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Apostolic succession is the method whereby the ministry of the Christian Church is considered by some Christian denominations to be derived from the apostles by a continuous succession,which has usually been associated with a claim that the succession is through a series of bishops. Those of the Catholic,Eastern Orthodox,Anglican,Church of Sweden,Oriental Orthodox,Church of the East,Hussite,Moravian and Old Catholic traditions maintain that "a bishop cannot have regular or valid orders unless he has been consecrated in this apostolic succession". These traditions do not always consider the episcopal consecrations of all of the other traditions as valid.
A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity,bishops are normally responsible for the governance and administration of dioceses. The role or office of the bishop is called episcopacy. Organizationally,several Christian denominations utilize ecclesiastical structures that call for the position of bishops,while other denominations have dispensed with this office,seeing it as a symbol of power. Bishops have also exercised political authority within their dioceses.
The Church of England is the established Christian church in England. It traces its history to the Christian church recorded as existing in the Roman province of Britain by the 3rd century and to the 6th-century Gregorian mission to Kent led by Augustine of Canterbury. Its adherents are called Anglicans.
In church governance,a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
The Church of Ireland is a Christian church in Ireland,and an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion. It is organised on an all-Ireland basis and is the second-largest Christian church on the island after the Roman Catholic Church. Like other Anglican churches,it has retained elements of pre-Reformation practice,notably its episcopal polity,while rejecting the primacy of the pope.
Since the 1990s,the Anglican Communion has struggled with controversy regarding homosexuality in the church. In 1998,the 13th Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops passed a resolution "rejecting homosexual practice as incompatible with Scripture". However,this is not legally binding. "Like all Lambeth Conference resolutions,it is not legally binding on all provinces of the Communion,including the Church of England,though it commends an essential and persuasive view of the attitude of the Communion." "Anglican national churches in Brazil,South Africa,South India,New Zealand and Canada have taken steps toward approving and celebrating same-sex relationships amid strong resistance among other national churches within the 80 million-member global body. The Episcopal Church in the U.S. has allowed same-sex marriage since 2015,and the Scottish Episcopal Church has allowed same-sex marriage since 2017." In 2017,clergy within the Church of England indicated their inclination towards supporting same-sex marriage by dismissing a bishops' report that explicitly asserted the exclusivity of church weddings to unions between a man and a woman. At General Synod in 2019,the Church of England announced that same-gender couples may remain recognised as married after one spouse experiences a gender transition. In 2023,the Church of England announced that it would authorise "prayers of thanksgiving,dedication and for God's blessing for same-sex couples."
The Diocese of Sydney is a diocese in Sydney,within the Province of New South Wales of the Anglican Church of Australia. The majority of the diocese is evangelical and low church in tradition.
The Anglican Church of Australia,formerly known as the Church of England in Australia and Tasmania,is a Christian church in Australia and an autonomous church of the Anglican Communion. It is the second largest church in Australia after the Catholic Church. According to the 2016 census,3.1 million Australians identify as Anglicans. As of 2016,the Anglican Church of Australia had more than 3 million nominal members and 437,880 active baptised members. For much of Australian history since the arrival of the First Fleet in January 1788,the church was the largest religious denomination. It remains today one of the largest providers of social welfare services in Australia.
Forward in Faith (FiF) is an organisation operating in the Church of England and the Scottish Episcopal Church. It represents a traditionalist strand of Anglo-Catholicism and is characterised by its opposition to the ordination of women to the priesthood and episcopate. It also takes a traditionalist line on other matters of doctrine. Credo Cymru is its counterpart in Wales. Forward in Faith North America (FIFNA) operates in the U.S.
The Church of South India (CSI) is a united Protestant Church in India. It is the result of union of a number of Protestant denominations in South India that occurred after the independence of India.
The Anglican Church of Canada is the province of the Anglican Communion in Canada. The official French-language name is l'Église anglicane du Canada. In 2022,the Anglican Church counted 294,931 members on parish rolls in 1,978 congregations,organized into 1,498 parishes. The 2021 Canadian census counted 1,134,315 self-identified Anglicans,making the Anglican Church the third-largest Canadian church after the Catholic Church and the United Church of Canada.
The blessing or wedding of same-sex marriages and same-sex unions is an issue about which leaders of Christian churches are in ongoing disagreement. Traditionally,Christianity teaches that homosexual acts are sinful and that holy matrimony can only exist between two persons of different sexes. These disagreements are primarily centred on the interpretation of various scripture passages related to homosexuality,sacred tradition,and in some churches on varying understandings of homosexuality in terms of psychology,genetics and other scientific data. While numerous church bodies have widely varying practices and teachings,individual Christians of every major tradition are involved in practical (orthopraxy) discussions about how to respond to the issue.
Richard Duncan Turnbull is a Church of England clergyman. He was the Principal of Wycliffe Hall,Oxford,an Evangelical Anglican theological college which is part of the University of Oxford. He stepped down in June 2012 following a long-running dispute,becoming Director of the Centre For Enterprise,Markets and Ethics.
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 succession. This succession is transmitted from each bishop to their successors by the rite of Holy Orders. It is sometimes subject of episcopal genealogy.
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 congregations in Mexico,two mission churches in Guatemala,and a missionary diocese in Cuba. Headquartered in Ambridge,Pennsylvania,the church reported 977 congregations and 124,999 members in 2022. The first archbishop of the ACNA was Robert Duncan,who was succeeded by Foley Beach in 2014.
Harold Creeth Miller is a retired Irish Anglican bishop. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Down and Dromore in the Church of Ireland. Coming from a Methodist background,he was elected bishop in 1997 and was considered to represent an evangelical position within the Church.
The Archbishops' Council is a part of the governance structures of the Church of England. Its headquarters are at Church House,Great Smith Street,London.
Gavin Andrew Collins is a British Anglican bishop. He has been Bishop of Dorchester,an area bishop in the Diocese of Oxford,since 14 April 2021. From 2011 to 2021,he had been Archdeacon of The Meon in the Diocese of Portsmouth in Hampshire.
Sir William Robert Fittall was a British civil servant and Anglican lay reader. From 2002 to 2015,he served as the secretary-general of the Archbishops' Council and the General Synod of the Church of England. He had previously worked as a civil servant in the Home Office,the Northern Ireland Office,and the Cabinet Office. Fittall died on 10 March 2022,at the age of 68.
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