RLGA02H3 Quiz: Second Term Test Study Guide

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Bishop: greek work epiokopos" for supervisor, the supervising priest of a district called a diocese. In some branches of christianity the bishop has charge of ordaining priests by laying on the hands" on the head of the person inducted. Similarly, it was the bishop making his rounds in his diocese who could confirm the baptism of new initiates into the community. A scriptural canon is the list of books acknowledged as scripture. The list of acknowledged saints is likewise a canon. It includes the four gospels that had achieved universal acceptance through christendom. Canon law is the accumulated body of church regulations and discipline. Clergy subject to the rule of a particular cathedral or congregation are also sometimes termed canons. Marcion was excommunicated by the church since he come out with his own canon which rejected mathew and only included ten letters by paul and an edited text of luke"s gospels and acts.

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