The church accepted the articles of the Church of England in 1804. The spread of increasingly democratic forms of representative governance has its origin in the formation of the first General Conventions of the American Episcopal Church in the 1780s, which established a "House of Bishops" and a "House of Deputies".
In 1784 the Scottish church appointed Samuel Seabury as first bishop of the American Episcopal Church, beginning the worldwide Anglican Communion of churches, and in 1792 the penal laws were abolished.
In 1784 the Scottish church appointed Samuel Seabury as first bishop of the American Episcopal Church, beginning the worldwide Anglican Communion of churches, and in 1792 the penal laws were abolished.
The church accepted the articles of the Church of England in 1804. The spread of increasingly democratic forms of representative governance has its origin in the formation of the first General Conventions of the American Episcopal Church in the 1780s, which established a "House of Bishops" and a "House of Deputies".
This system developed gradually from a more presbyterian polity (Joseph Smith's original title in 1830 was "First Elder") for pragmatic and doctrinal reasons, reaching a full episcopacy during the Nauvoo period (1839–1846). ==See also== Canon law Collegiality (Catholic Church) Conciliarism Conciliarity Magisterium ==References== ==Further reading== Fairweather, E.
This has been reinforced by the Lambeth Conferences of Anglican Communion bishops, which first met in 1867.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1918. ==External links== Vatican: The Holy See Official Website of the Papacy Catholic Encyclopedia: Bishop The Website of the Archbishop of Canterbury Official Website of the Church of England Episcopacy United Methodist Council of Bishops Official Website of the United Methodist Church Methodist Episcopacy: In Search of Holy Orders By Gregory S.
N.B.: First published in 1952 by the General Board of Religious Education of the Church of England in Canada, Toronto, Ont. Swete, H.
Mowbray & Co., 1953, cop.
Neal An Agreed Statement on Conciliarity and Primacy in the Church by the Orthodox/Roman Catholic Consultation in the United States of America, 1989. Episcopacy Episcopacy in Anglicanism Types of Roman Catholic organization Types of Eastern Orthodox organization Episcopacy in the Catholic Church Episcopacy in Eastern Orthodoxy Episcopacy in Oriental Orthodoxy Christian terminology Religious leadership roles Assyrian Church of the East Ecclesiastical polities
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