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The Dennis Canon is a common (though unofficial and unfavored) name used for Title I.7.4 (as presently numbered) of the Canons of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America (also called The Episcopal Church, or TEC). The Canon seeks to impose a trust in favor of the Episcopal Church, on property held by a local group of Episcopal ...
The Episcopal Church in crisis: How sex, the bible, and authority are dividing the faithful (Greenwood, 2008). Painter, Bordon W. "The Vestry in Colonial New England." Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church 44#4 (1975): 381–408. in JSTOR; Prichard, Robert W., ed. Readings from the History of the Episcopal Church. (1986).
In some Church of England dioceses, the title Prebendary is used instead of Canon when the cleric is involved administratively with a cathedral. Canons may be members of the diocesan or bishop's staff rather than the cathedral staff, such as in the United States Episcopal Church , where a diocese's "Canon to the Ordinary" is a senior priest who ...
Each of the autonomous member churches of the communion, however, does have a canonical system. Some, such as the Church of England, has an ancient, highly developed canon law while others, such as the Episcopal Church in the United States have more recently developed canonical systems originally based on the English canon law.
Missionary to the Syriac Orthodox Church (Mardin, Turkey) [21] 48 Alonzo Potter: 18 19 29: 1845 III Pennsylvania [N 9] 49 George Burgess: 18 19 40: 1847 I Maine: 50 George Upfold: 27 28 31: 1849 II Indiana (Indianapolis) 51 William Mercer Green (grandfather) 30 33 43: 1850 I Mississippi [N 10] 52 John Payne: 22 38 39: 1851 Missionary, Cape ...
Sean Rowe, a 49-year-old bishop from western Pennsylvania, on Wednesday became the youngest person ever elected as leader of the Episcopal Church. Rowe, who leads two small dioceses along Lake ...
In the Episcopal Church (USA), canons in canon law are "the written rules that provide a code of laws for the governance of the church. The canons of the Episcopal Church are enacted by the General Convention. Canons of the Episcopal Church may only be enacted, amended, or repealed by concurrent resolution of the House of Deputies and the House ...
Historical denominations include the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Church, the European Lutheran churches (Porvoo Communion), the Moravian Church, the Old Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, and the Assyrian Church of the East. The definition of the historical episcopate is to some extent an open question.