The flies and the bishop on the bottom left is in reference to a Catalan folk legend ( from Girona ) about St. Narciso's crypt.

Despite pressure from the bishop of Girona, the Council of Aragon only dared to imprison a dissident deacon, Pau Capfort.

He was also bishop of Girona.

The latter continued to act as banker for the king, since a record is found of acknowledgment of a debt of 15, 000 sous, paid by Benveniste to the bishop of Barcelona when proceeding on an embassy to France on 1 January 1254 ; and as late as 1 February 1268, the dues of the Jews of Girona were assigned to Benveniste.

Adhemar ( also known as Adémar, Aimar, or Aelarz ) de Monteil ( died 1 August 1098 ), one of the principal figures of the First Crusade, was bishop of Puy-en-Velay from before 1087.

November 13, 354 – August 28, 430 ), also known as St. Augustine, St. Austin, or St. Augoustinos, was bishop of Hippo Regius ( present-day Annaba, Algeria ).

In the past, the Bishop of Durham, known as a prince bishop, had extensive viceregal powers within his northern diocese — the power to mint money, collect taxes and raise an army to defend against the Scots.

Saint Bruno of Querfurt ( c. 974 – February 14, 1009 ), also known as Brun and Boniface, is a sainted missionary bishop and martyr, who was beheaded near the border of Kievan Rus and Lithuania while trying to spread Christianity in Eastern Europe.

Before the Norman conquest in 1066, justice was administered primarily by what is today known as the county courts ( the modern " counties " were referred to as " Shires " in pre-Norman times ), presided by the diocesan bishop and the sheriff, exercising both ecclesiastical and civil jurisdiction.

Little is known of his life before he became a bishop ; the assignment of his birth to the year 315 rests on conjecture.

The primacy of Rome makes its bishop the worldwide leader of the church, commonly known as the Pope.

In 834, Hamburg was designated the seat of a Roman Catholic bishopric, whose first bishop, Ansgar, became known as the Apostle of the North.

The Eastern Orthodox Church also has ordination to minor orders ( known as cheirothesia, " imposition of hands ") which is performed outside of the Divine Liturgy, typically by a bishop, although certain archimandrites of stavropegial monasteries may bestow cheirothesia on members of their communities.

Ignatius is the earliest known Christian writer to emphasize loyalty to a single bishop in each city ( or diocese ) who is assisted by both presbyters possibly elders and deacons.

Some manuscripts say that he was a bishop, some even say bishop of Ravenna, but the name Jordanes is not known in the lists of bishops of Ravenna.

In 1430 Pierre Cauchon, the bishop of Beauvais, promoted a trial against Joan of Arc, who was also known as the " Maid of Orleans ".

* Thilo of Trotha, bishop, known through the local legend of the raven

Johannes Müller von Königsberg ( 6 June 1436 – 6 July 1476 ), today best known by his Latin toponym Regiomontanus, was a German mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, translator, instrument maker and Catholic bishop.

During this same 10th century and in the first years of the 11th century Viking riders tried to assault it — Galicia is known in the Nordic sagas as Jackobsland or Gallizaland — and bishop Sisenand II, who was killed in battle against them in 968, ordered the construction of a walled fortress to protect the sacred place.

* Mikhail Petrovich Bulgakov, bishop known as Metropolitan Macarius of Moscow and Kolomna

Gregory of Nyssa ( c. 335 – c. 395 ) ( also known as Gregory Nyssen ) was bishop of Nyssa from 372 to 376, and from 378 until his death.

After a stay of several months, a substitute was found-possibly Gregory's brother Peter, who is known to have been bishop of Sebaste from 381, and Gregory returned home to Nyssa to write books I and II of Against Eunomius.

The first bishop known to history is Nectarius, who took part in several councils about the middle of the fifth century.

Chief among them was Robert, abbot of the Norman abbey of Jumièges, who had known Edward from the 1030s and came to England with him in 1041, becoming bishop of London in 1043.

Civita ( which today is known as Olbia ) represented the capital of the Giudicato of Gallura and also the bishop ’ s see.

The bishop transferred is then known as the Archbishop-Bishop of his new see.

That some tribal chief there, known as king, should have applied to the Roman bishop for instruction in the Christian faith seems improbable enough at that period.

According to the Council of Chalcedon which took place in 451, the local bishop as well as the bishops of Amathus and Arsinoe were involved in the foundation of the city, which would be known by the names of Theodosiana and Neapolis.

** Johannes Rudbeckius, bishop at Västerås ( d. 1646 )

* October 1 – Johannes Dantiscus, Polish poet and bishop ( d. 1548 )

* probable – Johannes Abezier, provost and bishop of the Teutonic Knights ( b. 1380 )

The bishop of Trent, Johannes Hinderbach, had Simonino canonized and published the first book printed in Trent, " Story of a Christian Child Murdered at Trent ," embellished with 12 woodcuts.

John of Salisbury ( c. 1120 – 25 October 1180 ), who described himself as Johannes Parvus (" John the Little "), was an English author, educationalist, diplomat and bishop of Chartres, and was born at Salisbury.

Johannes Rudbeckius or Johannes Rudbeck ( 1581 – 1646 ), bishop at Västerås, Sweden, from 1619 until his death, and personal chaplain to King Gustavus II Adolphus (" the Great ").

Lauri Johannes Ingman ( 30 June 1868 in Teuva – 25 October 1934 in Turku ) was a Finnish theologian, bishop and politician.

The Sacred Congregation of the Propaganda, by its circular letter of 3 March 1882, abolished the expression in partibus infidelium ; the present custom is to join to the name of the see that of the district to which it formerly belonged, e. g. " Johannes Doe, Archiepiscopus Corinthius in Achaiâ ," or else merely to say " titular bishop ".

In reality, they were a gift by Johannes Dircks, a bell-maker from Aalst to Nicolaas van Nieuwland, the bishop of Haarlem, in 1562.

In 1559 the bishop of Courland and Ösel-Wiek Johannes V von Münchhausen sold his lands to the King Frederick II of Denmark for 30, 000 thalers.

Documents in the Vatican Archives, which opened related information in 2003, indicate that von Galen was not the popular candidate to succeed Münster's bishop, Johannes Poggenburg, and was elected only after other candidates had turned down the offer, and in spite of a protest from Nuncio Orsenigo to Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, who expressed his opinion that von Galen was bossy and paternalistic in his public utterances.

In the 15 October 1844 issue of the Sächsische Vaterlandsblätter, Johannes Ronge, a Roman Catholic priest in Silesia, published a vigorous attack upon Wilhelm Arnoldi, bishop of Trier since 1842, for having ordered ( for the first time since 1810 ) the exposition of the alleged seamless robe of Jesus, an event that drew countless pilgrims to the cathedral.

One variation on the Colle is the Colle – Zukertort System ( named for Johannes Zukertort ), characterized by developing the dark-squared bishop on b2.

The son of Johannes, David Buel Knickerbacker ( 1833 – 1894 ), who maintained the original spelling of the family name, graduated at Trinity College in 1853 and at the General Theological Seminary in 1856, was a rector for many years at Minneapolis, Minnesota, and in 1883 was consecrated Protestant Episcopal bishop of Indiana.