How To Use Bishop In A Sentence

CANON LXXXI: We have said that a Bishop, or a Presbyter must not descend himself into public offices, but must attend to ecclesiastical needs.
Bishop Bernard Fellay revealed to ZENIT that the congregation told him to expect the publication of a statement issued "motu proprio" (on his own initiative) by Benedict XVI on the new structure of Ecclesia Dei before June 20. Fellay: Restructuring of Ecclesia Dei Imminent
Not lords nor proletariats nor bishops nor husbands nor co-respondents nor virgins nor adultresses nor uncles nor noses. Touch and Go
His Eminence Don Pelasio de Labastida, an eighteenth century bishop of Mexico City set a scandalous example of such indulgence in earthly pleasures. To the charreada with stars in her eyes
Lord Fletcher, said the Bishop, was a man of unimpeachable integrity and character.

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By 1000 most English bishops were monks, and both bishops and abbots deliberated with lay magnates in the king's council.
Black prepares the extended fianchetto of his light Bishop with… b7-b5.
Will this issue be dealt with at the next synod of bishops? Times, Sunday Times
It is expected that the consistory will influence the agenda for next October's synod of bishops in Rome.
Former Suffragan Bishop of Southampton, the Rt Rev Jonathan Gledhill, ordained Cate as a deacon at Romsey Abbey in 2001 and the curate was priested the following year.
Saint Blaise was a physician and bishop of Sebaste modern Sivas, Armenia. Archive 2009-02-01
The upper part of the gablet over the centre doorway is of the seventeenth century, and bears the shield of Sir George Hay of Kinfauns, who rented the lands of the bishopric about the beginning of the seventeenth century, the crozier being added to the shield in connection with the lands of the see. [ Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys
A dedication ceremony is to be performed by the Bishop of Bradford, the Rt Rev David James, next month.
All 44 diocesan bishops and 10 suffragans were asked to attend the meeting to discuss October's Windsor Report, a document produced to examine the crisis.
He resigned from his post as Bishop when the scandal broke.
Then the Archbishop of Canterbury stepped forward, mitre and all, and called us, in sonorous tones, to prayer. ANTI-ICE
The district or churches under the jurisdiction of a bishop; a bishopric.
Howbeit when they should come to sit downe at dinner, there kindled a strife betwixt the said two bishops about their places, bicause the bishop of London, for that he had beene ordeined long before the archbishop, and therefore not onelie as deane to the see of Canturburie, but also by reason of prioritie, pretended to haue the vpper seat. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (3 of 12) Henrie I.
Pope Honorius, the third of that name, forbade by a decretal from that time forward the method of choosing bishops by lot. A Philosophical Dictionary
Only the bishops have retained the augurial staff, called the crosier; which was the distinctive mark of the dignity of augur; so that the symbol of falsehood has become the symbol of truth. A Philosophical Dictionary
The alliance of king and pope ensured that no more Winchelseys became archbishops.
If anyone can help to reawaken people's interest and support in Christianity, our new archbishop certainly can - and I wish him well in his new and elevated position.
The bishops had almost absolute power .
Lord Coke does not assign that reason, but says, because they hold their bishopricks of the king _per baroniam_. Notes and Queries, Number 49, October 5, 1850
His speech was preceded by one from the Archbishop of Canterbury. Times, Sunday Times
For being summoned to come and receiue his consecration at Canturburie (as alreadie yee haue heard) through counsell of the canons Yorke he refused so to doo: bicause they informed him that if he so did, it should be greatlie preiudiciall to the liberties of that sée, whose archbishop was of like authoritie in all things vnto the archbishop of Canturburie, so that he was bound onelie to fetch his consecration and benediction at Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (3 of 12) Henrie I.
When he announced it, the carefully prepped bishops pounced. Times, Sunday Times
Sechnall, his bishop; Mochta, his priest; Bishop Ere, his brehon; Bishop The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings
By 1134, two of Sancho's sons had successively acceded to both thrones and died without heirs, leaving only one son left - Ramiro, Bishop of Barbastro-Roda.
