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	Culturalshift.net Finance Episcopalian church governance, more information about Episcopalian church governance
		Episcopalian government in the church is rule by a hierarchy of bishops (Greek: episcopoi).
		Episcopalian government is adopted by the majority of churches, and for most of the history of Christianity it has been the only form known to Christendom.
		The Catholic churches of Rome and Byzantium (Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox in modern terms) are episcopalian, as are the Oriental Orthodox churches.
	www.culturalshift.net /Episcopalian_church_governance.html (1271 words)

	Episcopal polity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		85 and 110 a.d., St. Ignatius of Antioch, Patriarch of Antioch, was the earliest of the Church fathers to define the importance of episcopal government.
		Churches that are members of the Anglican Communion are episcopal churches in polity, and some are named "Episcopal." However, some churches that self-identify as Anglican do not belong to the Anglican Communion, and not all episcopally-governed churches are Anglican.
		In these latter cases, the form of government is not radically different from the presbyterian form, except that their councils of bishops have hierarchical jurisdiction over the local ruling bodies to a greater extent than in most Presbyterian and other Reformed churches.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Episcopalian_church_governance (3007 words)

	Orthodox Church - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		The Orthodox churches demanded that no words be added to or taken away from the ancient and fundamental statement of the faith, as issued by the councils of Nicaea and Constantinople in the 4th century.
		The Orthodox churches in Eastern Europe also faced persecution by oppressive Communist governments after World War II ended in 1945, but they too regained their authority in the 1990s and are slowly reestablishing their place in the moral, religious, and cultural life of their people.
		The broader ecumenical attitude adopted during the reign of Pope John XXIII by the Roman Catholic Church (which does not officially belong to the WCC) was welcomed by many Orthodox Church leaders, especially the patriarch of Constantinople, and it led to new and friendlier relations between the churches.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761572657___15/Orthodox_Church.html (1968 words)

	Talk:Episcopal polity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		I also tend to prefer "polity" over "governance" but I think this is perhaps a reflection of the anglican (me) seeing the matter in a sacramental light which doesn't apply to congregationally governed churches as a rule.
		There are examples of churches that have adopted a hierarchical system of government, of rank or status, of preferment in decision-making, of prelacy - but not having a concept of episcopal authority as foundational, they will inevitably differ from episcopal polity.
		The explanation of what episcopal government is, and how it works in practical terms, is in the versions of the story as they tell it, because history is their explanation of what is transmitted through the power of ordination, and how that authority is ordered into a system of government in the church.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Episcopalian_church_governance (3266 words)

	About Episcopalians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		We are not a "confessional" church founded on any particular doctrine, such as justification by faith alone, predestination, "transubstantiation," scriptural "inerrancy," the necessity to have a "born again" experience, or the like.
		The center of attention an Episcopal church is not the pulpit, the minister, or the choir.
		In such churches, the choir space is called the "choir." In other Anglican churches, the choir is placed at the back of the nave in a loft, to the side of the altar, or even behind the altar.
	www.stannsnashville.org /newcomers/episcopalians.php (2429 words)

	Bishop at Caribbean Topfunwebsites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		As the church continued to expand, new churches in important cities gained their own bishop, but churches in the regions around an important city were served by presbyters and deacons from the bishop's city church.
		In the Eastern churches, latifundia entailed to a bishop's see were much less common, the state power did not collapse the way it did in the West, and thus the tendency of bishops acquiring secular power was much weaker than in the West.
		The more senior bishops of the Church of England continue to sit in the House of Lords of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, as representatives of the established church, and are known as Lord Spiritual.
	www.topfunwebsites.com /guyana/bishop.html (2764 words)

	Culturalshift.net Finance Congregationalist church governance, more information about Congregationalist church ...
		The United Church of Christ is the result of a series of Unions constructed according to liberal congregationalist theory, as a union between the Evangelical and Reformed Church and the Congregational Christian Churches.
		The Evangelical and Reformed Church was the result of a partial union of the Reformed Church in the United States and the Evangelical Synod of North America (a union of Lutherans and Reformed).
		In the United Kingdom, the United Reformed Church is the merger of the Presbyterian churches and the Congregational churches, on congregational principles of union.
	www.culturalshift.net /Congregationalist_church_governance.html (1159 words)

