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Episcopacy and the Government of the Church

2019
Central to the debates between Catholics during the archpriest business, and indeed long after, was the question of episcopacy and, more precisely, of how far episcopal regulation was needed in order to guarantee the integrity of the Catholic community in England and whether the pope was in any sense obliged to appoint a proper episcopal hierarchy and ...
Peter Lake, Michael Questier
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The Soviet government and the churches

Religion in Communist Lands, 1974
Church-state relations in the USSR are governed at the highest level by a body whose precise powers have never been made public. This is the Council for Religious Affairs under the USSR Council of Ministers. The Council for Religious Affairs was formed in 1966 as an amalgamation of two previously-existing bodies, one of which dealt with the Russian ...
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Church Government

2017
Chapter 5 focuses on English debates on church government and its connections with both civil government and theology. Grotius overtly praised English episcopacy and its consistency with a monarchical form of government, and he saw it compatible with non-iure divino Presbyterianism (more convenient to countries like the United Provinces, ruled by ...
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The Church and the Government

1990
The election of the Conservative government in 1979 commited to radical policies, particularly in relation to economic liberalisation, the freeing of markets, the diminution of the role of government and a more limited role for the welfare state occasioned major controversies with mainstream British churches which continue unabated.
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Governing Body of the Church in Wales

Ecclesiastical Law Journal, 2022
Depending on how one counts it, the Governing Body of the Church in Wales met either two or three times in 2021. The April session was conducted entirely online, but the September sessions were split between a physical meeting on Monday 6 September and an online meeting on Wednesday 8 September.
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Governing Body of the Church in Wales

Ecclesiastical Law Journal, 2021
The Governing Body had been due to meet in April 2020 in Llandudno but, like so much else, this meeting was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown imposed by the Welsh Government.
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Governing Body of the Church in Wales

Ecclesiastical Law Journal, 2008
In April, a Bill was considered to enable women to be consecrated as bishops. The most crucial amendment for consideration was that ‘the Bench of Bishops will provide pastoral care and support for those who in conscience cannot accept the ordination of women as priests and bishops through the ministry of an Assistant Bishop or Bishops’.
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Government of the Church‐State

1999
Abstract Examines authority in the interdependent church state conditioned by the customary arrangements described previously. Professionalization of government carried out by ‘new monarchy’ (1650–1750) moved from the Reformation custodianship towards modern state sovereignty.
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State Governance of the Church

2019
This chapter looks at how the modern state of Oman relates to the Christian Church today and looks at the particular mechanisms in play, especially the Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs. It also looks at the influence of the Sultan and the personal interplay between the monarch and the church.
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Governing Body of the Church in Wales

Ecclesiastical Law Journal, 2019
The April meeting was held while the Anglican Consultative Council was meeting in Hong Kong, and the Governing Body received a video message from Dr Heather Payne and the Ven Mary Stallard, its two representatives. In his presidential address to the September meeting, the Archbishop of Wales spoke of the challenges facing the Church and said that those
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