* " Was Wesley Ordained By Bishop Erasmus?

Also, William Hammet ( a missionary ordained by Wesley who traveled to America from Antigua with Bishop Coke ), led a successful revolt against the MEC in 1791.

On October 29, 44 leading clergymen, including Dean Francis B. Sayre, Jr. of Washington National Cathedral, United Presbyterian Church Leader Eugene Carson Blake, Methodist Bishop John Wesley Lord, American Hebrew Congregations President Maurice Eisendrauth, and theologians Paul Tillich and Reinhold Niebuhr, issued a letter commenting on the Jenkins affair: "" We see the Jenkins episode as a case of human weakness.

Some of these include Bishop Wesley John Gaines, Reverend Frank Quarles ( an early benefactor of Morehouse College ), Carrie Steele Logan, and Antoine Graves, the owner of the only mausoleum in the black section.

It was directed by Tom McLoughlin and written by Wesley Bishop and Richard Kletter.

* Bishop James Chamberlain Baker, Gamma Chapter, Educator, Pastor, and the organizer and head of the first Wesley Foundation in the United States, at the University of Illinois.

Bishop James C. Baker's work in organizing this first Wesley Foundation chose the name Wesley Foundation to emphasize two spheres of outreach.

* John Wesley Hardt, a retired American Bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 1980 ;

* Distinguished alumni / ae identified by the seminary include John Kurewa, Lyle Schaller, Bishop Rueben Philip Job, Bishop Donald Ott, Bishop Sharon Rader, Myron McCoy ( President of St. Paul School of Theology, Dr. John Wesley Kurawa, Bishop Beverly J. Shamana, Bishop Charlene P. Kammerer, Bishop Jesse DeWitt, Howard Clinebell, the Rev.

Wesley was reluctant to take this action, but he had already asked for the Bishop of London to ordain a bishop for America, and he had been rebuffed.

Newest on the list are John Ciardi, W. D. Snodgrass, I. A. Richards, Oscar Williams, Robert Hillyer, John Hall Wheelock, Stephen Vincent Benet, Edwin Muir, John Peal Bishop and Maxwell Bodenheim.

* 1329 – The Roman Catholic Diocese of Quilon, the first Indian Christian Diocese, is erected by Pope John XXII ; the French-born Jordanus is appointed the first Bishop.

Grimbald and John the Saxon came from Francia ; Plegmund ( whom Alfred appointed archbishop of Canterbury in 890 ), Bishop Werferth of Worcester, Æthelstan, and the royal chaplains Werwulf, from Mercia ; and Asser, from St. David's in south-western Wales.

In the summer of 1234, the Bishop John of Bosnia excommunicated Andrew because he had not respected some provisions of the Agreement of Bereg.

* Jürgen Klötgen, Prieuré d ' Abergavenny – Tribulations mancelles en Pays de Galles au temps du Pape Jean XXII ( d ' après des documents français et anglais du XIV ° siècle collationnés avec une source d ' histoire retrouvée aux Archives Secrètes du Vatican ), in Revue Historique et Archéologique du Maine, Le Mans, 1989, p. 65 – 88 ( 1319: cf John of Hastings, Lord of Abergavenny ; Adam de Orleton, Bishop of Hereford, John of Monmouth, Bishop of Llandaff ).

In Bede's thirtieth year ( about 702 ) Bede became a priest, with the ordination again performed by Bishop John.

This remarkable text, originally written in Latin, is extant only in the 1549 translation of Bishop John Ponet.

1549 translation of Bishop John Ponet.

The first Manx translation of the Book of Common Prayer was made by Bishop John Phillips of Sodor and Man in 1610.

Edward Bishop Elliott, in the Horae Apocalypticae ( 1862 ), argues that John wrote the book in exile on Patmos " at the close of the reign of Domitian ; that is near the end of the year 95 or beginning of 96 ".

The canonization of Saint Udalric, Bishop of Augsburg, by Pope John XV in 999 is the first undoubted example of a papal canonization of a saint from outside Rome ( Some historians maintain that the first such canonization was that of Saint Swibert by Pope Leo III in 804 ).

The pope, as Bishop of Rome, may open a process and has the authority to waive the five year waiting period, as was done for Mother Teresa by Pope John Paul II, and for Lúcia Santos and for John Paul II himself by Pope Benedict XVI.

