On the other hand there are the great non-episcopal Communions, standing for rich elements of truth, liberty and life which might otherwise have been obscured or neglected. ❋ Fr Timothy Matkin (2006)
I should hope that in preparation for it along the lines of recent Canadian proposals each communion, episcopal and non-episcopal, should contribute the whole of its separate ministry to so many of the ministers of the other as were willing to receive it. ❋ Unknown (1958)
These conversations and explorations were along the lines suggested in a sermon preached by the Archbishop of Canterbury in Cambridge in 1946 when, discussing a step forward in church relations, he said, The non-episcopal churches have accepted the principle that episcopacy must exist along with other elements in their united church. ❋ Unknown (1958)
If non-episcopal churches agree that it must come into the picture could they not take it and try it out on their own ground first. ❋ Unknown (1958)
Bishops of episcopal bodies and presidents of non-episcopal bodies presided alternately. ❋ Charles Henry (1925)
This contagion has become so widespread and extended that, so far as episcopal and non-episcopal Methodist bodies are concerned, it is epidemic; not only epidemic but endemic and pandemic. ❋ Charles Henry (1925)
The majority of the colonists were so overwhelmingly non-episcopal that the legislatures never seem to have insisted upon conformity, though they compelled church support. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Such non-episcopal village churches are plainly recent churches, which are managed, not by a college of presbyters, but by one or two presbyters. ❋ 1851-1930 (1908)
The Rev. William E. Johnston, was elected president, emphasizing thug the non-episcopal character of the denomination. ❋ United States. Bureau Of The Census. (1906)
But, now and then, among the non-episcopal buildings we find what is called distinctively a 'Meeting ❋ W.G. Tarrant (1890)
Churches of the East, the Roman Catholic communion, and the non-episcopal communions of the world. ❋ Unknown (1889)
Conference of evangelical Churchmen 'reiterated its conviction that the ministries of the organized non-episcopal Churches are real ministries of the Word and the sacraments' and prayed that the Lambeth Conference ❋ Unknown (1889)
Communions in East and West to whom 'the Anglican Communion is bound by many ties of common faith and tradition,' they addressed 'the great non-episcopal Communions standing for rich elements of truth, liberty and life which otherwise might have been obscured or neglected, with whom we are closely linked by many affinities, racial, historical and spiritual.' ❋ Unknown (1889)
The non-episcopal bodies required that it be made plain that no theory of the episcopate should be regarded as official and that their constituencies should continue to have full liberty of communion with non-episcopal Churches after the lapse of the term of thirty years. ❋ Unknown (1889)
The right of such ministers to exercise intercommunion and intercelebration with non-episcopal ❋ Unknown (1889)
I did not, however, love the extreme rigour of the book in its treatment of non-episcopal communions. ❋ John Morley (1880)
During the years when the foolish attempt to unite the non-episcopal Churches into one Church gave so great an impetus to disintegration in the Wesleyan Church, Mr. Crooks stood as the chief standard-bearer of his Church, and exercised an influence which was blessed of God as the chief means of saving that denomination from dissolution, and in turning again in its favor the tide of prosperity. ❋ Elizabeth Willits Crooks (1875)
In the eyes of the Erastian and also in the eyes of the Puritan the theory of the spiritual unity of these two bodies, and the various sacerdotal consequences that were inferred from it, seemed incredible, nor did the first generation of our reformers shrink from communion, sympathy and co-operation with the non-episcopal Protestants of the ❋ William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1870)
It has touched even puritanical and non-episcopal bodies, and it is sometimes combined with extremely latitudinarian opinions. ❋ William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1870)
