How To Use Bishopric In A Sentence

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
The district or churches under the jurisdiction of a bishop; a bishopric.
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
The hospitality figures appear within statistics showing what it costs to run the two archbishoprics and other items, including travel and subsistence.
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.

In the 1990s, a number of bishoprics in Germany, Luxembourg and France began to support his beatification by the Roman Catholic Church.
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
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
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
He was a conspicuous pluralist in the diocese, annexing to his bishopric a number of Salisbury prebends, two abbeys, and several churches.
The appointment to the bishopric was the beginning of a new system. William the Conqueror
Manning began the attack on Russell, calling on all the churches in his bishopric to rouse their parishioners in opposition.
Sweden acquired West Pomerania including Stettin and the Oder Estuary, Wismar in Mecklenburg and the bishoprics of Bremen and Verdun.
He subsequently begged Hugh to send six monks to England to minister to the spiritual needs of the Court, and renewed his request in 1078, promising to appoint twelve of the Cluniac Congregation to bishoprics and abbacies within the kingdom. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
The Anglican Catholic Church now includes 15 dioceses in the Americas, the United Kingdom and Australia, plus a bishopric in New Zealand, and deaneries in Spain and South America.
It figures for the first time in a Latin episcopal notitia, dating probably from the eleventh century, where it is given under the name of Legionum, between the Bishoprics of Diocæsarea and Capitolias The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
As well as a variety of service activities, Pavia also included dwellings to accommodate the representatives of the various bishoprics and monasteries during convocations of the kingdom's assemblies and synods.
Nobles occupied all bishoprics and all the choicest abbacies and canonries.
Any road to Austria would have to cross the Rhön mountains and a myriad of tiny margravates and bishoprics, then continue through the Bavarian forests until it reached the border.
If you have this developing episcopacy, that's just the Greek sort of sounding word for bishop or bishopric or something like that.
The Domenican prelate had reluctantly accepted the papal tiara in 1724, leaving with great regret his bishopric in Benevento.
The distribution and control of offices, such as countships, abbacies, and bishoprics, became the main foci of the political rivalries.
At one stage in the early 17th century, by about 1615 when there's a convocation, there are six or seven bishoprics held by Scots bishops in Ireland in the Church of Ireland, in the established church.
bishoprics were received as appanages for the younger sons of great families
Around 1075 Adam of Bremen wrote a history of the archbishopric of Bremen and Hamburg, which until 1104 included the Scandinavian countries.
Cananor Cranganor, Cochin, which is a bishopric; and near Cape Comorin, the town and fort of Coulan. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07
The school where he taught before being raised to the bishopric of St Davids, seems to have boasted a considerable library of Latin classical and post-classical authors.
On the other hand, the list of archbishoprics, bishoprics, abbacies, and other dignities held by him, as enumerated by the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
In 1817 he retired to Dublin, where in 1818 he put his name forward for the vacant Catholic archbishopric of Armagh and was astonished when the pope said yes. American Connections
It thus ceased to be an archbishopric; the diocese now includes Killala and Achonry.
In this Regimento do auditorio ecclesiastico were detailed instructions for conducting visitations in the communities of the archbishopric.
The main proposal of the ‘Edict of Restitution’ was to ensure that the ‘Ecclesiastical Reservation’ was enforced and it affected the secularised archbishoprics of Bremen and Magdeburg, 12 bishoprics and over 100 religious houses.
For, one time, when our Lord made it known to him that he was about to die, he set out to make peace between certain clerks of his archbishopric, and he was of the opinion that in so doing he was giving a good end to life. Archive 2008-04-20
In the Church of England as it currently is, Canon Robinson couldn't have been a candidate for the bishopric.
I pleaded without success but the bishopric was unmoved, nor would they put me through to anyone else. NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
He later acquired the archbishoprics of Metz and Verdun as well.
The most he would order was a formal inquiry, asking his son to bring together ‘the senior and more important knights of the honour of Saltwood’ to determine what should belong to the archbishopric of Canterbury.
At the same time, he installed a Norman into the archbishopric of York, left vacant by the death of Ealdred in that year, and replaced four other English bishops implicated in the uprisings with Norman prelates.
Likewise,the Bishop of Rome was important, and there was struggling among different major bishoprics about which one would be leading.
Cobham might adorn a diplomatic mission but would surely mismanage a key political post such as that of Canterbury's archbishopric.
The account was carried forward into the following year, when he had acquired the nickname of ‘Hobbehod’, and indicates that he had been a tenant of the archbishopric of York.
The plan to appoint a brace of relatively young clerks to vacant bishoprics would destroy any prospect of him recovering effective control over the English church.
Scotland had no territorial episcopate before the 12th century and no archbishoprics before the late 15th century.