Its sponsors included John Arlott, Peggy Ashcroft, the Bishop of Birmingham Dr J. L. Wilson, Benjamin Britten, Viscount Chaplin, Michael de la Bédoyère, Bob Edwards, MP, Dame Edith Evans, A. S. Frere, Gerald Gardiner, QC, Victor Gollancz, Dr I. Grunfeld, E. M. Forster, Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron, Rev.

Trevor Huddleston, Sir Julian Huxley, Edward Hyams, the Bishop of Llandaff Dr Glyn Simon, Doris Lessing, Sir Compton Mackenzie, the Very Rev George McLeod, Miles Malleson, Denis Matthews, Sir Francis Meynell, Henry Moore, John Napper, Ben Nicholson, Sir Herbert Read, Flora Robson, Michael Tippett, the cartoonist ' Vicky ', Professor C. H. Waddington and Barbara Wootton.

* In 2005 Powell received the Bishop John T. Walker Distinguished Humanitarian Service Award for his contributions to Africa.

Bishop John Shelby Spong, retired Episcopal Bishop of Newark, has written that dogmas and creeds were merely " a stage in our development " and " part of our religious childhood.

In the 20th century, theologians like Jürgen Moltmann, Hans Küng, John Robinson, Bishop David Jenkins, Don Cupitt and Bishop Jack Spong challenged traditional theological positions and understandings of the Bible ; following these developments some have suggested that passages have been mistranslated or that they do not refer to what we understand as " homosexuality.

* Bishop Edward Gaines, Tokoroa

* 1132 – St. Hugues, Bishop of Grenoble ( b. 1053 )

* 1031 – Olaf II of Norway is canonized as Saint Olaf by Grimketel, the English Bishop of Selsey.

# Siegfried ( died 24 October 1184 ), Bishop of Brandenburg from 1173 – 1180, Prince-Archbishop of Bremen, the first ranked prince, from 1180 – 1184

Absalon or Axel ( – 21 March 1201 ) was a Danish archbishop and statesman, who was the Bishop of Roskilde from 1158 to 1192 and Archbishop of Lund from 1178 until his death.

Saint Adalbert, Czech: ;, ( c. 956 – April 23, 997 ), Czech Roman Catholic saint, a Bishop of Prague and a missionary, was martyred in his efforts to convert the Baltic Prussians.

Ælfheah (, " elf-high "; 954 – 19 April 1012 ), officially remembered by the name Alphege within some churches, and also called Elphege, Alfege, or Godwine, was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Winchester, later Archbishop of Canterbury.

Probably due to the influence of Dunstan, the Archbishop of Canterbury ( 959 – 988 ), Ælfheah was elected Bishop of Winchester in 984, and was consecrated on 19 October that year.

* 1079 – Bishop Stanislaus of Kraków is executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland.

* 1854 – William Stang, German prelate and Bishop ( d. 1907 )

It was from St. Alexander of Alexandria, Bishop of Alexandria, 312 – 328, himself an Origenist, that St Athanasius received his main instruction.

Berlin's best preserved medieval Church of St. Mary's is the 1 < sup > st </ sup > preaching venue – Memorial Church being the 2 < sup > nd </ sup > – of the Bishop of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia ( EKBO ), a Protestant regional church body.

The spelling and names in both the 1609 – 1610 Douay Old Testament ( and in the 1582 Rheims New Testament ) and the 1749 revision by Bishop Challoner ( the edition currently in print used by many Catholics, and the source of traditional Catholic spellings in English ) and in the Septuagint ( an ancient translation of the Old Testament in to Greek, which is widely used by the Eastern Orthodox instead of the Masoretic text ) differ from those spellings and names used in modern editions which are derived from the Hebrew Masoretic text.

Bishop Wigers ( 1138 – 60 ) was the first of a series of bishops of the Premonstratensian Order, which chose the occupants of the see until 1447 ; in that year a bull of Nicholas V gave the right of nomination to the elector of Brandenburg, with whom the bishops stood in a close feudal relation.

* 1415 – 1420: Johann von Waldow, Bishop of Lebus

* 1507 – 1520: Hieronymus Schulz ( or Scultetus ), later Bishop of Havelberg

In the 18th century there were increasing numbers of such collections, including Thomas D ' Urfey's Wit and Mirth: or, Pills to Purge Melancholy ( 1719 – 20 ) and Bishop Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry ( 1765 ).

Since the donation of the Abbey Moutier-Grandvalto and all its possessions to Bishop Adalbero II in 999 till the Reformation, Basel was ruled by prince-bishops ( see Bishop of Basel, whose memory is preserved in the crosier shown on the Basel coat-of-arms – see above ).