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• 2007 News
  Anglican Church of Australia to allow women bishops in some diocese ([http://www.worldnewsaustralia.com.au/region.php?id=140297 Episcopal Church of United States rejects gay bishops ([http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7013552.stm BBC News])
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• Catechism of the Catholic Church
  * [http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/index.htm US Conference of Catholic Bishops] (Second edition, based on Latin text) * [http://www.usccb.org/catechism/ US Catholic Bishops Conference: Office for the Catechism]
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• First Ecumenical Council
  The participating bishops were given free travel to and from their episcopal sees to the council, as ...uncil was an agreement by all the Churches, through the agreement of their bishops, to celebrate [[Easter]] on the same day. As by far the most important fea
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• Bishop
  topic_name = Bishops |
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• Apostolic Succession
  ...lead the church have received their authority through an unbroken line of bishops through the centuries from the apostles, and so are the rightful leaders of Churches that have maintained the historic episcopate of a hierarchy of bishops and priests include the [[Roman Catholic Church]], [[Eastern Orthodox]] chu
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• Second Ecumenical Council
  which was not completely accepted by the bishops of Rome, Antioch, and Alexandria.
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• Jerusalem Declaration
  ...in the Anlgican church, especially the acceptance of homosexual clergy and bishops in the Episcopalian Church of the United States.
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• Donatism
  ...tists held the true church was a church that could not include priests and bishops who had returned to the Christian faith after giving it up previously unde
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• Nicene Creed
  ...ewly acquired kingdom divided over a theological issue, he called together bishops from across the Empire to a great assembly to sort out their differences an ...ll number of Arians, a small number of Alexandrians, and a large number of bishops who simply wanted to see the issue resolved. Since Arius himself was not a
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• Ecumenical Council
  An ecumenical council is a meeting of the bishops of the whole church convened to discuss and settle matters of Church doctri
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• Anglican Communion
  ...ishops also sit in the House of Lords, a privilege not enjoyed by Catholic bishops or representatives of other faiths. It is doubtful whether any of these five points can be cited with equal confidence today.
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• Was Peter the first Pope? (justforcatholics.org)
  ...ides in the Bishop of the Church of Rome. He is the head of the College of Bishops, the Vicar of Christ, and the Pastor of the universal Church here on earth. ...er the other apostles and the church. Ironically, later on in history, the bishops of Rome - who were supposedly the successors of Peter - strove and fought t
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• Roman Catholic Hierarchy
  ...h pope is elected for life by the College of Cardinals, a body composed of bishops elevated to the status of cardinal by the Pope. The pope is assisted in the ...782 regions called dioceses (also called sees or, in the East, eparchies). These diocese are grouped into 1 of 23 particular rites - the Latin Rite being th
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• Hussite
  ...ng the Church" that the church consisted of believers. Furthermore, church bishops and priests, according to Hussite theology, were only validly in position a
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• Counter Reformation
  ...cts of the movement. The term Counter-Reformation emphasizes the view that these reforms were prompted largely by the rise of Protestants and the threat the ...d with institutional reform, to address contentious issues such as corrupt bishops and priests, indulgences, and other financial abuses. The Council rejected
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• Immaculate Conception
  ...lief of the early Church, as well as citing the approval of Roman Catholic Bishops worldwide, who had been asked to weigh in on the matter. ''Ineffabilis Deu
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• Impact of Vatican I (G.G.)
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• Thomas Cranmer
  ...court proceedings. Now Henry, having first charged the Queen's supporters, bishops John Fisher, John Clerk, Nicholas West and Henry Standish and archdeacon of ...e, but neither knew what the new Church should look like. The bond between these two men was strengthened when Cranmer again married, this time in secret. H
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• Notes on the history of the Nasrani Church of the East
  ...came to an end. In its place a Church of Gentile Christians, with Gentile bishops, was formed, who depended much less on the sacred memories of the city." ...lanted church, and his name was Markos I. His Apostolic Succession is from these two episcopal sees, not from Saint James. This is why Post Apostolic Jerusa
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• Old Catholic Church
  ...riests and bishops; later the Dutch were united more formally with many of these groups under the name [[Utrecht Union of Churches]].
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