All bishops submit their resignation to the Pope on their 75th birthday.

Canon law requires all bishops to submit a letter to the Pope offering their retirement at 75, Mr. Zwilling said.

In support of their petition the bishops submitted a statement of the number of Irish ecclesiastics receiving education on the Continent when the French Revolution began.

While applauding the project itself, many bishops around the world, including the conference of bishops in the United States, submitted extensive criticisms of the draft.

The mandement was censured by Clement XI on 18 January 1710, and the bishop finally submitted in a long letter to Clement on 28 February 1713.

Pope Gregory sent more missionaries in 601, along with encouraging letters and gifts for the churches, although attempts to persuade the native Celtic bishops to submit to Augustine's authority failed.

Canon 401 1 of the Code of Canon Law states that diocesan bishops must submit their resignation to the pope on reaching the age of 75.

All three bishops then submitted and surrendered their secular offices and castles.

The bishops and the monks in the Mar Mathai's Monastery, should submit to and obey the Maphrian whose seat is in Tigris.

Only one bishop did not submit: Markos Eugenikos, Metropolitan of Ephesus, and without his signature the document of Union between East-West fell inactive.