They then entered Isabella's chamber, where they found her together with Mortimer and the Bishop of Lincoln.
The arch-bishop himself, Æthelnoth, came from Canterbury to witness our troth; I could scarce raise my eyes to him, knowing as he must every blemish of my soul.
The bishop is represented as in the act of benediction, with a pastoral staff, and in full pontificals; his head is shown as resting on a cushion, and is surmounted by a trefoil arch with a crocketed gable, and a censer-bearing angel on each side. Ely Cathedral
But his prodigality, which is excessive, after a time brought him to London; and the bishop imagined that, with his help, my scruples would at last be conquered. The Adventures of Hugh Trevor
Under these patriarchates and exarchates came the eparchies under metropolitans; they had under them the bishops of the various cities. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
It is however quite certain that Ferne was held, along with the Abbacy of Kelso _in commendam_, by Andrew Stewart, Bishop of Caithness, who died in 1517. The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
White should have some advantage here as he has the bishop pair in an open position. Times, Sunday Times
The Archbishop's implied command that he leave the matter alone he decided to ignore.
He called the grooms, and we made ready, taking the horses out to where the folk of the archbishop waited in the sunny courtyard, and there leaving them. A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford
The second job of the priory was to act as a London home for the Bishop of St. Mary of Bethlehem.
Exchanging dark-squared bishops is of course a useful positional objective but will White have enough compensation?
All that Anselm demanded was that the essential basis for carrying out his duties as archbishop should remain inviolate.
Tranmere's reply was instant and decisive, Bishop volleying the winner from a free kick.
The King's religious policies, strictly applied by Archbishop Laud, gave offence to the Puritan merchants and artisans.
Last night, in an address to bishops in Nigeria, Pope John Paul II insisted that priests must live celibate lives and avoid scandalous behaviour.
The bishops are not named in the writ. The Sun
The bishop was then evicted from his home.
With central and bishop pawns, practically all positions with a remote king are lost.
If Black retires the Bishop from his unsafe position, White permanently prevents Black from castling, which is bound to be fatal in view of the open K file -- e.g. 11. ... Chess Strategy
The former Archbishop of Canterbury hit out yesterday at extreme atheists who are intolerant of religious views and attempt to deny Christians a voice in public debate.
I'm positive the Bishop will not appoint another Anglo-Catholic. GOODBYE CURATE
When Bishop and Williams (no relation to the writer) were hanged for burking, i.e., murdering people in order to provide "subjects" for dissection, their bodies were sent to Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882
Martyrs did not entirely disappear, but they were different from their late antique predecessors; they might be bishops killed in political strife, missionaries killed by pagans, or confessors being ‘living dead’.
Most of the early medieval saints were bishops, abbots, and abbesses with an impeccable social pedigree.
Nothing more could add to his notoriety except a deathbed conversion, and the Scottish bishop and historian Gilbert Burnet was to provide it.
As the Archbishop of Bordeaux is in your entourage, he could officiate. HERE BE DRAGONS
Furthermore, although the pope and his bishops may truly believe a zygote is a "preborn child," the truth is that a great number of active Catholics do not, and they vote, in great numbers, accordingly. Michele Somerville: Catholic Bishops Endanger Church Tax Exempt Status
On his arrival, M. Myriel was installed in the episcopal palace with the honors required by the Imperial decrees, which class a bishop immediately after a major-general.
Sublime Frequencies -- the reissue label helmed by onetime Sun City Girl Alan Bishop -- has produced some of the most challenging and fulfilling reissues in the past 10 years. NPR Topics: News
The bishop, as spiritual elder, officiates at baptisms, weddings, communions, funerals, ordinations, and membership meetings.
The diocese feels a sense of gratitude for the gentle leadership which Bishop Laurence Ryan has given, first as coadjutor to Bishop Patrick Lennon and since late 1987 as bishop of the diocese.
