Part,  Chapter, Paragraph

 1     I, 1   |           the threefold ministry of bishops, priests, and deacons, ~
 2     I, 1   |         died ~258). Cyprian saw all bishops as sharing in the one episcopate,
 3     I, 1   |           was only natural that the bishops, who, as Cyprian emphasized,
 4     I, 1   |       councils, attended by all the bishops in ~a particular civil province
 5     I, 1   |         general. council, formed of bishops from the whole Christian
 6     I, 2,1 |       conclusion of the Council the bishops dined with ~the Emperor. .
 7     I, 2,2 |     understanding and language. The bishops, when they drew up definitions
 8     I, 2,2 |     Chalcedon a fresh gathering of ~bishops, which the Church of Byzantium
 9     I, 2,2 |           one na-~ture but two. The bishops acclaimed the Tome of Saint
10     I, 2,2 |           then we must say that all bishops are essentially equal, however ~
11     I, 2,2 |            which each presides. All bishops share equally in the apostolic ~
12     I, 2,2 |           essential equality of all bishops, nor does it de-~prive each
13     I, 2,2 |             Bishop of Rome but all ~bishops are successors of Peter,
14     I, 2,2 |           essential equality of all bishops. The Pope is the first bishop
15     I, 2,4 |         duced 26 Patriarchs and 144 bishops: this gives some idea of
16     I, 2,4 |            vestments which Orthodox bishops now wear ~are the vestments
17     I, 2,4 |            decrees: it was for ~the bishops gathered in council to decide
18     I, 2,4 |            what the true faith was. Bishops were appointed by ~God to
19     I, 3,1 |             of ~the equality of all bishops, of the collegial and conciliar
20     I, 3,1 |             that few if any eastern bishops have ever done . not only
21     I, 3,1 |        Council representing all the bishops of the Church. Here we have
22     I, 3,2 |            absolute ~power over all bishops in the west. But he believed
23     I, 3,2 |         himself at Rome, but by the bishops of the prov-~inces adjacent
24     I, 3,2 |            unimpressive total of 12 bishops, although numbers at subsequent
25     I, 3,2 |     Constantinople, attended by 383 bishops . a notable contrast with
26     I, 3,2 |      Palestine? But ~when two rival bishops claimed the same throne
27     I, 4,2 |              But of the rest of the bishops, about ~half were native
28     I, 5,1 |         secular administration. The bishops became government officials,
29     I, 5,1 |             matters political, ~the bishops fell a prey to ambition
30     I, 5,1 |             him in his diocese; the bishops in turn taxed the parish
31     I, 5,2 |            control in Poland; their bishops were appointed not by the
32     I, 5,2 |          secretly with the Orthodox bishops, who ~were for the most
33     I, 5,2 |           Six out of eight Orthodox bishops, including the Metropolitan
34     I, 5,2 |        union, but the remaining two bishops, together with a large ~
35     I, 5,2 |          candles and banners. Greek bishops invited the Latin mis-~sionaries
36     I, 6,1 |           1448 a council of Russian bishops proceeded to elect a Metropolitan ~
37     I, 6,2 |             their own succession of bishops; and the ~Bezpopovtsy, who
38     I, 6,3 |         members, three of whom were bishops, and the rest drawn from
39     I, 6,3 |        whoop and hollow in Church.; bishops are told to see that the
40     I, 6,3 |             gates were laymen . the bishops and clergy present numbered
41     I, 6,3 |      questions was reserved to the ~bishops alone. The Council carried
42     I, 7,6 |          cal schoolmasters whom the bishops choose as their lay preachers.
43     I, 7,6 |        while cooperat-~ing with the bishops and other Church authorities,
44     I, 7,9 |             separate dioceses, with bishops at London, Paris, Bonn,
45     I, 7,9 |            total of more than forty bishops. Before ~the First World
46     I, 7,9 |        presides over a synod of ten bishops (one ~lives in Canada, and
47     I, 7,9 |             for the priesthood. The bishops ~in the Greek Archdiocese
48     I, 7,9 |             committee of Or-~thodox bishops, representing most (but
49     I, 7,10|           some converts) with five ~bishops and an Orthodox university
50     I, 7,10|       Japanese, but one of the two ~bishops is American. There is a
51     I, 7,10|              there were two African bishops. ~ At first the canonical
52    II, 0,11|     necessarily true. As one of the bishops remarked at the Council
53    II, 0,12|         faith put out by individual bishops. While the doctrinal decisions~
54    II, 0,12|      Councils and by individ-~7~ual bishops. Theodore Balsamon, Zonaras,
55    II, 2,1 |             terms of the college of bishops and of the Ecumenical~Council;
56    II, 2,1 |         seen in action, as the~many bishops assembled council freely
57    II, 2,2 |          the local Churches,~26~the bishops, with one another. Unity
58    II, 2,2 |           communion with his fellow bishops.~Orthodoxy, believing that
59    II, 2,2 |          must consider the place of bishops and of~the laity in the
60    II, 2,3 |                                     Bishops, Laity, Councils~The Orthodox
61    II, 2,3 |             Apostolic Succession of bishops. ‘The dignity of the bishop
62    II, 2,3 |        special ordained ministry of bishops, priests, and deacons; yet
63    II, 2,3 |             from the other. Without bishops there can be no Orthodox
64    II, 2,3 |            the~whole people of God, bishops, clergy, and laity together.
65    II, 2,3 |             of the faith, it is the bishops alone who, in virtue of
66    II, 2,3 |        decision.~29~But councils of bishops can err and be deceived.
67    II, 2,3 |          the~Church at large’?) The bishops, so Khomiakov argued, because
68    II, 2,3 |         true Ecumenical Council the bishops recognize what the truth
69    II, 3,2 |  congregation. In 1906 many Russian bishops in fact recommended that
70    II, 4,5 |            by three or at least two bishops, never by one alone: since
71    II, 4,5 |       carried out by a ‘college’ of bishops.~An ordination, while performed
72    II, 4,5 |          the traditional~practice). Bishops are drawn exclusively from
73    II, 4,5 |           many instances of married bishops — for example, Saint Peter~
74    II, 4,5 |        argue that the limitation~of bishops to the monastic clergy is
75    II, 4,5 |        change the present rule that bishops must be monks, but to reinvigorate~
76    II, 4,5 | autocephalous Church~which appoints bishops to vacant sees; but in some
77    II, 4,5 |         laid down~that henceforward bishops in the Russian Church should
78    II, 4,5 |           title of honour, given to bishops of special eminence.~The
79    II, 4,6 |           the Orthodox Church. Some bishops and theologians altogether
80    II, 5,1 |          were put forward — married~bishops; permission for a priest
81    II, 5,1 |            areas and have their own~bishops, monasteries, and parishes.~
82    II, 6,2 |           but say nothing about the bishops. But now that the second
83    II, 6,2 |        little about the position of bishops in the~Church, Orthodox
84    II, 6,2 |             the Pope is first among bishops: have they asked themselves
85    II, 6,2 |           Primate in the college of bishops, a universal responsibility,
86    II, 6,2 |      formulae. ‘The Pope, among the bishops,~is the elder brother, the
87    II, 6,2 |       including a number of eminent bishops and theologians — who are~
88    II, 7,4 |        Patriarchs and the Nonjuring Bishops, London, 1868.~• T. Ware,