- dioceses. The role or
office of the
bishop is
called episcopacy or the
episcopate. Organizationally,
several Christian denominations utilize ecclesiastical...
- The
historic or
historical episcopate comprises all
episcopates, that is, it is the
collective body of all the
bishops of a
group who are in
valid apostolic...
-
Episcopate can
refer to the rank or fact of
being a
bishop a
group of
bishops that
together form a
historical episcopate episcopal polity, a form of organization...
- The
Restoration was the
return of the
monarchy to
Scotland in 1660
after the
period of the Commonwealth, and the
subsequent three decades of
Scottish history...
-
abolished the
episcopates, and each
shire commissioner was
given their own vote. This
arrangement continued upon the
Restoration of the
Episcopates in 1662...
-
Investiture Controversy was resolved. He had
stormy relations with the
episcopates of his realm:
fighting with
Stephen of Bar,
bishop of Metz, and Adalberon...
- The
Polish Episcopal Conference or
Polish Bishops'
Conference (Polish:
Konferencja Episkopatu Polski or KEP) is the
central organ of the
Catholic Church...
- church-governors and deacons. However, this lack of
recognition for an
office of
episcopate distinct from that of a
presbyter did not
entail a
rejection of the validity...
-
Apostle in Rome near the end of Paul's life. The
earliest witness to the
episcopate of
Linus was Irenaeus, who in c. AD 180
wrote that "the
blessed apostles...
-
current Archbishop of the
Orthodox Church in America's
Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America. Born to a Romanian-American
family in Aurora, Illinois, he...
