Picture: Decorative image] List of the Bishops and Deans of Norwich, during the last century.
By this decision, the governor-general had the power to deprive the friars of their curacies at will, since the bishops have almost always desired or solicited that.
The origin of this partiality must be found in the old-time fight between the bishopsand the regular curas--who defend their rights with tenacity; while the natives are submissive and most humble to the prelates and flatter them.
The amount of its building and maintenance was to be taken from the funds resulting from vacant sees of bishops of these islands and from the tithes, while the part lacking was to be taken from the royal treasury.
The missionaries are forbidden to engage in commerce or other business; the field shall be suitably divided among the various orders; and any bishops who may be appointed in Japan shall be suffragan to the see of Manila.
Some years later, bishoprics were erected; and from that moment began a struggle between the bishops and the monastic orders as to whether or no the friar curas should be subject to the diocesan visit.
Article Twelve Of the bishops of the Philippines suffragan to Manila; and of the general number of Christian souls in those islands.
Perhaps this subjection of the curas to the bishops and vice-patrons will have resulted in great advantages; but there is no doubt that the relaxation of morals which the regular superiors foresaw has been verified.
The names of the bishops until 1849 follow, and the article ends with information identical with that concluding the article on the bishopric of Nueva Cáceres.
However, I say again, the Bishops ought not to omit securing him.
He has made a pretty mess for himself, but if the Bishops are wise, they may profit by it.
I think it very doubtful whether the Bishops will now [admit] him into their alliance.
Far the pleasantest day we have had; I suppose I am partial, but I think the lawyers beat the bishops, and the bishops beat the wits.
But though we may believe in their resisting power to this great temptation, we must remember that the failure to settle the Home Rule question would give to the bishops and priests a great power in Ireland.
As long as Ireland possesses no strong secular central power she must always lean on the authority of her bishops and archbishops.
It is now known, indeed, to be the fact that the British Government actually induced the Vatican to bring pressure upon the Irish leaders and the Irish bishops in order to achieve their object.
Recent researches have shown that that offer led to the conversion of Bishopsand their clergy throughout the whole of Ireland, besides winning over the great body of Catholic Peers.
And he showed this to the other bishops and admonished them for to be all in prayers; and he kept the doors.
Once more let us turn to the Golden Legend, which relates the story as follows: After this the bishop of Mirea died and other bishops assembled for to purvey to this church a bishop.
Lord Dover's mistake is, I think, to be attributed to his assumption that bishopsare peers of the realm.
Nor were they inappropriate pulpits for the apostolic bishops and priests, who thus, in making their shades vocal with the gospel words, proclaimed by their voice and presence the victory of Christ over darkness and idolatry.
The pope preserved the right to nominate to vacant benefices in curia and to certain benefices of the chapters, but all the others were in the nomination of the bishops or other inferior collators.
The election, then, is reserved to the members of the higher clergy, to the cardinals, among whom the cardinal bishopshave the preponderating position.
Roman civic institutions perished; but probably parts of the population survived, and small Christian congregations with their bishops in most cases seem to have weathered all storms.
At Rome the method of election was the same as in other towns: the Roman clergy and people and the neighbouring bishops each took part in it in their several capacities.
In the 10th century it became the policy of the German emperors to hand over to the bishops full jurisdictional and administrative powers within their cities.
Furthermore, the bishops being in most cases the exponents of the imperial power, the struggle for freedom from the latter ended in a radical riddance from all temporal episcopal government as well.
The bishops at first resented these attempts at self-management, as they had done in the case of the town council, and imperial legislation in their interests was obtained.
Legally the bishops were in their cities mere representatives of the imperial government.
When, on the other hand, certain bishops attempted to treat all new-comers to their city as serfs, the emperor Henry V.
In countries where the head of the state is not a Catholic, the bishops are regularly elected by the chapters, but the civil power has the right to strike out objectionable names from the list of candidates which is previously submitted to it.
The pope condoned those who had acquired church property; and by way of compensation the government engaged to give the bishops and cures suitable salaries.
St. Énogat bears the name of one of the first bishops of Aleth, and its proximity to the great cliffs fringing the coast, and the high rocks just offshore, make its location even more beautiful than that of Dinard itself.
