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To enforce her religious policies, Queen Elizabeth needed bishops willing to cooperate. Seven bishops, including Cardinal Pole, Mary's Archbishop of Canterbury, died in 1558 and needed to be replaced. The remaining bishops were all Catholics appointed during Mary's reign, and Elizabeth's advisers hoped they could be persuaded to continue serving.
The authorized worship of the Elizabethan church could be broken up into three categories: the first was the Litany and approved versions of the Elizabethan prayer book, the second included the 1559 Elizabethan primer and other authorized private devotionals, and the third being the compilations of occasionally authorized prayers that for ...
– RE Mid-America (suffr.) Joined the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America in November 2015 Amos Fagbamiye: 2007 2019 CANA (suffr.) – I Trinity [39] Dual membership at ACNA and Church of Nigeria College of Bishops ended, became solely a Church of Nigeria bishop, 23 May 2019 Todd Atkinson: 2012 2024 Via Apostolica
Under consecrators are the numbers (or letters) referencing previous bishops on the list. The number listed first represents the principal consecrator. If a series of letters is under "Consecrators", then the consecrators were bishops from outside the United States (the list of foreign sees is at the bottom of the page).
Anglican bishops are often identified by the purple clergy shirt and cassock they are entitled to wear. However, bishops are permitted to wear other colours, and a former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, is frequently seen wearing a black cassock. Bishops also usually wear a pectoral cross and episcopal ring.
In this edition, Queen Elizabeth I is flanked by allegorical virtues of Faith and Charity; Elizabeth therefore represents Hope. Beneath the portrait is a Latin text from Romans 1:16. The bishops deputed to revise the Apocrypha appear to have delivered very little, as the text in these books broadly reproduces that of the Great Bible.
Occupying many lower positions in the Elizabethan church, this latter group grew during the exile period and produced many of the leaders of the Elizabethan anti-vestments faction. As deans, prebends, and parish priests, they were freer to disobey openly, en masse, the requirements for clerical dress.
The Episcopal Diocese of Bethlehem covers fourteen counties in Pennsylvania to the north and west of Philadelphia.The current bishop, the Rt. Rev. Kevin D. Nichols, was elected as Bishop on April 28, 2018, [2] and consecrated on September 15, 2018. [3]