The execution of the Bull was confided to the Cardinal Archbishop of Toledo, by whom (4 June, 1876) the entire province of Ciudad Real was made a bishopric-priorate of the Military Orders, and for all canonical purposes constituted a territory vere et proprie nullius di cesis, i.e. exempt from all neighbouring jurisdiction. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
The second largest city is Santiago de Cuba in the province of Oriente, where the Roman Catholic archbishopric was established in the colonial era.
In the Neapolitan and Sicilian provinces, parishes were scattered, bishoprics penniless, and priests insubordinate: more than half the ecclesiastics convicted of felonies in 1874 served the cross in the Mezzogiorno.
I will acquaint him with my project, or if any worthy man will stand for any temporal or spiritual office or dignity, (for as he said of his archbishopric of Utopia, 'tis sanctus ambitus, and not amiss to be sought after,) it shall be freely given without all intercessions, bribes, letters, Anatomy of Melancholy
It is clear that there were established bishoprics in the four provinces of the Constantinian period, and ecclesiastics attended international church conferences.
Cobham might adorn a diplomatic mission but would surely mismanage a key political post such as that of Canterbury's archbishopric.
_Benefices, and mission villages of Indian natives in the diocese of the archbishopric of Manila both in charge of the secular priests and of religious; and the number of souls cared for in the archbishopric_. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 20 of 55 1621-1624 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
But the other bishops have place above all the barons of the realm, because they hold their bishopricks of the king per baroniam; but they give place to viscounts, earls, marquesses, and dukes. Notes and Queries, Number 46, September 14, 1850
And it was in York that he established a bishopric (only later to be England's second archbishopric), probably because that had been the centre of the old Romano-British diocese.
Out of one hundred bishoprics in the duchies of Spoleto and Benevento, hardly ten survived in 700, but all these dioceses were certainly very small, centred on little towns, and were mostly in hill country.
The angry King took possession of the revenues of the archbishopric, and banished all the relations and servants of Thomas a Becket, to the number of four hundred. A Child's History of England
The general purport of the Constitutions, when they were at last made known, was to transfer certain causes -- for example, those regarding presentations to benefices -- from the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical to that of the King's Courts, to restrain appeals to Rome, to prevent the excommunication of the king's officers and great vassals, and to sanction the king's appropriation of the revenues of bishoprics and abbacies. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
In the Neapolitan and Sicilian provinces, parishes were scattered, bishoprics penniless, and priests insubordinate: more than half the ecclesiastics convicted of felonies in 1874 served the cross in the Mezzogiorno.
And -- most baffling of all -- why had he resigned his bishopric ? ULTIMATE PRIZES
The twenty-five years 'bishopric is chronologically impossible, as it would make Peter, at the interview with Paul at Antioch, to have been then for some years bishop of Rome! Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
The king retained his influence over elections to abbacies and bishoprics, and continued to receive their revenues during vacancies.
He had passed swiftly through Cambridge and Oxford to become a leading Anglican theologian and had risen equally swiftly from a small bishopric in Wales to the seat of Canterbury. The Velvet Reformation
Arminians as well as Calvinists got bishoprics, for the King's priority was an effective bench of bishops rather than conformity to one theology.
a certain number of the bishops and abbots were invested by the king, while many others were appointed and invested by the nobles of the kingdom, the counts and the dukes (i.e. for the so-called mediate bishoprics). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
And, if a Bishop or two were removed or at least publicly chastised by Rome or something, it would put those in line for the bishopric on some kind of notice that taking moral stands is part of the job description.
Certainly his translation from the archbishopric of York had left him with little time.
On his return, he was impeached for incompetence and his bishopric sequestrated, until 1385.
In 1100 he enjoyed the revenues of three bishoprics and 12 abbeys.
He reestablished the Polish language in the schools and churches of Posen, that is of Prussian-Poland, nominated a Polish ecclesiastic to the archbishopric of that province, and conferred so many court dignities, government offices, and decorations upon the compatriots of the fair Jenny, as to give rise to the remark that the best road to imperial preferment at Berlin was to add the Polish and feminine termination of “ska” to one's name. The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe
A key figure here was the unscrupulous careerist Henri Costerius, a protonotary apostolic eager for a bishopric, who as a Borghese client, had powerful friends in Rome.
All of these numerous territories are full of confusion since each contain electorates, duchies, bishoprics, dominions of margraves, landgraves, princes and free cities - all jumbled together.
Many prebends and bishoprics were preserved for them; and even at this day the Turkish sultan makes canons and bishops, without the pope having ever made an imam or a mollah. A Philosophical Dictionary
It appointed loyal servants of the state to the bishoprics of Cologne and Trier and established a new university at Bonn, with a Protestant theological faculty.
In 1550 the bishopric of Gloucester fell vacant and Hooper seemed an ideal candidate.
