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The presiding bishop has two counselors; the three together form the presiding bishopric. [72] As opposed to ward bishoprics, where the counselors do not hold the office of bishop, all three men in the presiding bishopric hold the office of bishop, and thus the counselors, as with the presiding bishop, are formally referred to as "Bishop". [73]
In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. [1] History. Dioceses of the Roman Empire, AD 400. In ...
An Eastern Catholic bishop of the Syro-Malabar Church holding the Mar Thoma Cross which symbolizes the heritage and identity of the Syrian Church of Saint Thomas Christians of India Johann Otto von Gemmingen, Prince-Bishop of Augsburg in Bavaria, 1591–1598, carrying a crosier and wearing a mitre and pluviale.
A titular bishop in various churches is a bishop who is not in charge of a diocese.By definition, a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop, the tradition of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches is that he be ordained for a specific place.
The Anglo-Prussian bishopric in Jerusalem was a Protestant episcopal see based in Jerusalem between 1841 and 1886. It was a joint venture of the Church of England and the Evangelical Church in Prussia. The bishopric was established as a result of multiple missionary efforts in the Holy Land and the 1840 expedition by the Quadruple Alliance.
A diocesan bishop, within various Christian traditions, is a bishop or archbishop in pastoral charge of a diocese or archdiocese.In relation to other bishops, a diocesan bishop may be a suffragan, a metropolitan (if an archbishop) or a primate.
The Anglican Diocese of Jerusalem, established in 1841, was raised to the status of a non-metropolitan archiepiscopal see in 1957, but reduced to the status of an ordinary bishopric again in 1976. In 2014 it was again elevated to the status of non-metropolitan archbishopric, with its ordinary bearing the title "Archbishop in Jerusalem", despite ...
The bishopric had the support of the Protestant king Frederick William of Prussia: his envoy appointed to England, specifically to aid Lord Ashley in the project. Their joint efforts fell mainly to overcoming opposition from Anglo-Catholic groups in England, under the Oxford Movement , which was trying to reconcile the English Church with Rome .