For some time there was a conflict of jurisdiction between the bishop's reeves and the interests of the Gild Merchant.
In one case, the bishop and I believed that the allegations met the standard and so referred the matter to the standing committee, which then issued a presentment.
Fight for the bishops, says a priest, with his gown and rochet — Stand stout for the Kirk, cries a minister, in a A Legend of Montrose
The hospitality figures appear within statistics showing what it costs to run the two archbishoprics and other items, including travel and subsistence.
Bishop Silvester officiated at the funeral.
Paul of Samosata - Bishop of Antioch, adoptionist, condemned at 269 CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
That that personage now in possession of the bishop of Bristoll Deane of Yorke (it being an indowment of the said Deanerie) such slender care hath bene had by him for the preaching of the Gospell unto the said parishioners, and giving them that Christianlike and necessarie instru [~c] on which is fitting, as for a long time they scarce had any sermon at all amongest them. The Evolution of an English Town
There may be something amusing in a bishop's gaiters, but only because they are a bishop's.
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, the priapic bishop of Autun who became France's diplomat for all seasons he served and survived both the Revolution and Napoleon, famously remarked that no one who had not lived during the ancien régime could have any idea of how sweet life could be. Why They All Came to Versailles
The only real help here is for bishops to grasp the true nature of their office and live it out.
While they were thus embarrassed, a large chest was brought and deposited in the presbytery for the Bishop, by two unknown horsemen, who departed on the instant.
In the East, they also delegated the chrismation and invocation of the HS, but in the West, the bishops reserved these things to themselves. Stand Firm
Jennifer Bishop, a 1991 graduate, stood with her arm around her daughter, Taylor Newby, a freshman at Chantilly High. Chantilly High School mourns 'spirit shed,' a community's canvas for decades
It was then that we planned to break up the old sectionalizing, localizing, mischief-breeding, contiguous districts, and establish a genuine general superintendence, and general fund system, to pay all the Bishops an equal salary. Sketch of the Early History of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church with Jubilee Souvenir and an Appendix
Roman bishops many lands of the exarchate, which was designated the A Philosophical Dictionary
In the final analysis, the king's power was greater than the bishop's.
“He’s behaved like a perfect peeg!” she said gruffly, pronouncing the word cochon as though she referred to Joan of Arc’s contemporary, Bishop Cauchon. Within a Budding Grove
Charles Duvall, a moderate bishop from Florida's panhandle, wrote in an August pastoral letter to his flock that if God had joined them together, he as bishop would work to keep them that way.
Under the supervision of the Bishop of London, commissaries were appointed in many colonies to provide supervision and support of church life.
Public servants should be open and honest and not engage in corruption and "wheeler-dealing", Anglican Archbishop Njongonkulu ANC Daily News Briefing
The figure, wearing the distinctive mitre - the ceremonial hat of a bishop - replaces an eroded piece of decorative stonework.
Gathered about the Cross with St. Macarius and St. Helena are bishops, priests, and hymnographers.
In the year of the anniversary we shall come together as bishops around the call to prayer. Times, Sunday Times
The title of archbishop ceased to be used for these two sees of the episcopal church in Scotland after the revolution of 1688.
The patriarchate of Moscow was abolished by Peter the Great in 1721 and replaced by a Holy Synod of bishops which was controlled by a lay official, the chief procurator.
A moment behind her, Bishop entered the chamber, robes a-flap.
Clergy and lay deputies to a special convention of the diocese on November 7 voted to invite Bishop Duncan back into leadership of the diocese 50 days after the House of Bishops of The Episcopal Church voted to remove ( "depose") him. Stand Firm
Schuckardt is wearing the mozetta, which is worn by the Pope and Cardinals everywhere, and by Archbishops and Bishops in their dioceses with a few exceptions.
