- c****piscope or c****piscopus (plural
c****piscopi) is
taken from the Gr**** χωρεπίσκοπος and
means "rural bishop".
C****piscopi are
first mentioned by Eusebius...
-
ordination had
reserved the
right to take a wife. The
thirteenth forbids c****piscopi to
ordain presbyters or deacons. The
sixteenth canon brackets the Christians...
-
forbade c****piscopi (clergy in
country parts who were of
lower rank than the
bishops of cities) to
ordain deacons or priests.
C****piscopi seem to have...
- bishop, priest, deacon, subdeacon, lector, and singer.
There are many
c****piscopi, not
ordained bishop. It will be seen, then, that the
relatively small...
-
Baghdad on 7 May 780. The
names of
several higher clergy (one bishop, two
c****piscopi and two archdeacons) and
around seventy monks or
priests are listed....
- to city
priests the
precedence over
country priests xiv.
permitting C****piscopi to
celebrate the
sacraments xv.
requiring that
there be
seven deacons...
-
publication now in the
public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "
C****piscopi".
Catholic Encyclopedia. New York:
Robert Appleton Company. Papadakis...
- over
which he presides. Consequently, the
powers of
country bishops (
c****piscopi) are curtailed, and
direct recourse to the
emperor is forbidden. The...
-
because of this they
ordain for
these priests who are
protopopes and
c****piscopi" (Syntagma, III, 142).
There are
cases in
which a
protopope in a remote...
-
predecessor church was the
administrative centre of the
missionary bishops - "
c****piscopi" - of
Carinthia from the 8th
century to 945 and
similar in
status to...