The bishops are nominated by the chief of the state, but are invested canonically by the Pope.
As for the box--well, why don't the Bishopsopen it?
The next three bishops all died before consecration, and for about sixteen years after the death of Malcolm the bishopric would appear to have been vacant.
Skene, the remains of that anomalous church of seven bishops which here, as elsewhere, preceded the monastic church, while Columba appears to have refused to recognise them as such, and the island was abandoned to him.
A catalogue of the Bishops of Orkney, by Professor Munch of Christiania, will be found in the Bannatyne Miscellany.
Canon Myln's quaint Lives of the Bishops of Dunkeld professes to give an account of the building of the cathedral, and it appears that the existing structure is chiefly of the fifteenth century.
The deans of the chapel, who were first the provosts of Kirkheugh at St. Andrews, afterwards the bishops of Galloway, and eventually the bishops of Dunblane, possessed in their capacity as deans an episcopal jurisdiction.
The latter was best known as the consistory house, and was the place where the bishops held their ecclesiastical courts and the diocesan records were kept.
At last the Queen entered, walking between the Bishops of Bath and Wells and Durham, with Gentlemen-at-Arms on each side.
The first peeress took her seat in the north transept opposite, at a quarter before seven, and three of the bishops came next.
The Bishops who bore the patina, Bible, and chalice in the procession, placed the same on the altar.
The great officers of State, except the Lord Chamberlain, retired to their respective places, and the Bishops of Worcester and St. David's read the Litany.
The Archbishops of Canterbury and York, and the Bishops of London and Norwich, officiated.
The Queen then left the throne, and attended by two Bishops and noblemen bearing the regalia and swords of State, passed into King Edward's chapel, the organ playing.
Then followed the Communion service, read by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishops of Rochester and Carlisle.
The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishops who were to read the Litany put on their copes.
In the third place, the metropolitan or bishop is forbidden to exact from the new bishops or curés "any oath other than that they profess the Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman religion.
At the moment the King entered his capital with two bishops of his council with him in the carriage, the cry was heard, 'Off to the lamp post with the bishops!
According to him the two firebrands are, on the one hand, the bishopsof Lower Languedoc, and on the other, MM.
No more bishops or lords, no more distinctions of rank, no tithes, and no seignorial privileges.
It is in this way that the appointment of judges and bishops is withdrawn from the King and assigned to the people.
I have renounced allbishops save Bishop Beveridge!
See his eloquent address to the bishops and barons in behalf of the young king.
The following account of these disasters was forwarded to Europe by the Vice-Master of the Temple, and the bishops and abbots of Palestine.
On the 20th of May, in obedience to the mandate of the archbishop of York, an ecclesiastical council of the bishops and clergy assembled in the cathedral.
Stapleton, bishop of Exeter, in the days of king Edward the Second, for a residing mansion-house for him and his successors, bishops of that see.
It was claimed in after times by the bishops of Llandaff, as well as by those of St. David's," etc.
Howbeit in Oxford the heads of houses are now and then called presidents in respect of such bishops as are their visitors and founders.
Archbishop Parker and some bishops upon the matter, ib.
By east of this standeth Durham Place, sometime belonging to the bishops of Durham, but converted also by King Henry the Eighth into a palace royal and lodging for the prince.
Nevertheless, clergy ordained by the superintendents or Bishops of the other Scandinavian Churches (who have no succession from the mediaeval Church) are admitted to Swedish altars.
When in 1593 the Swedish Church in council at Upsala accepted the Augsburg confession of faith, the succession of Bishops and the ancient order were zealously guarded.
The bathing of the bishopswas in Iceland by no means exceptional.
But the Friday evening both bishops went to bathe at Bathridge after supper.
Two Icelandic bishops were placed among the Saints.
The dissentient bishopsdrew many priests into their party.
Accordingly several constitutional bishopsand priests were dragged to the scaffold.
SPINA, some bishops made their complaints to the government in a spirited and well-composed memorial, denouncing the Pope's brief as an attack on the liberties of the Gallican church and the rights of the Republic.
They then compiled two works, entitled Lettres Encycliques, to which the bishopsand priests of the various dioceses adhered.
