* 1953 – Pope Pius XII establishes the Dioceses of Norwich and Bridgeport and makes the Diocese of Hartford an archdiocese.

* 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.

* 1808 – The Roman Catholic Diocese of Baltimore is promoted to an archdiocese, with the founding of the dioceses of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Bardstown ( now Louisville ) by Pope Pius VII.

* 1842 21 August – The Church of England Diocese of Gibraltar was founded by Letters Patent and took over the pastoral care of the chaplaincies and congregations from Portugal to the Caspian Sea.

* 1998 – Roman Catholic sex abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $ 23. 4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Skopje had religious leaders from diverse backgrounds, including Bosnian, Italian, Bulgarian, Macedonian and Greek friars such as Giacinto Macripodari ( c. 1610 – 1672 ) who administrated from Skopje in the 17th century.

* September 27 – The Roman Catholic Diocese of Požega in Croatia is founded.

* July 14, 1827 – Kingdom of Hawaii: The Diocese of Honolulu is founded.

* March 7 – The Diocese of Madrid-Alcalá is founded.

* July 14 – Kingdom of Hawaii: The Diocese of Honolulu is founded.

* April 25 – The pioneer parishes of New Orleans and Louisiana are erected as well as incorporated into the Diocese of Louisiana and the Two Floridas

* c. 545 – 546 ( approximate date ) – The Diocese of Bangor is established in the Welsh Kingdom of Gwynedd with Deiniol consecrated as first Bishop

Cnut's possession of England's dioceses and the continental Diocese of Denmark – with a claim laid upon it by the Holy Roman Empire's Archdiocese of Hamburg-Bremen – was a source of great leverage within the Church, gaining notable concessions from Pope Benedict VIII, and his successor John XIX, such as one on the price of the pallium of his bishops.

* Samuel Smith Harris, ( 1841 – 1888 ), born in Autauga County, Presbyterian clergyman, founder and editor of Living Word magazine, and bishop of the Diocese of Michigan.

* John Connolly ( 1750 – 1825 ), second Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York

Saint John the Baptist School is located in Tipton and is part of the Diocese of Lafayette Catholic Schools ; it is an elementary school and served 82 students during the 2009 – 2010 school year.

However, this left a large area as a Diocese to govern, and St David's began to deteriorate as the centre of the diocese, being nowhere near the centre – the Bishop ’ s residence had been at Carmarthen since the 16th century, but administration and the focus moved from the Cathedral to the Diocese ’ s now largest town.

* William Henry Bullock ( 1927 – 2011 ), catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Madison.

* Carlton Chase ( 1794 – 1870 ), bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire

The private Catholic schools serving Cape May are Cape Trinity Regional School ( PreK – 8 ) and Wildwood Catholic High School are located in Wildwood and serve all students from Cape May County under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden.

* James Augustine McFaul ( 1850 – 1917 ), Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Trenton from 1894-1917.

* Diocese of Europe – Overseen by Bishop Mar Odisho Oraham.

* Diocese of Syria – Overseen by Bishop Mar Aprem Natniel.

* Diocese of Nohadra and Russia – Overseen by Bishop Mar Iskhaq Yosip.

* Diocese of Canada – Overseen by Bishop Mar Emmanuel Yosip.

* Diocese of the Eastern United States – Overseen by Bishop Mar Poulous Benyamin.

* Diocese of Iran – Overseen by Mar Narsai Benjamin.

* Diocese of the Western United States – Overseen by Bishop Mar Aprim Khamis.

It was established in 1878, two years after the Diocese of Truro was created, by splitting the Archdeaconry of Cornwall.

Eight of its 14 governors are nominated by the Diocese of Truro or the Parochial Church Council of St. Petroc's, Bodmin.

During the post-Roman centuries of Germanic migration and settlement, the region afterwards included in the Diocese of Bamberg was inhabited for the most part by Slavs.

The area was Christianized chiefly by the monks of the Benedictine Fulda Abbey, and the land was under the spiritual authority of the Diocese of Würzburg.

Aside from the American version and the newly-published Philippine Book of Common Prayer, the Filipino-Chinese of Saint Stephen's Pro-Cathedral in the Diocese of the Central Philippines uses the English-Chinese Diglot Book of Common Prayer, published by the Episcopal Church of Southeast Asia.

The process was accompanied by numerous objections, notably from the deeply conservatively evangelical Diocese of Sydney which noted the loss of BCP wording and of an explicit ' biblical doctrine of substitutionary atonement '.

Originally, however, this referred to certain key priests of important churches of the Diocese of Rome, who were recognized as the cardinal priests, the important priests chosen by the pope to advise him in his duties as Bishop of Rome ( the Latin cardo means " hinge ").

At least Christian was able to establish the Diocese of Chełmno east of the Vistula, adopting the episcopal rights from the Masovian Bishop of Płock, confirmed by both Duke Konrad and the Pope.

Some Christians thought that Hypatia's influence had caused Orestes, the Praefectus augustalis of the Byzantine Diocese of Egypt | Diocese of Egypt, to reject all reconciliatory offerings by Cyril.

The government of a bishop is typically symbolized by a cathedral church, such as the Catholic Roman Catholic Diocese of Chartres | bishops's Chartres Cathedral | seat at Chartres.

She has been designated a lay Canon for the Arts in the Episcopal Diocese of Quincy ( Illinois ) by the Rt.

When the property of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kammin was secularized during the Protestant Reformation in 1534, their secular reign including the Kolberg area became intermediately ruled by a Lutheran titular bishop, before it was turned into a Sekundogenitur of the House of Pomerania.

Following his death in 1626 in Southwark, he was mourned alike by leaders in Church and state, and buried by the high altar in St Mary Overie ( now Southwark Cathedral, then in the Diocese of Winchester ).

Duchesne refers to the 12th century work by Petrus Guillermi in 1142 at the monastery of St. Gilles ( Diocese of Reims ) as the Liber Pontificalis of Petrus Guillermi ( son of William ).

Under Diocletian, Lusitania kept its borders and was ruled by a praeses, later by a consularis ; finally, in 298 AD, it was united with the other provinces to form the Diocesis Hispaniarum (" Diocese of the Hispanias ").

The 15th-century trees of Olivo della Linza located in Alliste province of Lecce in Puglia were noted by Bishop Ludovico de Pennis during his pastoral visit to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nardò-Gallipoli in 1452.

In September 1462, he confirmed the Diocese of Laibach, established in December 1462 by Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor.