburbicarian Church, and eastern-rite Patriarchs who are made members of the College of Cardinals; the presbyteral order, and the diaconal order. New Cardinal Bishop of Palestrina Taking Possession
Their parents, dutiful slaveholding Episcopalians at Charleston, were tolerant enough to permit their daughters to teach the Negro children.
Latin.tom. v.p. 702) on the episcopal mitre of the popes, is ascribed to the gift of Constantine, or Clovis. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Some other Episcopalians have opted to disaffiliate rather than lose their buildings or spend years in expensive litigation. Twenty-First Century Excommunication
With a long white beard and wearing his episcopal miter he rides his gray horse over the rooftops. Santa Claus's Dutch Uncle
Quid enim superhumerale, quo humeri episcopi ornantur et onerntur, nisi episcopalis dignitatis onus significat? Hamilton: "A Liturgy of Reform"
The Baptists, Episcopalians, Methodists, and Presbyterians have each a seamen's Bethel,
The site acquired by Bishop Losinga was unusually large; he envisaged not only a cathedral but also a priory for 60 Benedictine monks and an episcopal palace.
The council's careful balancing of papal and episcopal authority did not seem intended to expand the church's infallible teaching to areas like contraception.
Rev Paul Harvie, the priest at St Salvador Episcopal Church in Dundee, where unhappy members of St Paul's Cathedral fled after fallouts with provost Miriam Byrne, agrees that baptisms carried out by Ms Byrne may not be valid.
The previous Archbishop, Anselm's old master Lanfranc, had died four years earlier, but the King, William Rufus, had left the see vacant in order to plunder the archiepiscopal revenues. Saint Anselm
It was somewhat dispiriting, to see this ancient archiepiscopal city now sadly deserted. Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
The academic air persists inside the archiepiscopal study, which, with its leaded windows, fireplace and comfy leather armchairs, could be home to an Oxford don. Archbishop's environment interview - 'Green Futures' magazine
We must suppose either that the bishops introduced directly by a positive precept as a liturgical pontifical badge a humeral cloth resembling the ordinary omophorion and called by that name, or that the civil omophorion was at first used by the bishops as a mere ornament without any special significance, but in the course of time gradually developed into a distinctively episcopal ornament, and finally assumed the character of an episcopal badge of office. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
Meanwhile on the churchly front, he served as canonical counselor and defender of the first Episcopal women priests irregularly ordained.
Lefebvre - former head of the Holy Ghost fathers - was excommunicated in 1988 when he presided at the episcopal ordination of four priests, in defiance of a directive from Rome.
After the Revolution of 1688, and on some occasions when the spirit of the Presbyterians had been unusually animated against their opponents, the Episcopal clergymen, who were chiefly non-jurors, were exposed to be mobbed, as we should now say, or rabbled, as the phrase then went, to expiate their political heresies. The Waverley
Jenkins, an Episcopalian, has no such inhibitions and here offers a spirited account of how deep, pervasive, and multifaceted is the elite culture's animus toward the Catholic Church.
There were also areas which were exempt from archidiaconal and episcopal jurisdiction, known as ‘peculiars’.
I joined the congregation of the local episcopal cathedral in Minneapolis on two consecutive Sundays, and spent lots of money on a new computer that I don't really need.
Late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Episcopalians searched the early Church for examples to prove to Baptists that infant baptism was ancient and proper.
Archbishop Jaenberht was outraged when Offa raised Lichfield to an archiepiscopal see, and the scheme was abandoned after the king's death on the grounds that it had been prompted by enmity towards the people of Kent.
The liturgically centered Episcopalians who see the trend coming are understandably interested in providing rites of commitment supported by the church.
Priests of the Roman Church have in past centuries found themselves, sometimes under episcopal direction, in earnest battle against perceived local superstitions and impious social customs connected with holy wells.