The apostolic visitation is going to be too little, too late, if the bishops and priests of the Church in the United States do not recognize what has happened and undertake their grave pastoral obligation to correct the errors of these communities. Transparency, Creativity, and Heresy
They are released now by officials anxious to dispel the myth that bishops, some of whom still occupy grand palaces and stately castles, enjoy a life of luxury.
The crozier is an ornate staff resembling a shepherd’s crook, which is held by bishops to symbolize their role as shepherds of Christ’s flock. A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art
In the earliest times the subsellia, usually of stone, of the clergy were placed to the right and left of the cathedra of the bishop in the apse of the basilica. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
In specifying severe judgment, as is widely recommended, are the bishops engaged in a form of retribution for having erred in the past by latitudinarian excess?
I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace. Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury.
As stated above, there is no legal penalty for ignoring Summorum Pontificum as we have seen worldwide albeit morally, there is also no penality for ignoring the bishop either. Banning even the DISCUSSION of the Motu Proprio?
By which means it is, yet by my courtesy, that scarce any kind of men live more voluptuously or with less trouble; as believing that Christ will be well enough pleased if in their mystical and almost mimical pontificality, ceremonies, titles of holiness and the like, and blessing and cursing, they play the parts of bishops. In Praise of Folly
His speech was preceded by one from the Archbishop of Canterbury. Times, Sunday Times
Archbishop Neary recalled that the men and boys of the surrounding parishes had carried stones, timber and cement to the summit during the construction of the oratory in the early 1900s.
The bishop blessed the new church.
The bishop of London apparently agreed and prohibited the oratorio from being performed. Christianity Today
Bishop Donal McKeown administered the sacrament of confirmation to children in the Parish on Thursday.
In June 1162 Becket was consecrated archbishop of Canterbury.
Bishops' activities were confined to their own dioceses and monasteries exempted from episcopal interference.
In this synod was Stigand the archbishop of Canturburie depriued of his bishoprike, for three speciall causes. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6) England (1 of 12) William the Conqueror
It's noticeable that the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in Alfred's time, by which time it was being written more or less contemporarily with events, records celestial phenomena, consecrations of bishops and deaths of bishops, kings and ealdormen, but not births, not even the births of King Alfred's children. Acha of Deira and Bernicia: daughter, sister, wife and mother of kings
An unearthly silence brooded in the cabin, broken only by Bishop filling a basin from the water-bucket, and by Corliss seeking out his smallest and daintiest house-moccasins and his warmest socks. CHAPTER 20
Archbishop of Toulouse! answer all the three, with the clearest instantaneous concord; and rush off to propose him to the King; 'in such haste,' says Besenval, 'that M. de Lamoignon had to borrow a simarre,' seemingly some kind of cloth apparatus necessary for that. The French Revolution
Black is a rook for bishop ahead but has problems because his knight on c4 is stuck. Times, Sunday Times
Georgia had seen Ally’s kindergarten report with the name Allison Hope Bishop-Harmon across the top. Moon Dance
Rome was still the lawful mistress of the world: the pope and the emperor, the bishop and general, had abdicated their station by an inglorious retreat to the Rhone and the Danube; but if she could resume her virtue, the republic might again vindicate her liberty and dominion. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Black intends to fianchetto his Bishop on g7, but he's in for a surprise.
father, who's a bishop.
White a little better as he has more space and the bishop pair. Times, Sunday Times
The marriage ceremony was performed by the bishop.
There are substantial Roma communities in all European countries, not just Romania and Bulgaria," said Virgil Bercea, the Greek Catholic bishop of Oradea. Romania Church Leaders Condemn Roma Deportations
Basil:Greek Christian leader who was bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia after a. d. 370 and a vigorous opponent of arianism .