Among the acquisitions of _France_ were the three bishoprics, _Metz_, _Toul_, and _Verdun_, and the landgraviate of _Upper_ and _Lower Outline of Universal History
Sweden gained West Pomerania, Wismar, Stettin, Mecklenburg; the bishoprics of Verden and Bremen which gave her control over the estuaries of the Elbe and Weser.
During the period of exile, five bishoprics had become vacant and could not be filled in a manner which would be acknowledged as valid under canon law.
Three young artists, Hendrick ter Brugghen, Gerrit van Honthorst, and Dirck van Baburen, travelled to Rome from Utrecht which, being the seat of the Catholic archbishopric, had maintained strong links with the papal city.
The Church kept control of the trials of criminous clerks, and appeals to Rome continued unabated, but the king retained his influence over elections to abbacies and bishoprics, and continued to receive their revenues during vacancies.
Perhaps a rule could be made that would preclude immediate election to a bishopric from a curial position.
It was an archbishopric during Christian times but fell to the Arabs in ad 636.
Any road to Austria would have to cross the Rhön mountains and a myriad of tiny margravates and bishoprics, then continue through the Bavarian forests until it reached the border.
And when I had learnt it as I could best understand it, and as I could most clearly interpret it, I translated it into English; and I will send a copy to every bishopric in my kingdom; and on each there is a clasp worth fifty mancus. The Early Middle Ages 500-1000
Some U.S. Lutherans oppose traditional Anglican views of ordinations and bishoprics.
The Borthwick Institute of Historical Research cares for one of the richest collections in Europe and is home to the records of the archbishopric of York and important families and politicians.
In the Church, nobles occupied all bishoprics and all the choicest abbacies and canonries, and under Louis XVI it became a matter of policy that they should.
Niderviller was situated in Metz, one of three bishoprics that had special fiscal status.
The large ‘empires,’ like the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., where I live, should be broken up into clusters of smaller bishoprics, under an archbishop where appropriate.
The considerable extent of this bishopric, which is the largest in the Filipinas Islands -- whose provinces are widely separated from one another, some of those provinces even being composed of numerous islets as its separate parts -- has given occasion for various petitions proposing the division of this bishopric into two parts, as a matter of greater advantage to the Church and to the State. 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
This town, as I observed before, belongs to the Bishop of Liege, but was now in a state of tumult and confusion, on account of the general revolt of the Low Countries, the townsmen taking part with the Netherlanders, notwithstanding the bishopric was a neutral State. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
It is clear that there were established bishoprics in the four provinces of the Constantinian period, and ecclesiastics attended international church conferences.
I ask whether he misses the palace and the politicking that went with his bishopric and he replies: ‘Oh no.’
Gradually these important cities evolved into the residences of a supervising priest or bishop, the territory became known as a _bishopric_, and the church as a _cathedral church_. The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization
The abbeys and bishoprics established there by distant Rome laid sturdy foundations.
He was appointed bishop of Worcester in 1535, but resigned his bishopric and was kept in custody for a year because he could not support the Act of the Six Articles, 1539.
The nobles founded many monasteries and the archbishopric of Rouen was coterminous with the duchy.
He pointed out that by letting off most of the glebe land and pretermitting David's "pocket-money" he might secure a young and energetic Welsh-speaking curate, the remainder of whose living-wage would -- he felt sure -- be found out of the diocesan funds of St. David's bishopric. Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement
He associated himself with the justiciar in the appointment of royal officials; he invoked the papal authority to put down "adulterine castles," and to prevent any baron having more than one royal stronghold in his custody; he prolonged the truce with France, and strove to pacify the Prince of North Wales; he procured the resumption of the royal domain, and rebuked Bishop Peter and the justiciar for remissness in dealing with Jewish usurers; he filled up bishoprics at his own discretion. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377)
In the Church, nobles occupied all bishoprics and all the choicest abbacies and canonries, and under Louis XVI it became a matter of policy that they should.
A little later Palladius himself was appointed to a bishopric, and sent to Ireland to minister to - and possibly ransom - enslaved Christian Britons abducted by Irish raiders.
There are about 500 parochial curacies throughout the islands under him in the four bishoprics, 167 of the curacies being situated in his own see; and several literary, charitable, and pious institutions at Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850
One of the most curious theological knaveries ever practised is, in my opinion, that of a small bishop — the narrative asserts that he was a Biscayan bishop; however, we shall certainly, at some future period find out both his name and his bishopric — whose diocese was partly in Biscay and partly in France. A Philosophical Dictionary
The noose became even tighter when the bishopric of Prague was subordinated to the German archbishopric of Mainz.
He was made bishop of Dunkeld in 1544 and three years later, after the murder of Cardinal Beaton, was translated to the archbishopric of St Andrews and primacy.
