

See Historic Episcopate see Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral.De bene esse is a Latin phrase meaning "of well being." In an American legal context, it means "conditionally," "provisionally," or "in anticipation of future need." It can also mean "A phrase applied to proceedings which are taken ex parte or provisionally and are allowed to stand as well done for the present." It is also used to indicate that a deposition may be used in place of a witness' live testimony in court, rather than merely to discover what the witness has to say.Īn appearance de bene esse is designed to permit a party to a proceeding to refuse to submit his person to the jurisdiction of the court unless it is finally determined that he has forever waived that right. A similar plan and understanding of episcopacy was the basis of the proposed Lutheran-Episcopal Concordat (1991). In 1955 the Convocations of Canterbury and York approved limited inter-communion between the Church of England and the Church of South India.
#De bene esse meaning full#
Nevertheless, the essays by Montefiore and Carey support full communion with the Church of South India because the episcopate is of the plene esse, or fullness, of the church-not the essence. Carey admits that the interim presence of nonepiscopally ordained clergy was an admitted "anomaly" for an episcopal church. But all future ordinands were to be episcopally ordained, so that the Church of South India would eventually be an episcopal church whose clergy were all episcopally ordained. Clergy who had not been episcopally ordained were not reordained by bishops. In the Church of South India, episcopal and non-episcopal churches came together on an episcopal basis. Define De bene esse by Webster's Dictionary, WordNet Lexical Database, Dictionary of Computing, Legal Dictionary, Medical Dictionary, Dream Dictionary. This collection of essays was published in response to the controversy concerning whether the Church of England should enter into full communion with the Church of South India.

Carey in The Historic Episcopate (1954), edited by Carey. The term plene esse was used in essays by H. The other three elements of the Lambeth Conference Resolution of 1888 are similar to the Chicago declaration, except that the Apostles' Creed as the Baptismal Symbol is mentioned along with the Nicene Creed as the sufficient statement of Christian faith. The other three "essential" parts identified by the House of Bishops in 1886 were the Holy Scriptures of the OT and NT as the revealed Word of God the Nicene Creed as the sufficient statement of Christian faith and the two sacraments of Baptism and the Supper of the Lord, ministered with unfailing use of Christ's words of institution and of the elements ordained by Christ. See the Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral 1886, 1888 (BCP, pp.

The historic episcopate (as locally adapted) was identified by the Quadrilateral adopted by the House of Bishops in 1886 as one of the four parts of the sacred deposit of the faith that are "essential to the restoration of unity among the divided branches of Christendom." The historic episcopate was likewise identified by the Lambeth Conference of 1888 as one of the four bases for Home Reunion.