Apart from the foregoing liturgical uses, a flabellum, in the shape of a fan, later of an umbrella or canopy, was used as a mark of honour for bishops and princes. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
In 1890 Edward King was tried before Archbishop Edward Benson for ritual practices, after a churchwarden from Cleethorpes witnessed the bishop celebrate the Eucharist at St Peter at Gowts Church in Lincoln. Bishop of the Poor: Edward King reinvented the role of diocesan bishop
Thus it was that at 2.00 pm on the 30th January 1649 Charles mounted the execution platform accompanied only by Bishop Juxon.
Archbishop Brady made his comments at a press conference following the extraordinary meeting of the Catholic Bishops in Maynooth yesterday.
The archdeacon John Collas will administer the Adelaide diocese until a new archbishop is found early next year.
The second Catholic woman chirps, ‘Well, my son is a Bishop.’
He defied Pope John Paul II by consecrating four bishops without his approval.
On the one hand, the pieces were easily distinguishable by easily recognisable symbols atop a pedestal - the King with a crown, the Queen with a coronet and the bishop by a mitre.
Eventually I got to drive one of the motor boats up and down the river, to Bishopthorpe Palace and Nun Monkton.
He persuaded the bishop of London to be a governor and Newton to become a deputy governor.
In 1982, shortly after he was released from prison, Jin petitioned the government to allow him to visit the imprisoned Bishop Kung. Keeping Faith
The document reveals that the bishop's menu would have included a range of meats, from mutton and beef to veal, geese, rabbit, duck and lamb.
A first step is for bishops to recommit themselves, in the spirit of penance and reconciliation, to the annual independent reviews.
To simplify White's task and avoid certain lines, Kosten recommends the immediate fianchetto of White's king bishop after 1… e5, 1… c5, 1… Nf6, and even 1… e6 and 1… e6.
I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace. Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury.
Moscow has refused to confirm him as bishop of the diocese. Times, Sunday Times
Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), raising questions Oscar Cruz yesterday slammed the Arroyo administration for continuously invoking executive privilege over what he called dubious government contracts, the latest WN.com - Articles related to New Treatments Hold Hope for Failing Eyes
The larger southern Episcopal element was perfectly content to keep bishops three thousand miles away.
Misjudging the survival of Romano-British life, Gregory had planned archbishoprics based on London and York, but political realities were acknowledged in 601 when Augustine was enthroned as first archbishop of Canterbury.
The pope has made a openly declared and unshakeable anti-Semite a legitimate bishop," Politi added.
The designs made by eight students from the Bishop Cotton Girls' School were chosen for printing as greeting cards, of the 15 designs that were selected.
Archbishop Sancroft was led to attempt a similar Comprehensive Scheme, so terrified was he at the dominance of the Roman Church in the Second James's reign: however, William's accession, and his becoming a nonjuror, crossed his design. Notes and Queries, Number 212, November 19, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
In the synods held under St. Cyprian, to deal with the lapsed, and in the synod of 256, which considered the question of re-baptism, there were present not only the bishops, but many priests and deacons, and even a very large representation of the laity. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
And then the king, to give relation to him of his penance, enjoined by Leo his predecessor, to re-edify a monastery of the glorious apostle S. Peter, and sent Alfred, the archbishop of York, to The Golden Legend, vol. 6
He was a docker, living in Artillery Lane off Bishopsgate, not far from Houndsditch.
In the bishops they saw pomposity and rampant corruption, disdain for biblical teaching, and addiction to ceremony. Christianity Today
He has a very active queen, good knight against bad bishop and White's exposed pawns to attack.
In the 1990s, a number of bishoprics in Germany, Luxembourg and France began to support his beatification by the Roman Catholic Church.
The choir stalls were moved from the chancel to their present position in the nave in 1961 to make room for the bishop's throne and canon's stalls.
Bishop Kenny won the boys 2A team title edging Estero by just three points with a team score of 106. Undefined
Bishop Harris was principal celebrant at the mass.
White nullifies any potential threat from the 'dragon' bishop. Times, Sunday Times
The marriage ceremony was performed by the bishop.
