Bishoprics

Edward usually preferred clerks to monks for the most important and richest bishoprics, and he probably accepted gifts from candidates for bishoprics and abbacies.

After the death of Cyril, adherents of the Antiochian theology were appointed to bishoprics.

A map of Switzerland during the Roman period The first Christian bishoprics were founded in the fourth century.

Around 1245 the Papal legate William of Modena reached a compromise: though incorporated into the Order's State, the archdiocese and its suffragan bishoprics were acknowledged with their autonomous ecclesiastical territories by the Teutonic Knights.

Before this, cities had only existed in the form of old Roman foundations or older bishoprics.

Brooks Early History of the Church of Canterbury pp. 11–14 Additional work Æthelberht of Kent imagined in a statue from Canterbury Cathedral In 604, Augustine founded two more bishoprics in Britain.

Brown, James I, pp. 116–7 He also sought to influence Church attitudes to his policies by having his own clerics appointed to the bishoprics of Dunblane, Dunkeld, Glasgow and Moray.

Enumerated in the Edict of Restitution (1629), these possessions included two archbishoprics, 16 bishoprics, and hundreds of monasteries.

Even when the true prince-(arch)bishoprics disappeared from the map of Europe as it was redrawn by Napoleon I Bonaparte (who caused the end of the Holy Roman Empire) and the Congress of Vienna after his defeat, the title found a new, titular use.

Foot, Æthelstan: The First King of England, pp. 95–96 Æthelstan appointed members of his own circle to bishoprics in Wessex, possibly to counter the influence of the Bishop of Winchester, Frithestan.

Grey's bill had reduced the number of bishoprics by half, abolished some of the sinecures and overhauled the tithe system.

Handbook of British Chronology p. 84 As chancellor, Becket enforced the king's traditional sources of revenue that were exacted from all landowners, including churches and bishoprics.

Havana is one of the three Metropolitan sees on the island (the others being Camaguëy and Santiago), with two suffragan bishoprics: Mananzas and Pinar del Río.

In 1060, Ealdred was elected to the archbishopric of York, but had difficulty in obtaining papal approval for his appointment, only managing to do so when he promised not to hold the bishoprics of York and Worcester simultaneously.

In 1841 a "Colonial Bishoprics Council" was set up and soon many more dioceses were created.

In some smaller matters, Frederick was quite successful: in 1469 he managed to establish bishoprics in Vienna and Wiener Neustadt main, a step that no previous Duke of Austria had been able to achieve.

Kings would bestow bishoprics to members of noble families whose friendship he wished to secure.

The Archdiocese of Avignon had canonic jurisdiction over the department of Vaucluse and was an archdiocese under the bishoprics of Comtadins Carpentras, Cavaillon, and Vaison-la-Romaine.

The expenditures involved, as far as they exceeded one's own potential, were usually advanced by creditors and had then to be recovered by levying dues from the subjects and parishioners in the prince-bishoprics and dioceses that were just acquired.

The king retained substantially what he already possessed—the power to fill bishoprics with men of his choice.