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! ❋ Unknown (1871)

The see was afterwards known as the bishopric of Lismore, and contained the following deaneries: Kintyre, with twelve parishes; Glassary or ❋ Herbert Story (N/A)

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. ❋ Various (N/A)

The appointment to the bishopric was the beginning of a new system. ❋ Freeman, E A (1913)

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. ❋ Emma Helen Blair (1884)

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. ❋ Emma Helen Blair (1884)

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. ❋ John Howie (1764)

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 Osborne Davis (1829)

I clicked on "bishopric," which unfortunately did not lead to an article on bishops but an article on the Roman Catholic Diocese of Regensburg. ❋ Walter Jon Williams (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2001)

That bishopric which is called Cagayàn includes under its jurisdiction the provinces of Pangasinàn, from the point of Bolinào; ❋ Emma Helen Blair (1884)

The flock is Christ's. which is among you -- While having a concern for all the Church, your special duty is to feed that portion of it "which is among you." oversight -- Greek, "bishopric," or duty of bishops, that is, overseer. not by constraint -- Necessity is laid upon them, but willingness prevents it being felt, both in undertaking and in fulfilling the duty ❋ Unknown (1871)

The bishopric was a suffragan of Rhodes in the seventh and tenth centuries (Gelzer, "Ungedruckte ... ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

[The name Nueva Segovia is preserved only in official documents, and it is more frequently called the bishopric of Ilocos, from the name of the province where the bishop lives. ❋ Emma Helen Blair (1884)

He had passed swiftly through Cambridge and Oxford to become a leading Anglican theologian and had risen equally swiftly from a small bishopric in Wales to the seat of Canterbury. ❋ Unknown (2009)