	Methodism - Deistpedia, the Deist encyclopedia
		The largest of these were the Primitive Methodist church, deriving from a revival at Mow Cop in Staffordshire, the Bible Christians and the United Methodist Church (not connected with the American denomination of the same name, but a union of three smaller denominations).
		The United Methodist Church was formed in 1968 as a result of a merger between the Evangelical United Brethren and the Methodist Church.
		Ministers are assigned to churches by bishops, distinguishing it from presbyterian government.
	www.templeofreason.org /test7/Methodism.htm (2347 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Church
		In the conception of the Church as a body governed and directed by Christ as the head, far more is contained than the familiar analogy between a ruler and his subjects on the one hand, and the head guiding and coordinating the activities of the several members on the other.
		In this sense the government of the Church is not democratic.
		When the Church points to sanctity as one of her notes, it is manifest that what is meant is a sanctity of such a kind as excludes the supposition of any natural origin.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03744a.htm (19716 words)

	Mark Lawrence: A Prognosis for this Body Episcopal
		Keeping vigil at its bedside, Episcopalianism, by which I mean the ethos of that body of Anglicans in the U.S., waits, gripped by a culture of denial, which includes its inability to look at either the declining health or the ecclesiology of the dying institution to which its constitution and canons tie it.
		The average Episcopalian, parish church and mission, bishop and priest, seem to prefer to sleep at the bedside of the patient, thoughtless of the impending trauma, than to prepare for the inevitable or take swift action to avert it.
		The actions of the Episcopal Church in the consecration of V. Gene Robinson in 2003, and the same-sex blessings in the Diocese of New Westminster (Canada), have revealed the Achilles heel of the Anglican Communion.
	deimel.org /church_resources/ml_prognosis.htm (1061 words)

	GraceCathedral.org - Episcopal / Episcopalian online, multi-media spirituality magazine by GraceCom.
		The Episcopal Church is the Church of England as it developed in the United States.
		The church is both the place where the people gather for public worship, prayer, singing and celebration of sacraments (certain rites and symbols indicating God's gracious presence among us) together, and also the people themselves, participating in worship, praying, singing and celebrating.
		The Episcopal Church is not a "preachy" Church, and although it does maintain those rituals common to the Christian Church since its inception, it is not a "you must follow the rules or else" type of Church.
	www.gracecathedral.org /church/welcome.shtml (667 words)

	Episcopal Church
		These churches, while autonomous in their governance, are bound together by tradition, Scripture, and the inheritance they have received from the Church of England.
		Episcopal churches are built in many architectural styles; but whether the church be small or large, elaborate or plain, your eye is carried to the altar, or holy table, and to the cross.
		As the church evolved in England, certain elements of the Reformation (such as worship in the vernacular, an emphasis on Scriptural authority, and a broader view of what happens during the consecration of the Eucharist) became a part of its tradition.
	www.goodshepherdkingwood.org /whatis.htm (3033 words)

	Episcopalian - Theopedia
		In general, episcopal churches are those with bishops that adhere to an episcopalian type of church governance.
		The word "episcopal" is commonly used to distinguish between the various organizational structures of Protestant churches, thus the word presbyterian is used to describe churches ruled by elected Elders (Greek presbuteros) while "episcopal" is used to describe churches ruled by bishops.
		Churches that are members of the Anglican Communion are episcopal churches in polity, and some are named "Episcopal." However, some Anglican churches do not belong to the Anglican Communion, and not all episcopally-governed churches are Anglican.
	www.theopedia.com /Episcopalian (252 words)

	Church of the Epiphany
		The Church of the Epiphany is a member of the Hocking Valley Deanery, one of ten deaneries in the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio.
		Our church is named for the most famous epiphany, which occurred when the divine nature of the infant Christ was revealed by the fact that the Magi had been led by a star to the stable in Bethlehem.
		Epiphany is a mission church of the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio.
	www.episcopalian.org /hvd/Nelsonville/N_Epiph.html (3387 words)

	ECR >> The Episcopal Church
		The Episcopal Church is a democratic church with a government much like the government of United States and with Bishops giving pastoral care and oversight.
		Episcopalians believe the Holy Scriptures to be the Word of God and to contain all things necessary for salvation.
		Episcopalians affirm that salvation is the end of our separation from God and the beginning of a new relationship with God and with one another.
	www.edecr.org /episcopalchurch.htm (2411 words)

	No Consents: A Crucial Test for The Episcopal Church
		He is on record as saying that the polity of The Episcopal Church is informed more by notions of democracy and nationalism than Anglicanism, disqualifying it as being appropriate for the current age.
		That he has special problems with The Episcopal Church and with the General Convention is less important than the fact that he is willing to employ extralegal means to achieve his notion of some larger catholic unity, however.
		Even if he sincerely believes that he is correct and the church is wrong, he has no right to expect that others in the church who as sincerely believe otherwise should grant him license to disobey the canons.
	deimel.org /church_resources/no_consents.htm (2790 words)

