Compassed about with so great a cloud: the witnesses of Scottish episcopal acta before ca 1250 [PDF]
This article is the result of examining the witnesses to some 600 episcopal acta. Despite the unequal incidence of survival from one diocese to another and the difficulty of identifying those men who had no surname, it is possible to draw some ...
Bateson, Cosmo Innes, Norman F. Shead
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Caminhos que levam a Roma: recursos culturais e redefinições da excelência religiosa
A centralidade da aquisição de recursos sociais variados através de processos de internacionalização marca tendência generalizada na dinâmica de recomposição das elites e grupos dirigentes, inclusive a Igreja católica. Dentro desse campo de discussões, o
Ernesto Seidl
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Conferences of European bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church outside Russia under chairmanship of archbishop John (Maksimovich) in 1952 and 1954 [PDF]
The article examines the documentary materials of the meetings of bishops of the Russian Church Abroad, held in 1952 and 1954 under chairmanship of St. John, Archbishop of Brussels and Western Europe.
Aleksandr Kornilov
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Growth or decline in the Church of England during the decade of Evangelism: did the Churchmanship of the Bishop matter? [PDF]
The Decade of Evangelism occupied the attention of the Church of England throughout the 1990s. The present study employs the statistics routinely published by the Church of England in order to assess two matters: the extent to which these statistics ...
Barnes J +33 more
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Continuity and change in diocese and province: the role of a Tudor bishop [PDF]
Thomas Cranmer's register is important in shedding valuable shafts of light on the nature of the episcopal office in Tudor England. Despite the government's break with Rome in the 1530s, much of the archbishop's routine administration continued unaltered.
Ayris, P
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Mollusca, Gastropoda, Ellobiidae, Carychium minimum, and Ferussaciidae, Cecilioides acicula: Distribution extension and first provincial records of two introduced land snails in Ontario, Canada [PDF]
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The article tackles the problem of the appointment of bishops in the dioceses of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania between 1544 and 1632, paying particular attention to income as a factor driving careers, Influencing the filling of bishoprics, and so-called ...
Wioletta Pawlikowska-Butterwick
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I AM informed by Miss E. Brown, of Cirencester, that she saw Bishop's ring in full day-time as recently as last month, not far from 12 o'clock one day, the sun being hidden behind a cloud at the time. It appeared very similar in extent, as well as colour, though not intensity, to what it did after the Krakatao eruption.
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Pope Francis, Second Vatican Council and the New Model of the Catholic Church [PDF]
While the Earth’s population grows exponentially and with it grows the number of baptized Catholics, there is no corresponding growth among the Catholic clergy. On the other hand the number of “believers outside of the Church” and nonbelievers grows each
Filippov Boris
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On Charlie Gard: Ethics, Culture, and Religion [PDF]
The 2017 story of Charlie Gard is revisited. Upon the British High Court’s ruling in favor of the physicians that the infant should be allowed to die without the experimental treatment, the view of the public as well as the opinions of bioethicists and ...
Lee, Marvin J. H.
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