The see was afterwards known as the bishopric of Lismore, and contained the following deaneries: Kintyre, with twelve parishes; Glassary or Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys
Meanwhile Black is pinned on the back rank and is thus playing without half his pieces, the black queen-Rook and black queen-Bishop.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Bourchier, apparently had charge of the boys for a time, but Richard was later entrusted to the Earl of Warwick, whose lavish household was said to support 20,000 retainers.
If your Majesty considers it fitting to approve this so useful and even so necessary proposition, your bishop is of the opinion, as he has already intimated, that the see of the new bishopric can be determined, and that it may be entitled the bishopric of Panay or of Jaro -- which is a well-populated village, as I have said above. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing t
Looking at the readings from the Daily Office for today, I thought it would be nice to share St. Paul's words on this Advent greater feria about those who are called to exercise the ministry of episcope that is, bishops or "overseers". Archive 2005-12-01
To me, Li'l Shia seems born for screwball comedy; he has a ring-a-ding Joey Bishop-on-amphetamines style of delivery that never skips a syllable. Michael Bay, movie-making maverick?
In 1412-13 Bishop Wardlaw and Pope Benedict XIII incorporated and chartered St Andrews University, the nation's first.
In 2001, the cardinal wrote that he "rejoiced" when he discovered that a French bishop had sheltered an abusive priest from authorities. Rev. James Martin, S.J.: Sin Inside the Church
This is the work of Johann Beringer, professor in the University of Wurzburg and private physician to the Prince-Bishop -- the treatise bearing the title Lithographiae Wirceburgensis Specimen Primum, "illustrated with the marvellous likenesses of two hundred figured or rather insectiform stones. A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
Flavia thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishops Lacy are overand then Rupert Porson has an unfortunate rendezvous with electricity. The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley: Book summary
But howsoeuer the matter went, archbishop Robert was glad to depart out of the realme, and going to Rome, made complaint in the court there, of the iniuries that were offred him: but in returning through Normandie, he died in the abbeie of Gemmeticum, where he had bene moonke before his comming into England. Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (8 of 8) The Eight Booke of the Historie of England
Indians, who remained outside the tribunal's jurisdiction, were subject to a parallel institution, the Juzgado General de Indios, founded in 1592, or the Provisorato de naturales, the tribunal for the archbishopric of Mexico that was charged with Indian affairs and oversaw matters of superstition, idolatry, witchcraft, and bigamy. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
Although additions and expansions have been made to suit its occupants, the Bishop's House at Fort Kochi can instantly take you on a nostalgic ride.
Bishop Wilton is a delightful village, strung linear along a sparkling beck, containing old brick houses in a little valley terraced with sinuous greens.
He was a conspicuous pluralist in the diocese, annexing to his bishopric a number of Salisbury prebends, two abbeys, and several churches.
The choir stalls were moved from the chancel to their present position in the nave in 1961 to make room for the bishop's throne and canon's stalls.
The 1914 Act, among other provisions, deprived the Welsh bishops of their seats in the House of Lords, and abolished private patronage.
In any event, the sense at the meeting was that the bishops need to focus on putting the Catholic house in order, concentrating on evangelization, catechesis, the Eucharist, and the priesthood.
Winning one more pawn, Saravanan never looked back and closed in on his opponent in a rook-bishop-knight ending by queening his pawn.
Everybody who does this job has an epiphany moment, says Brett Bishop, the fifth generation of his family to work the Little Skookum inlet, an oysterman in arguably America's greatest oyster grounds, Washington's South Puget Sound. The American Oyster Paradise
Elizabeth Bishop is a cross-breed, an innovative formalist whose work always surprises, dead now three decades. Poetry and Jazz, Strange Bedmates, Sated at Last
n the morning he did not answer the summons to breakfast, and when Mr. Thomas went to learn what the difficulty was, he found the Bishop without a gaiter.
Whereas Erasmus wears the black robes of an academic, the archbishop dresses in priestly white.
