bishopric

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “The appointment to the bishopric was the beginning of a new system.”

  William the Conqueror

• “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 the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century

• “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 the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century

• “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

• “Whether the bishopric was the wages of the book, or the book revenge for the imprisonment, we shall not say; but surely King must have had marvellous virtue to write impartially, in excited and reckless times, for so demoralized a party as the English Whigs, when he wrote of transactions yet incomplete, of which there was a perilous stake not only for him but for his friends, and when, of the parties at issue, one gave him a gaol and the other a mitre.”

  Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry

• “I clicked on "bishopric," which unfortunately did not lead to an article on bishops but an article on the Roman Catholic Diocese of Regensburg.”

  Where's Jesus? (A Holiday Game)

• “Usually the bishopric which is the bishop and his two counselors have I guess picked, assigned people to give talks on a certain topic or sometimes the bishop speaks or one of his counselors.”

  Oral History Interview with Adetola Hassan, December 16, 2001. Interview R-0160. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

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