How To Use Episcopate In A Sentence

  • There are three forms of this sacrament, also called sacramental orders, namely diaconate, priesthood and episcopate. they are not, however, three sacraments, but only one sacrament that is separately administered with three successively higher sacramental effects. Latest Articles
  • Does the historic episcopate imply or necessitate a conciliar way of decision-making, rather than an individualistic one?
  • The term emancipation is also applied to the release of a secular ecclesiastic from his diocese, or of a regular from obedience and submission to his former superior, because of election to the episcopate. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
  • It was the Archbishop of Canterbury's misfortune to have the issue of gay clergy - the nomination of Jeffrey John as Bishop of Reading - 'come up' at the very start of his archiepiscopate. Just Williams
  • If the episcopate * as an office * is the problem then what are we saying?
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  • The Church Society rejected any suggestion the episcopate should be open to women, and said their ordination had damaged the Anglican Church.
  • A person is ordained into the historic episcopate, but does not ‘receive’ it.
  • The promulgation of the infallibility of the Pontiff and the universality of his episcopate reinforced this ultramontane dogma at the First Vatican Council.
  • Teilo returned to Wales, and is said to have been elected to the archiepiscopate vacant by the death of St. David, and to have transferred it from Menevia (q.v.) to Llandaff (q.v.); but the more general modern opinion seems to be that in Wales at that epoch the episcopate was not yet diocesan. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
  • Under the courtly archiepiscopate of Nectarius the clergy of Constantinople became utterly corrupt and utterly worldly; but then, Nectarius was such a good manager — he kept everything so quiet, and he gave such good dinners! Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
  • His anniversary was kept at Canterbury on 10 November, but there is uncertainty as to the year of his death, though 627, the commonly received date, would appear to be correct, especially as it fits in with the period of three years usually assigned by the chroniclers to his archiepiscopate. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
  • He had obligations to the universal episcopate which had to act in harmony for the unity of the church.
  • V of Wied in the reorganization and and adjustment of the ecclesiastical and civil law in the electoral province, and was the first to determine the jurisdiction of the archiepiscopate The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
  • It is a commonplace to associate the low view of the episcopate not only with latitudinarians, but also with nineteenth-century evangelicals.
  • Admitting the fact that in the West at any rate this is an unusual thing and that the ordinary normal method of extending the Episcopate is in the diocesan system, we must not forget that other methods have been used and have not been condemned by the Church as uncatholic. Memorial of the Convocation of the Colored People in the Diocese of North Carolina Presented to the Diocesan Convention of 1916
  • One epigram speaks obscurely of the destruction of the idols of Alexandria by the Christian populace in the archiepiscopate of Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology
  • He had obligations to the universal episcopate which had to act in harmony for the unity of the church.
  • Meanwhile, there is not so much as a sentence, or even a clause, about the woebegone state of the episcopate, and its role in hampering the Church's mission.
  • These were: (1) the Scriptures as the Word of God, (2) the Nicene Creed as a sufficient statement of faith, (3) the dominical sacraments, and (4) the historic episcopate. Archive 2007-06-01
  • The ecclesiastical seminary, first established at San Lúcar de Barrameda, in 1830 in the archiepiscopate of Cardinal Francisco Javier de The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
  • Now I make this point not just to add a sort of anorakish-footnote to the debate, but so that the episcopate that we are discussing comes a little more clearly into focus for us, in connection to many of the issues that have already been touched upon. Speech to General Synod on Women Bishops
  • Nothelm consecrated three bishops during his archiepiscopate and agreed to the division of the Mercian diocese.
  • And on the Anglican side there was a corresponding willingness to consider the complementing and strengthening of the episcopate in Anglican churches by ensuring the corporate functions of episcope in the Presbyterian Orders. Lambeth and Church Unity
  • Tulchan system by abolishing the Episcopate and requiring all bishops to demit their office and give in their submission to the provincial synods. Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series
  • You remember that roughly it was this: that any corporate reunion can only come in the acceptance of the historical Episcopate; but that the conception and use of Episcopacy in the Church has been a limited one: there are many ways of regarding and using bishops besides the monarchical or "prelatical" way exemplified by the Church of England. The War and Unity Being Lectures Delivered At The Local Lectures Summer Meeting Of The University Of Cambridge, 1918
  • Instead it called for ‘further theological study on the episcopate, focusing on the issues that need to be addressed in preparation for the debate on women in the episcopate of the Church of England’.
  • Chrysostom with a heavier weight than the work of his archiepiscopate. Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
  • In its place is the miter, the representation par excellence of the episcopate.
  • In its place is the miter, the representation par excellence of the episcopate.
  • Sabina came as papal legate to Sweden during the archiepiscopate of The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
  • When, as occurs at times, a priest of the prelature's clergy is called by the Holy Father to the episcopate, the same thing happens as with any diocesan priest: He ceases to be incardinated in the ecclesiastical circumscription from which he comes, although he continues to receive spiritual assistance from the prelature. Archive 2008-03-30
  • The motto ‘Be Not Afraid’ has been chosen by the Archbishop as the personal motif of his archiepiscopate.
  • Gone were the lavish sophisticated dinner-parties of Dr Alex Jardine's pre-war episcopate. ULTIMATE PRIZES
  • The most notable visual effect of Laud's archiepiscopate was the removal of the communion tables from the body of the church to the east end, where they were placed on a dais and railed off.
  • His archiepiscopate was filled with quarrels with his cathedral clergy and, from 1207, with King John.
  • In the end, the episcopate came to the United States through the nonjuring bishops of the Episcopal Church in Scotland.
  • I don't know what Dave means by "episcopacy" either, but there's widespread scholarly agreement that the monarchical episcopate wasn't universal early on. Triablogue
  • The central tower of the cathedral, that fine example of decorated work, covered with its profusion of ball-flower ornament, was built by, or at any rate during the episcopate of, Giles de Braose (1200-1215), an ardent opponent of King John. Bell’s Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Hereford, A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See
  • 'Episcopatus unus est cuius a singulis in solidum pars tenetur' [The episcopate is one, each part of which is held by each one for the whole.] (De ecclesiae catholicae unitate, 1,5). Cardinal's Address on Women Bishops 'A Clear and Helpful Contribution'
  • Scotland had no territorial episcopate before the 12th century and no archbishoprics before the late 15th century.
  • The episcopate was not formed from the Apostolic order through the localization of the universal authority of the Apostles, but from the presbyteral (by elevation). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
  • It is this understanding that explains the fact that the so-called monarchic episcopate-one bishop in each Eucharistic community or Church-became generally accepted in the ancient Church. News from SVOTS.Edu
  • By his death, Theodore had built up the episcopate and created an organized, united church under Canterbury.
  • It is true that Jerome endeavoured to enhance the dignity of the priesthood at the expense of the episcopate and to refer the bishop's superiority "rather to ecclesiastical custom than to Divine regulation" (In Tit., i, 5: "Episcopi noverint se magis consuetudine quam dispositionis dominicæ veritate presbyteris esse majores"). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
  • A pluralist, able and fairly vigorous in the discharge of his duties, he was unfortunate in the political circumstances of his early episcopate.
  • Does the historic episcopate include the priesthood and diaconate, which are not mentioned in the Quadrilateral?
  • In December 1882, he was elevated to the archiepiscopate of Canterbury.
  • In two particular instances during the archiepiscopate of Cardinal Vaughan this point was raised and became the subject of correspondence between the cardinal and the Home Secretary. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock

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