	The Church of the Good Shepherd Welcomes You
		The Episcopal Church is a branch of the one, Holy, catholic (universal) and Apostolic Church instituted by Jesus Christ.
		The Christian church in a given country or region at that time was customarily described as the church of the region, such as the Church of Gaul, the Church of Spain, or the Church of England (Latin: ecclesia anglicana).
		Episcopal churches are churches that use an episcopalian church governance, meaning that bishops are generally regarded as being in Apostolic succession from the first followers of Jesus.
	www.goodshepherdsaustell.org /whatwebelieve.htm (6432 words)

	VISITORS' CENTER
		The Episcopal Church strives to live by the message of Christ, in which there are no outcasts and all are welcome.
		Walking a middle way between Roman Catholicism and Protestant traditions, we are a sacramental and worship-oriented church that promotes thoughtful debate about what God is calling us to do and be, as followers of Christ.
		The best way to learn about the Episcopal Church is to become a part of it.
	ecusa.anglican.org /visitors.htm (175 words)

	New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Vol. IX: Petri - Reuchlin \| Christian Classics Ethereal Library
		The Reformed Episcopal Church formally separated from the Protestant Episcopal Church, under the leadership of Bishop George David Cummins (q.v.), at a meeting composed of prominent Protestant Episcopal clergymen and laymen, held in New York Dec.
		The Reformed Episcopal Church therefore claims to be the old Protestant Episcopal Church in the full meaning of the title, and takes its name from the historic title of the Reformed Church of England, and the great English Reformers and Protestant martyrs.
		The church maintains a large mission work among the colored freedmen of the South, under the care of a white superintendent An extensive foreign-mission work is conducted in India, including at Lalitpur orphanages and schools, and at Lucknow a hospital and dispensary, all under the charge of clergymen educated in the Philadelphia Theological Seminary.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/encyc09.reformed_episcopalians.html (701 words)

	savvy's Xanga Site
		The original church kept most of the children and it is clear that Betty's church, if it is to survive, must find some younger families or face certain demise as a viable congregation.
		They will leave their current church if they have to, but not until they have fought to try and keep the building and the funding behind it.
		Most governments operate on old-fashioned ideas of what a government is "supposed to be" rather than examining how best to solve the present day's troubles.
	www.xanga.com /savvy (1847 words)

	Anglicans Online Essays \| Episcopalian Democracy, by Pierre Whalon
		The Episcopal Church [is] a Fellowship within the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church, of those duly constituted Dioceses, Provinces, and regional Churches in communion with the See of Canterbury, upholding and propagating the historic Faith and Order as set forth in the Book of Common Prayer.
		Their interpretation of the ancient church’s idea of a governing body or synod was patterned after their new-fangled ideas of self-rule.
		But Episcopalians are especially accountable for the freedom and responsibility to make good use of this instrument of the General Convention to further the mission and work of the Church of Jesus Christ, among "the Americans" and away to the ends of the earth.
	anglicansonline.org /resources/essays/whalon/gencon.html (1400 words)

	The Anglican Domain: Vocabulary A B C D e
		In England the Anglican Church is referred to as the Church of England.
		It is a concept by which Anglican churches are unified: a church either is, or is not, a member of the Anglican Communion.
		The Scottish church was at that time generally known as Episcopalian, and any word that reminded people of England was unpopular in the U.S., so the church was called "Episcopal" after the Scottish usage.
	www.anglican.org /vocab/abcde.html (1058 words)

	Saints Martha & Mary Episcopal Church - Introduction to the Episcopal Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The word "church" comes from the Latin ecclesia, which means "a gathering," and eventually came to mean the gathered people of God.
		However, all of the people of the church participate in the administration of the church family.
		As a result, while the Episcopal Church is overseen by bishops, and they represent the unity of faith in the midst of much diversity, both lay people and clergy share in the governance of the Episcopal Church.
	www.mandm.org /why_an_episcopalian[1].html (1159 words)

	daily episcopalian: An African bishop observes our Convention
		But in democratic church governance, ALL CHRISTIANS ARE DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH and Bishops are only spokespersons of the faith and not the sole interpreters of the Faith 'once received and delivered to the saints' Bishops do not have veto votes in the ECUSA, unlike many of Bishops outside the US.
		The General Convention style of governance was dominated by the presentations of resolutions to the Houses to be discussed and voted on.
		The resolutions covered most of the mission of the Church for internal and external concerns of the Church, touching all areas of Church life, witness and mission as well as world politics, economy and social life.
	blog.edow.org /weblog/2006/07/post_5.html (2300 words)

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