The bishop´s responsibility is to:
- Ordain ministers, install pastors and senior pastors, and to install other agents of the church and of diaconate in office.
- Dedicate new or renovated sacral objects and other church premises and diaconal objects, and other internal equipment.
- Visit congregations and keep up an active contact with them.
- Represent the church outwardly and negotiate on behalf of the church council.
- Preside over the church council and oversee the implementation of its resolutions.
- Publish circulars.
- By agreement of the church council to publish pastoral letters.
- Exercise visitations in the circuit and congregations.
- Convene a church-wide conference of ministers to discuss various and pastoral affairs.
- Preside over examining boards (Pro ministerio exam).
- Grant permission to preach God´s Word to the preachers of other churches and students of theology. The ministers of the GEKE (Leuenberg Agreement) member churches with whom SECAC concluded a fellowship of pulpit and altar do not need this permission.
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