Nodding again, Bishop takes a swallow of cold San Pellegrino before continuing.
Villagers in Bishopton and the surrounding area started to complain because they were annoyed by the irregularity of the service.
As late as 1949, more than 80 percent of China’s dioceses remained under the control of European bishops who had little interest in relinquishing their sees to the Chinese. Keeping Faith
With the chevy ss impala of the gorgon sumptuosity bidentate, it is eventual that lawfully traffic dysthymia be bishop. Rational Review
Bishops have gone to court to sue each other over claims to property and funding. Times, Sunday Times
In the eighth century we read (Vita Stephani, III) of the most ancient custom in virtue of which seven of these bishops, called hebdomadarii, celebrated Mass in turn in place of the pope and were called episcopi cardinales, from being permanently attached to the cardo, that is the cathedral church of Rome; but we are not told who they were. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
To mediate in such a dispute was the dreariest occupation of a bishop.
In 1333 he made a rare journey abroad to deliver the new archbishop, John Stratford, his pallium.
The handling of the Regensburg address and of the recent lifting of the excommunication from the SSPX bishops was unsatisfactory. Pope Benedict XVI, the ecclesiastically incorrect" pontiff
As a result, the papal nuncio told a group of catechists that ‘The church is in danger because of the insane behavior of this archbishop.’
My appeal to all pastors, bishops, reverends and other church leaders, is that they should not sell their birthright to any organisation for the sake of money.
A shrine dedicated to a 12th century Archbishop of York and smashed during the Reformation is being recreated in the city.
And her inquisitor was the so-called 'Birther Bishop', Anabaptist minister Ron McCrae, who is deeply opposed to Obama, and - say critics - cynically set out to trap her. Home | Mail Online
It is not a pilgrimage, because the English are really neither Jews nor Christians, but follow a sort of religion of their own, which is made every year by their bishops, one of whom they have sent to Jerusalem, in what they call a parliament, a college of muftis; you understand. Tancred Or, The New Crusade
Another archbishop believes the government ‘is destroying our international reputation, brutalising the nation's attitudes and making us a less compassionate people’.
Key TMS moments during 1981's big Headingley turnaround included a lengthy and entirely straight discussion of the correct way to address a bishop in written correspondence "The Most Reverend", a saliva-drenched interlude of almost silent on-air cake-munching and a bit where Fred Trueman's musings on Graham Dilley are accompanied by a loud and persistent "ching! ching!" noise, which proves to be Trueman lighting his pipe. My Beef with England: if only we had an Ian Botham now | Barney Ronay
All is as unsubstantial, as vague and shadowy, as Coleridge's "image of a rock," or Bishop Berkeley's "ghost of a departed quantity," as he once defined a fluxion. Life: Its True Genesis
The Bishop spoke with apparent vexation, but his heart had bounded in the upspring of a great relief. The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century
Archbishop Hunt-hausen also vocalized his beliefs that women and homosexuals should be more active in the church.
The appointment to the bishopric was the beginning of a new system. William the Conqueror
Now the bishops themselves seem to have realised what an absurd idea it was. Times, Sunday Times
To move her bishop to strike his knight would leave the king open on two sides without escape, a checkmate.
Bishop Harris was principal celebrant at the mass.
In Catholicism, when the Bishop of Rome invokes his authority as Successor of Peter and Vicar of Christ, and speaks from the Chair of Peter, his pronouncement is binding on all Catholics throughout the world. Snow Angels
Billy Graham to Catholic bishops to leaders of the Promise Keepers has had something to say about gays and religion.
You play the role of Aronos Schuler, once a young Bishop in Moscow and the descendant of a 12th century German monk, now a burned-out loner who doesn't even believe in a god any more.
Bishop Packer will act as chief consecrator on behalf of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Metropolitan of the province.
Manning began the attack on Russell, calling on all the churches in his bishopric to rouse their parishioners in opposition.