The bishopric still exists, with jurisdiction over the Cantons of the Grisons, Glarus, Zurich, and the three Forest Cantons, as well as the Austrian principality of Liechtenstein.
In the 9th century, however, when the bishopric of Conimbriga was removed hither, its old title was transferred to the new see, and hence arose the modern name Coimbra.
It was by his advice that Birinus went from Rome to Wessex, where he converted King Cynegils, and founded the bishopric of Dorchester-on-Thames.
But now all England was divided into bishoprics, which all paid obedience to the metropolitan see of Canterbury; and in each bishopric the countryside was furnished with clergy to work under the bishop.
The City of Westminster is also a bishopric under a high steward and high bailiff, chosen by the dean and chapter.
Hanover, with a bishopric founded by Charlemagne, which was held by a brother of George I.
He was also ousted from the rich living of Petworth, usually held in commendam with the (poor) bishopric of Chichester, by that particularly pestilent Puritan, Francis Cheynell.
The Sattin and the Velvet hive Unto a Bishopric doth drive.
Campeggio's son was knighted and regaled with costly presents, and all that bribes (the Bishopric of Durham, &c.
Henry offered him an English bishopric which his own sovereigns would not allow him to accept, and a wealthy wife in England was denied him for a similar reason; for Ferdinand on principle kept his agents poor.
With the bishopriche had received the spiritual sword, and the material sword with the dukedom.
Under its protection Willibrord at last founded the bishopric of Utrecht (734).
He was born in the bishopricof Freising in Bavaria not long after the year 1000, and spent his youth in the monastic schools of Tegernsee and Hersfeld.
During the latter part of the seventeenth century and the greater part of the eighteenth, the deanery of Westminster was, in this way, almost continuously attached to the bishopric of Rochester.
Bishopric of St. Andrews an extensive tract of land, completed the grant according to Andrew of Wyntoun (vii.
She was not the only gainer by the restoration of her reputation, for in consideration of the success which had attended her, she settled twenty-one manors on the Bishopric and Church of Winchester.
Eadred wished him to accept a bishopric, but he refused, for he would not leave the king's service, and he evidently considered that a bishopric should not be treated as a mere provision for an officer of state.
His prayers were heard; Eadwine was baptized, and made his capital, York, the seat of the bishopric of Paulinus.
In October 1345, while Edward was absent in France, David of Scotland led a large army into thebishopric of Durham, wasting the country as he advanced.
Even in his time the bishopric began to assume its special character as a march against the Scots.
A few months later he received the bishopric of London, which he held along with Worcester.
Spearhafoc, however, though he was not consecrated, kept the bishopric for some months.
At Worcester, Wulfstan, though not a man of learning, was allowed to retain his bishopric on account of his holiness.
Spearhafoc was now ousted, and the bishopric of London was given to one of the king's Norman clerks, named William.
Innocent even gave the arch-bishopric of Canterbury to one of his cardinals, Stephen Langton, against the wishes of a Norman king.
So and so holds such land for rent, because no one would hold it for works,' is a fairly frequent entry both before and after 1349," on the records of the Bishopric of Winchester.
Before 1350 exchanges, sales and subletting of land by tenants had become general on the manors of the Bishopric of Winchester.
A recent intensive study of the manors of the Bishopric of Winchester during this period confirms the view of those who have protested against assigning to the Black Death the revolutionary importance which is given it by many historians.
Finally, hisbishopric from William was merely the reward of trickery and treason simply infamous.
By a loyal decree the bishop of Troya was notified that he must raise the censures that he had laid upon the alcaldes-mayor, the collectors [of tribute], and the rest of the officers of justice throughout the bishopric of Cagayan.
Then the bishopric of Sens must necessarily soon fall in, for my uncle who holds it is in his eightieth year.
All these were necessary for the duties of vicar-general and governor of this bishopric at such times as these, which were so near to the first conquest of these islands.
Hence the bishop succeeded in having his bishopric divided among four prelates--an archbishop and three suffragan bishops--and he marked out the limits of each bishopric.
Besides this, the careful bishop was influenced by the need of his own sheep; for nearly everything to which we ministered fell within the bishopric of Nueva Segovia, which was under his direction.
