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 1 Fwd,1|        their successors bishops for local congregations (Phil 1:1).
 2  1,1 |          that he was the bishop (or local ecclesiastical officer)
 3  1,1 |        bishops to bring the various local Orthodox Churches over which
 4  1,5 |            all its fullness in each local community gathered around
 5  1,8 |            all its fullness in each local community in the celebration
 6  1,8 |    emphasizes the importance of the local community in the Church,
 7  1,10|       addition to these independent local Churches, however, the Church
 8  1,10|     episcopate. There are also many local Churches, yet Orthodoxy
 9  1,10|      something more than a group of local bodies that share a unity
10  1,11|            of bishops. Bishops head local Churches, while the Apostles
11  1,11|           council of bishops. For a local Church, it is a council
12  1,11|              it is a council of its local bishops, and for the Ecumenical
13  1,11|      representatives of independent local Churches, in conformity
14  1,17|          the center of unity in the local community. For Ignatius,
15  1,17|        community. For Ignatius, the local community — that is, the
16  1,17|           central importance of the local community (bishop and flock)
17  1,18|             not ecumenical, but was local in nature. The Church had
18  1,18|             a higher calling than a local council and is called the
19  2,2 |       accepted and certified by the local Churches and by a subsequent
20  2,15|       profound Christian antiquity, local councils of separate Orthodox
21  2,15|       Ecumenical Councils, p. 596.] Local councils were attended by
22  2,15|      problems that arose — that is, local problems. (Although not
23  2,16|           visible organization. The local Churches were placed under
24  2,35|           council of bishops: for a local Church it is a council of
25  2,35|       Church it is a council of its local bishops, and for the Ecumenical
26  2,35|     dogmatic decrees of a number of local councils, and also the dogmatic
27  3,5 |          own Churches through their local councils. The bishop of
28  6,15|   aspiration to subordinate all the local Churches to their authority,
29  7,9 |             had only portions — one local Church had an epistle, another
30  7,11|            as were made at the many local synods which have been held
31  7,11|             of Faith of the ancient local Churches; (3) the ancient
32  7,11|        examined and approved by the local bishops, and they were read
33  7,12|            Later councils (that is, local councils and letters or
34  7,14|             proves that a person or local congregation is not a part
35  7,18|           How do the decisions of a local council obtain ecumenical
36  7,18|            are infallible, those of local councils of individual bishops
37  7,18|            the decisions reached in local councils are accepted by
38  7,19|             can you name one set of local councils which dealt with
39  7,20|             Ecumenical Councils, by local councils, and by individual
40 10,6 |             consists of a number of local Churches such as Jerusalem,
41 10,11|        Ignatius of Antioch saw each local Church as one of a congregation
42 10,11|     communion of the heads of these local Churches (the bishops) with
43 10,12|          terms of branches) are the local autocephalous Churches of
44 10,16|       Caesarea we know that all the local ancient Christian Churches
45 11,1 |            offered, not only is the local congregation present, but
46 11,4 | Christianity accommodated itself to local cultures and allowed services
47 11,4 |     Orthodox service books into the local language. As Archimandrite
48 11,4 |           Heaven and earth. As each local congregation of Christians