Readers of the nine bestselling Mitford novels awaited the publication of each novel, relishing the story of the bookish and bighearted Episcopal priest and the extraordinary fullness of his seemingly ordinary life. Home to Holly Springs by Jan Karon: Book summary
Perhaps the compromise of the customary amethyst, which is now most popularly used, for Episcopal rings, being a combination of the blue and the red, may typify a blending of more human qualities! Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance
While in Golden, he was ordained an Episcopal minister and later served residents in Colorado's mining camps during his scientific excursions.
On the same occasion, the pope gave Archbishop Carey a gold episcopal pectoral cross.
As Episcopalians, not having an ordained priest available meant we could not celebrate the Eucharist.
Most hagiography was intended to lead the forces of the sacred into well-defined channels connected with political power, be it episcopal, royal, or both.
This united body was still far behind other major Protestant groups such as Presbyterians, Methodists, Congregationalists, and Episcopals.
Down the steps of the altar is another "pivialista" who is carrying the archiepiscopal cross and two acolytes with candles ( "cantàri"). A View into the Pontifical Archiepiscopal Mass in the Ambrosian Rite
Peruse any illustrated Inferno, and you will find, among the pictured thieves, usurers, murderers, and traitors, numerous tonsured pates, episcopal miters, and papal tiaras.
I'm Episcopalian, so the closest I can come to atoning for people's sins -- unless I discover Jesus on my toast -- is wandering around contritely, taking responsibility for other people's actions. Virginia Thomas's Anita Hill apology demand
At the Hampton Court Conference of 1604, in which James presided over a meeting of bishops and Puritans, discussion was entirely about how to make the episcopal national Church more effectively evangelical.
Happy Epiphany to all who believe … I'm looking forward to the Feast of Lights service at our Episcopal parish tonight, myself! Royal Anecdotes
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The Reverend William Matheus, another member, was assistant rector at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, a bulwark of progressive social causes.
Instead of the possession of these lands being regarded as the apanage of the spiritual office, the acceptance of episcopal consecration was looked upon as the special condition or service upon which these lands were held from the king. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
Now the Episcopal Church has upped the ante: It has declared that if congregations break away and buy their sanctuaries, they must disaffiliate from any group that professes to be Anglican. Twenty-First Century Excommunication
He was a known quantity to the Episcopal Church elders.
Momma took copious notes from which I see that the Madonna and Child holy water basin was perfectly sweet, and the episcopal throne by Uervellesi in 1536 was the finest piece of tarsia work in the world, and the large bronze hanging lamp by Vincenzo Possento was the object which assisted Galileo to invent the oscillations of the pendulum. A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London')
On a cold Monday morning twenty miles to the east of Concord, the parish leadership at Trinity Episcopal Church in the city of Boston gathers for a Program and Ministry meeting, where they will coordinate the weekly goings-on at one of the largest Episcopal parishes in the country. American Grace
Episcopal elections were not always peaceful, especially if tension arose between influential families or groups.
What did I, a lapsed Episcopalian, know about vespers?
He should have followed Jesus's example, stridden into that cathedral in full archiepiscopal attire and commanded the renegade cleric and his lackeys to get out. Hugh Muir's diary
A friend who is a novice in an Episcopal religious order recently told me that she has no taste now for books of contemporary spirituality.
In order to assess whether this theological uncertainty is being dealt with, twice over a period of five months in the spring and summer of 2002 I wrote to the professors of homiletics at the eleven Episcopal seminaries.
They remained nearly a month in the ancient episcopal city, strolling out in the gloaming through the lonely, grass-grown streets with their crumbling palaces of the time of the Council; floating with the current down the river Rhine along its forest-clad banks; stopping to look at the tiny houses with red roofs and spacious arbors beneath which sang the bourgeoisie, stein in hand, with the Germanic joy of a subchanter, grave and reposeful. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan
Hooker maintains that episcopacy is the norm for ecclesiastical regiment and all must be prepared to accept it and remain obedient to episcopal authority.

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