The bishop answered, with great calmness, that he was delighted to have in his bishopricso honorable a person.
When he reached Espana it is said that his Majesty at first was vexed on account of his return, because his bishopric would need him during his absence.
He found his bishopric like sheep without a shepherd, and strove to gather them together and bring them to order; but, as they had learned to live without control, they took his efforts very ill.
Though he aided the Indians, he did not neglect the Spaniards, who lived in the principal towns of his bishopric less edifying and exemplary lives than those whose Christianity is ancient ought to lead in towns of the newly converted.
The possession of this ring reconciled the monks to the appointment of Ralph of Seez as successor of Gundulf to the bishopric of Rochester, as they regarded the donation in the light of a prophecy.
Mael Maedoc Ua Morgair sat in the bishopric of Connor.
In the whole bishopric of Armagh "there was none who could or would sing" (§ 7).
By him the church throughout the land of Oirgialla was reformed, and a regular bishopric was made, and the church was placed under the jurisdiction of the bishop.
With the gift of the pall Paparo bestowed upon him "the principal part of the bishopric of Glendalough as his diocese," promising him the remainder on the death of the bishop who then ruled it.
The bishopric of Ely was partially carved out of the bishopric of Lincoln, and comprizes Cambridge in its jurisdiction.
Yet, through the machinations of his opponents, the vacancy at Cologne was otherwise filled, and Boniface was at last obliged to be satisfied with the less important bishopric of Mainz.
Callistus was raised to the bishopric of Rome, but not without strong opposition on the part of the rigorists, at whose head stood the celebrated presbyter Hippolytus.
The exchange of one bishopric for another was forbidden by the Nicene Council as spiritual adultery (Eph.
At the time when Constantine’s conversion so completely changed the aspect of things =Melchiades= occupied the bishopric of Rome, A.
He returned now to Nazianzum [Nazianzen], administered for several years the bishopric there, and died in A.
Louis the Pious appointed him to the bishopric of Turin with the express injunction that he should contend against image worship in his Italian diocese.
Louis thus perceived an opportunity of founding a bishopric for the Scandinavian Norsemen at Hamburg on the borders of Denmark.
Wilibrord wished him to remain in Friesland as his coadjutor, and to be his future successor in the bishopric of Utrecht.
The fable of the Roman bishopric of Peter (§ 16, 1) was at an early period unhesitatingly adopted, all the more because no one expected the results which in later times were deduced from a quite different understanding of Matt.
The centre of his operations was the bishopric of Salzburg, founded by him.
On assuming the bishopric he gave the whole powers of his mind to the administration of his office in all directions.
He had refused to accept the bishopric of Nicaragua.
After arriving at the Philippines he was sent to the bishopric of Nueva Segovia, where he learned the language perfectly; and he wrote many sermons and discourses, which were preserved in manuscript and copied for the use of the order.
Martin Real de la Cruz died in the bishopricof Cagayan in 1651.
In the same bishopric died also during that period Lucas Garcia, at the age of seventy-six.
He was born of honest parentage in a village of little report near La Peña de Francia, in the bishopric of Salamanca; and professed in the convent of La Talabera in the ecclesiastical province of Spain.
This huge bishopric was then divided into the two sees of Winchester and Sherborne.
There was a close connection between Iona and Norway, and for a long time the bishopric of the Isles was united with that of the Isle of Man.
The Bishopric of Rochester since the Reformation has been occupied by several remarkable men.
Abbot Malvern, the last abbot, was offered the bishopric which Henry VIII.
In 1075 the Bishop of Lichfield removed the seat of the bishopricto Chester, and the Church of St. John the Baptist was his Cathedral.
His curious brass tells of his recovering for his see the Castle of Sherborne and the Chase of Bere, of which the bishopric had been wrongfully despoiled.
I do hope to hear that the new Bishopric may soon be founded, on which Mr. Robertson and you and others have so set your hearts.
But really a competent man might work these islands into a Bishopric before long.
The question of the Bishopric began to come forward.
It perhaps marks the position of Cortona as a comparatively modern bishopric that its cathedral church is in no sort the crowning building of the city.
As a Roman city and colony it was of so little account that, even in Italy, where bishops are so thick upon the ground, it did not become a bishopric till the fourteenth century.
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