The constitutional bishops had already anticipated this moment by their writings and their pastoral letters, &c.
They will see that, during twelve hundred years, bishops received the canonical institution from the metropolitans, and not from the Pope.
In this assembly several bishops spoke with much force on the subject.
Those bishopspersisted in their decision, and, by way of answer, they reprinted a translation of the celebrated treatise of St. Cyprian de Lapsis.
The same courage animated the majority of the constitutional bishops and priests.
Notwithstanding the wise intentions of the government, sincerely desirous of peace and concord, it is only in the dioceses fallen to the constitutional bishops that a good understanding prevails.
The victory of Marengo enabled Bonaparte to proceed with his plans for an accommodation with the Vatican; and he informed one of the Lombard bishops that he desired to open friendly relations with Pope Pius VII.
Tithes are abolished: the lands of the Church are confiscated to the service of the State; monastic orders are suppressed; and the Government undertakes to pay the stipends of bishops and priests.
The past is past: and the bishops and prefects ought to require from the priests only the declaration of adhesion to the Concordat, and of obedience to the bishop nominated by the First Consul and instituted by the Pope.
The idea of compelling long-persecuted bishops to resign their sees was no less distasteful than the latter proposal, which involved acquiescence in sacrilegious robbery.
The archbishops and bishops were all to take an oath of fidelity to the constitution.
Sweeping as this proposal seemed, Bonaparte claimed that bishops of both sides must resign, in order that a satisfactory selection might be made.
On all sides he left the imprint of his practical mind, that viewed life as a game at chess, whence bishops and knights were carefully banished, and wherein nothing was left but the heavy pieces and subservient pawns.
It compelled bishops and priests to seek election by the adult males of their several Departments and parishes, and forced them to take a stringent oath of obedience to the new order of things.
A budget of public worship was, it is true, designed to support the bishops and priests; but this solemn obligation was soon renounced by the fiercer revolutionists.
The bishops nominated the lower clerics provided that they were acceptable to the Government: all alike bound themselves to watch over governmental interests.
Why the Bishops Disliked the Bible= A Bishop of Dunkeld, in Scotland, before the Reformation, thanked God that he never knew what the Old and New Testaments were, affirming that he cared to know no more than his Portius and Pontifical.
There was a regular succession of bishopsfrom 1124 to the end of the fourteenth, or perhaps the beginning of the fifteenth century.
Addressed to the two bishops of Skalholt and Holar, in Iceland.
In the strength of these feelings he immediately drew up a memorial to the worthy College of Missions, and again entreated the help of the bishops of Bergen and Drontheim.
But bishops then, as now, were not to be unduly hurried.
Both bishops replied favourably; but when his friends saw that he was in earnest, they set up vehement opposition to what they styled his preposterous enterprise.
The Bishops had retired when we reached the old house, but Wallace came to the door, book in hand.
He gave me a quiet nudge with his elbow, and then went on to say that the twelve of us would dine with the Bishops at six o'clock, and stay to the dance which would start as soon as it was dark.
And for the same cause, Bishopsshould give to priests their orders.
Other answer gave he not that day: but the Bishops were not quieted herewith.
These Bishops and these Archbishops, Ye shall them beat and bind!
For Bishops should accept no man to priesthood, except that he had good will and full purpose, and were well disposed and well learned to preach.
And whatsoever the Bishops asked him, he bade them look what his Bill said thereto; and thereby he would stand to the death.
Until now, for two hundred years Babylonian bishops have gone there; and now there are many Portuguese.
All these points are commented upon by certain bishops whose advice is apparently requested by the Council of the Indias.
The bishops declare this to be inconvenient, and that the half-real which is given for the prebendaries should also be placed in the treasury on a separate account.
The bishops say that it is advisable that they should not go [to the islands] unless for the purpose of becoming actual citizens, for there the difficulties referred to in this point exist.
Elizabeth 'routed the bishops and the Irish Church.
Johnson, of fat bishops and drowsy deans; and, in short, seemed to believe the illiberal and profane scoffings of professed satyrists, or vulgar railers.
He was one of the seven Bishopswho were sent to the Tower in 1688.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bishops" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
