the episcopate. In the sixteenth century, a solid body of Anglican opinion emerged which saw the theological importance of the historic episcopate but...

The historic or historical episcopate comprises all episcopates, that is, it is the collective body of all the bishops of a group who are in valid apostolic...

the Anglican Communion has struggled with controversy regarding homosexuality in the church. In 1998, the 13th Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops...

dominical sacraments of Baptism and Holy Communion; and the historic episcopate. Within the Anglican tradition, "divines" are clergy of the Church of England...

Anglican Communion, but that they, the Continuing Anglicans, are preserving or "continuing" both Anglican lines of apostolic succession and historic Anglican...

"extraordinary" circumstance have included disagreeing with Episcopalian views of the episcopate, and as a result, ELCA pastors ordained by other pastors are not...

Aglipayan Church. The churches of the Anglican Communion have traditionally held that ordination in the historic episcopate is a core element in the validity...

The Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) is a Christian denomination in the Anglican tradition in the United States and Canada. It also includes ten...

(i.e. universally within the undivided Christian Church)." Within historic Anglicanism the ACC sees itself as "rooted in a Catholic stream of faith and...

Articles, the historic doctrinal statement of the Church of England. Richard Hooker and the Caroline divines later developed Anglican doctrine of religious...

more substantive and central themes of doctrinal belief. Historic episcopate (Anglican views) Laud was ordained Bishop of London by his predecessor who...

but have not yet ordained a woman to the episcopate (see Ordination of women in the Anglican Communion). Anglican bishops are often identified by the purple...

the Episcopate 2004, p. 237. Mombo 2008, p. 131. "Ordination of Women in the Anglican Church of Canada (Deacons, Priests and Bishops)". Anglican Church...

considered as candidates for the episcopate." This was met with oppositions by traditionalists associated with the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON)...

favoured the theology, worship, and hierarchical structure of Anglicanism (such as the episcopate) as the true form of Christianity – began referring to that...

performed through the laying on of hands by Lutheran bishops in the historic episcopate. This provision was opposed by some in the ELCA, which after its...

consecrated a bishop in a major Christian denomination believing in the historic episcopate, a matter of significant controversy. After his election, many theologically...

with such authority are said to represent the historical episcopate or historic episcopate. Churches with this type of government usually believe that...

to hold various views on the question of ordaining women to the priesthood; however, in practice ordination to priesthood and episcopate are reserved to...

qualification. The Anglican Communion "has never officially endorsed any one particular theory of the origin of the historic episcopate, its exact relation...

and congregational forms of church polity, and would accept the historic episcopate without committing the church to any particular theological interpretation...

consecration of women to the episcopate." At previous Lambeth Conferences, only bishops were invited to attend, but all members of the Anglican Consultative Council...

phrase was used by John Henry Newman in setting out his influential views on Anglicanism, as part of the argument he brought forward with the Tractarian movement...

origin of the Anglican tradition, which combines features of both Reformed and Catholic Christian practices. Its adherents are called Anglicans. English Christianity...

India, the Anglican party while accepting the ministries of all uniting denominations, argued for the introduction of an episcopate in historic succession...

largest from any Anglican province. The Church of Nigeria does not recognise the ordination of women to the priesthood or the episcopate. In 2010, then...

In 2003, the Lambeth Commission on Communion was appointed by the Anglican Communion to study problems stemming from the consecration of Gene Robinson...

women to be ordained to the episcopate, with Libby Lane being the first woman to be ordained bishop. Continuing Anglican churches of the world do not...

understandings of ordained ministry. While the ELCA adopted the historic episcopate as part of Called to Common Mission, Lutherans have historically...

imposition of hands. The intention was to introduce an episcopate in historic succession (from Anglicanism) into the new united Church and to ensure its maintenance...