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  • and plebeian candidates, unsettled some episcopal elections. At the same time, fourth century emperors now expected to confirm each new pope. ...
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  • that the same Nestorius is excluded from all episcopal dignity and from every assembly of bishops." This sentence received 198 signatures ...
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  • The Episcopal See at Armagh was organized by St. Patrick. The choice of Armagh may have been determined by the presence of a powerful king. There ...
    14 KB (2,321 words) - 00:49, 23 December 2022
  • shape of the established Church of Scotland as non-episcopal. The Scots opposed bishops for both theological and political reasons, while the King saw ...
    14 KB (2,082 words) - 21:03, 3 November 2022
  • and neither was kneeling at the communion. Episcopal government was of course acknowledged; but Knox held his commission, as a reformed preacher ...
    27 KB (4,483 words) - 14:37, 18 August 2023
  • matters should be sent from the local Episcopal tribunal to the apostolic see at Rome, including ordinations of the clergy, questions of celibacy ...
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  • Place is also the name for the location of the episcopal throne, set in the center of the back of the apse of a temple's sanctuary. In larger ...
    15 KB (2,332 words) - 22:24, 2 May 2024
  • Maronites are members of one of the Syriac Eastern Catholic Churches, with a heritage reaching back to Saint Maron in the early fifth century ...
    14 KB (2,092 words) - 16:35, 27 January 2022
  • His mother's father had been a Methodist Episcopal pastor. His father, Alfred Sloan, Sr., was a merchant whose business had become so profitable ...
    14 KB (2,147 words) - 18:05, 20 July 2023
  • Pauli Murray, the first African American female Episcopal priest. The first issue that NOW tackled was helping to enforce the ending of sex discrimination ...
    14 KB (2,151 words) - 18:01, 29 September 2023
  • was much less influential in the Episcopal Church, which then dominated ... a group which split from the Methodist Episcopal Church in the 1860s. ...
    36 KB (5,445 words) - 06:28, 14 June 2023
  • fourth century, possibly as a result of an episcopal edict commanding their destruction. They were discovered by Arab peasants in Egypt digging for ...
    17 KB (2,741 words) - 10:24, 29 January 2024
  • church governance, like the Catholics, was episcopal. According to Socrates, their bishops at Constantinople and elsewhere were highly esteemed, no ...
    17 KB (2,510 words) - 22:16, 16 November 2022
  • to Protestant rites of the Scottish Episcopal Church. Thus, the chapel switched from Roman Catholic to Protestant hands. Many legends became associated ...
    15 KB (2,311 words) - 22:26, 16 December 2022
  • J. M. Bray, pastor of the Sugar Grove Methodist Episcopal Church, began an annual camp meeting that still meets today as the Hollow Rock Holiness Camp ...
    15 KB (2,238 words) - 18:58, 25 November 2023
  • discussed the whole question of episcopal authority in a long letter (Letter cxxvii, Rob. Grosseteste Epistolæ, Rolls Series, 1861) to the dean ...
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  • church. Many Protest churches come to reject the episcopal model in ecclesiological. Some adopted presbyterian government—involving a council of elders—while ...
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  • * 1887–1893: Episcopal palace at Astorga, Spain * 1889–1894: Colegio Teresiano * 1891–1893: Outer walls of the absis of the Sagrada Família ...
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  • In 865 Bishop Adalwin is found exercising all Episcopal rights there, and the administration under him was in the hands of the archpriest Riehbald. ...
    33 KB (4,701 words) - 20:51, 17 April 2023
  • on Capitol Hill. He is buried at Indian Hill Episcopal Church Cemetery in Cincinnati. In 1957, a committee led by Senator John F. Kennedy selected ...
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