The kings of Mercia had a royal centre at Tamworth, and the Mercian bishopric later, temporarily, an archbishopric was based at Lichfield. Staffordshire Hoard
What are the authorities doing, appointing a man like that to a bishopric ? ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
Of course, Tyringham did receive a number of visits a year from the ministry of the Shaker bishopric to which it belonged.
Though the modern bishopric was not carved out of the York diocese until 1836, Ripon's early ecclesiastical history is inextricably associated with Wilfrid.
York was the archbishopric of the old kingdom of the Northumbrians.
But he no sooner got well again than he repented of his repentance, and persisted in wrongfully keeping to himself some of the wealth belonging to the archbishopric. A Child's History of England
The Liberal government sought to suppress some of the bishoprics of the Church of Ireland to divert the money derived from these sees elsewhere.
Kincardineshire; and, although the see was lessened by the creation of new bishoprics, the importance of St. Andrews was always great, for at the Reformation the primate's ecclesiastical jurisdiction included 2 archdeaconries, 9 rural deaneries, the patronage of 131 benefices, the administration of 245 parishes. Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys
The same point can be illustrated from the solid profit which was derived from the expanding royal protection of bishoprics.
The crusaders captured Tyre and established an archbishopric there - the remains of their cathedral still stand - it became one of the chief cities of the Latin kings of Jerusalem.
The vast majority of nobles could not enter the Estates, because the king only appointed illustrious families to bishoprics, and baronies were extremely expensive family property.
In Mechlin the organ of the archbishopric, which is styled "La Vie diocésaine", receives contributions from Cardinal Mercier. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
The Domenican prelate had reluctantly accepted the papal tiara in 1724, leaving with great regret his bishopric in Benevento.
This was the reflection which cheered the traveller when he began to search for Senez, an ancient city of the Romans which was christianised in the early centuries and enjoyed the rank of Bishopric until the Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1
By the end of October, he was sacked from his bishopric in Winchester and as Abbot of St Albans.
His archbishopric and his nomination to the cardinalship required more discussion. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
His foreign policy was, as Richelieu's had often been, indifferent to the interests of Catholicism: the Peace of Westphalia gave its solemn sanction to the legal existence of Calvinism in Germany, and, while the nuncio vainly protested, Protestant princes were rewarded with secularized bishoprics and abbacies for their political opposition to The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
Vaison was christianised by Saint Ruf, her Bishopric was founded, and in Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1
This ‘ecclesiastical engineering’, as it has been described, was completed in 1152 when the council of Kells-Mellifont created two further archbishoprics, Dublin and Tuam, under the primacy of Armagh.
Moray, of March, and Dunbar [1] departed from the great host, they took their way thinking to pass the water and to enter into the bishopric of Durham, and to ride to the town and then to return, brenning and exiling the country and so to come to Newcastle and to lodge there in the town in the despite of all the Englishmen. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
The important segment of the archbishopric archives are archidiaconal reports about religious, economical, political and moral circumstances in individual parishes from 1615 till our days.
Trade brought about a rapid expansion of towns and villages and bishoprics were founded at Pozna, Cracow, Wrocaw, Koobrzeg, with the archbishopric at Gniezno.
By the 15th century there are ample records of a thriving and developing musical life in Poland, not only in monasteries and bishoprics but also in the aristocratic courts.
Item, the said abbot hath alienate and sold the jewels and plate of the monastery, to the value of five hundred marks, _to purchase of the Bishop of Rome his bulls to be a bishop, and to annex the said abbey to his bishopric, to that intent that he should not for his misdeeds be punished, or deprived from his said abbey_. Short Studies on Great Subjects
he uttered no protest against the writ in which William King of England - the new-fangled title was now coming in - announced to all his faithful subjects, French and English, that he had given the archbishopric of Canterbury and all that belonged to it to Archbishop Anselm.
A bishopric was a very small temptation to him, and the commissioner improved his inflexibility to have his life taken away, to be a terror to others, that they might have the less opposition in establishing prelacy. Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies
He propounded views in favour of the divorce of Henry VIII from Catherine of Aragon, was appointed to the archbishopric in 1533, and maintained the king's claim to be the supreme head of the Church of England.
The contractor himself became a valued member of a Cheyenne bank and was on the bishopric of the church.
In the 1990s, a number of bishoprics in Germany, Luxembourg and France began to support his beatification by the Roman Catholic Church.
Chester was one of the seats of the Mercian bishops, though the bishopric was variously styled as Chester, Coventry, or Coventry and Lichfield.
Nevertheless, the distribution and control of offices, such as countships, abbacies, and bishoprics rather than the royal treasury became the main foci of the political rivalries and conflicts of the ninth and tenth centuries.

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