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episcopate 1. the office, status, or term of office of a bishop 2. bishops collectively How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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While recognizing the ambiguity in the history of the emergence of the episcopate as a separate and higher office than that of the presbyterate (the bishop was preeminent over the presbyters), that Trent had not wished to go against Jerome, who had maintained that difference between the two was not by divine ordination, and that "in the history of the church there are instances of priests (i. The Report asked the Episcopal Church "to effect a moratorium on the election and consent to the consecration of any candidate to the episcopate who is living in a same-gender union until some new consensus in the Anglican Communion emerges. Rome--The doctrinal commission of the Spanish Episcopate has issued a rejection of the views of the Irish priest and writer Diarmuid O'Murchu, M. |
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