Prince-Bishop

The Prince-Bishop had a passion for witch-hunting, and during the ten years of his reign he executed more than 600 witches, men, women, and children, most of them burned alive at the stake after confessing under torture to various pacts with the Devil.

Dan Agin: A Demon in the Head I: Madness and Murderous Violence 2009

The most notorious witch-hunter of all time was probably Prince-Bishop Johann Georg II of Bamburg.

Dan Agin: Sarah Palin and Her Belief in Witches 2008

As early as 1780, a Treaty of Alliance between the King of France and the Prince-Bishop of Basel stated that nothing “is more proper for maintaining good relations and peace between two bordering states” than punishing offenses related to forests, hunting, and fishing.

Transboundary protected areas 2008

Whereupon Voltaire, inured to Fortune's hard knocks and dirty tricks and quite uncowed, spent five luxurious weeks as the guest of two other highly placed friends, the Prince-Bishop of Mainz and the Elector Palatine.

Cultivating Voltaire's Garden Furbank, P.N. 2005

Magical plots are afoot, plots that threaten to weaken the struggling state, run by the Prince-Bishop as the aging king lies slowly fading away.

Distributed Proofreading: getting the out of copyright online fast sbisson 2002

Prince-Bishop Danilo, the ruler of the predominantly Christian principality, revolted in 1857 and declared his independence from the Ottomans.

1853 2001

And he had begun with the highest, the Holy Father's representative in England, the Prince-Bishop of Winchester, Henry of Blois, just shaking together his violated dignity and emerging with formidable resolution into the field of discussion, as if he had never changed and rechanged his coat, nor been shut up fast in his own castle in his own city, in peril of his life.

An Excellent Mystery Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1985

And he had begun with the highest, the Holy Father's representative in England, the Prince-Bishop of Winchester, Henry of Blois, just shaking together his violated dignity and emerging with formidable resolution into the field of discussion, as if he had never changed and rechanged his coat, nor been shut up fast in his own castle in his own city, in peril of his life.

An Excellent Mystery Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1985

Your predecessor, Anthony Aloysy Wolf, Prince-Bishop of Laibach, was one of those Prince Wolves, who have received my first two volumes, but were not prepared to study them, and to proclaim to Emperor Ferdinand and to the nations, the great things which the Lord has done.

Secret Enemies of True Republicanism Andrew B. Smolnikar

One will tell about the Duke of Ratibor, another about the Prince-Bishop Kopp, and a third perhaps about

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 Various