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Episcopacy and the Common Law

Ecclesiastical Law Journal, 2003
In the year 1771 a Virginian politician, Richard Bland, wrote to Thomas Adams on issues thrown up by the steadily worsening relations between the legislatures of mainland America and the Imperial government. His letter moved on to the subject of religion, and to the suggestion made increasingly in recent years that colonial worship and ministry ...
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Episcopacy and Empire

Abstract This chapter concerns the Tractarians’ impact on Anglicanism in the British Empire. It begins with their theology of monarchical episcopacy, which High-Church bishops in the incipient Anglican Communion adapted into a form of constitutional episcopacy by founding synods of bishops, clergy, and laity.
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Is Episcopacy a Jewish Institution ?

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1949
IT is a commonplace that the New Testament never speaks of the ordination of bishops. Elders or presbyters with powers of administration and instruction were the only ordained ministers. The church at Jerusalem was in the care of “the apostles and the elders”. When St. Paul visited Ephesus, it was the elders (presbyters) whom he summoned and addressed.
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Episcopacy, law and government

Ecclesiastical Law Journal
This Comment, based substantially on a lecture delivered to the Ecclesiastical Law Society on 5 July 2023, will explore how bishops engage with the legislature, comparing the example of Bishop George Bell in the last century with a rather different example in the present century, namely Pope Benedict XVI and his address to members of Parliament in ...
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Living by the staff: a perspective on episcopacy and authority

International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church, 2023
exaly  

The Blazon of Episcopacy

Notes and Queries, 1897
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Anti-Episcopacy

2010
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Constitutional Episcopacy

Theology, 1942
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Episcopacy and Intercommunion

Theology, 1959
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Patristics and bishops: What four Fathers might say about episcopacy today

Theology, 2011
Kenneth Stevenson
exaly