Bishoprics

There was no Church there but the Mormon Church, and it had only Bishops, and the Bishoprics were all full.

'Who Is Mark Twain?' 2009

Perhaps it is truly in fact only Father Roy's vocal-ness on women's rights in the church, -- rather than his speaking for the disenfranchised --, which has put him on a crash course with the Vatican and/or Bishoprics of the Northern Hemisphere.

Vatican Appears to be Attacking Opposition to SOA 2008

I did not realize priests are ambitious for Bishoprics and the like.

Ambition Terry Nelson 2006

I did not realize priests are ambitious for Bishoprics and the like.

Archive 2006-11-12 Terry Nelson 2006

Bishoprics that were much more lately constituted than the Sees of

Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 Elise Whitlock Rose

Many of the towns of mediæval creation possessed broad municipal and commercial privileges, they grew to the importance of "communes" and Bishoprics, and some even styled themselves "Republics."

Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 Elise Whitlock Rose

The Stoïlof Ministry has concluded an alliance with Servia and also an understanding which the Bulgarians sold to Turkey for eight Bishoprics in Macedonia.

The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 Various

Christ Himself, who are believed to have come into Gaul; and in their efforts to systematically and surely establish Christianity, to have founded the first French Bishoprics.

Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 Elise Whitlock Rose

Mediterranean were seats of Bishoprics, we cannot now see all the successive steps of the church architecture of the South.

Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 Elise Whitlock Rose

Christianity made a comparatively early conquest of the province; and at the beginning of the IV century, eleven suffragan Bishoprics had been established under the Archbishopric of Eauze.

Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 Elise Whitlock Rose