The establishment of the bishopric of Konstanz cannot be dated exactly and was possibly undertaken by Columbanus himself ( before 612 ).

Constance was a missionary bishopric in newly converted lands, and did not look back on late Roman church history ( unlike the Raetian bishopric of Chur, established 451 ) and Basel, which was an episcopal seat from 740, and which continued the line of Bishops of Augusta Raurica, see Bishop of Basel.

After his death, the king was buried in the church which he had built ; his original tomb has been lost, while his alleged remains are preserved in the shrine where he was reburied after being declared a saint ; his saintliness, however, was never very widely acknowledged outside the bishopric of Liège where he may still be venerated by tradition.

Ealdred helped Sweyn not only because Ealdred was a supporter of Earl Godwin's family but because Sweyn's earldom was close to his bishopric.

Although Ealdred gave up the bishopric, the appointment of Wulfstan was one that allowed Ealdred to continue his considerable influence on the see of Worcester.

Although its function is unknown, it has been often suggested that the jewel was one of the æstels — pointers for reading — that Alfred ordered sent to every bishopric accompanying a copy of his translation of the Pastoral Care.

While Alexander had been priming Athanasius to assume the bishopric after his death, it is said, he was not unanimously supported, and questions of his age ( the minimum age to become a bishop was thirty, and questions remain to this day whether he was yet that old ).

It was established in 1186 as the bishopric of Livonia at Üxküll, then after moving to Riga it became the bishopric of Riga in 1202 and was elevated to an archbishopric in 1255.

There were two more nominal bishops, but on the petition of the latter of these, the electoral prince John George, the secularisation of the bishopric was undertaken and finally accomplished, in spite of legal proceedings to reassert the imperial immediacy of the prince-bishopric within the Empire and so to likewise preserve the diocese, which dragged on into the seventeenth century.

In about 1225, during a lull in the Albigensian Crusade, the bishopric of Razes was added.

Distantly related to the imperial family of Constantine, he owed his progression from a less significant Levantine bishopric to the most important episcopal see to his influence at court, and the great power he wielded in the Church was derived from that source.

The bishopric at Kirkjubøur, south of Tórshavn, where remains of the cathedral may be seen, was also abolished.

It was probably Algarotti who introduced his friend Tiepolo to Karl Philipp von Greifenclau zu Vollraths where he painted his masterwork on the ceiling of the main hall of the bishopric residence.

The Emperor Diocletian is said to have made Florentia the seat of a bishopric around the beginning of the 4th century AD, but this seems improbable as Diocletian was a notable persecutor of Christians.

She financed a scholarship for twenty Lithuanians to study at Charles University in Prague to help strengthen Christianity in their country, to which purpose she also founded a bishopric in Vilnius.

In Wessex, a bishopric was founded at Dorchester.

Arbroath Abbey was founded ( 1178 ), and the bishopric of Argyll established ( c. 1192 ) in the same year as papal confirmation of the Scottish church by Pope Celestine III.

* The first Polish bishopric is founded in Poznań.

Christianity had become established in the city by 260, at which period Saint Sixtus of Reims founded the Reims bishopric.

Besides these buildings which were part of the official structures of the bishopric ; an additional four parish churches were constructed in the city: the Jacobikerk ( dedicated to Saint James ), founded in the 11th century, with the current Gothic church dating back to the 14th century ; the Buurkerk ( Neighbourhood-church ) of the 11th century parish in the centre of the city ; Nicolaichurch ( dedicated to Saint Nicholas ), from the 12th century and the 13th century Geertekerk ( dedicated to Saint Gertrude of Nivelles ).

The Prince-Bishopric of Lavant with its bishop's seat at Sankt Andrä in the Carinthian Lavant valley was founded as a bishopric in 1228 and raised to a prince-bishopric in 1446.

It was founded ( or founded again, if the theories that it was already existing and was even the seat of a Christian bishopric are true ) by the Muslim nobleman Ibn Marwan around 875, after he had been expelled from Mérida.

It is around this time that the town of La Seu d ' Urgell ( in Catalonia, but outside of Cerdanya ) started to replace Julia Libyca as the main center of population in that area of northern Catalonia, and in the 6th century when the diocese ( bishopric ) of Urgell was founded, Cerdanya was inside its limits.

In the meantime, he founded a new bishopric in Zagreb during 1094.

In 1862 the bishopric of León was founded, separating the city of León and nine other municipalities such as Irapuato, Guanajuato and Dolores Hidalgo from the bishopric of Michoacán.

Paderborn was founded as a bishopric by Charlemagne in 795.

According to tradition, he founded the See of Byzantium in 38, installing Stachys as bishop ( the only bishopric in that neighbourhood before that time had been established at Heraclea ).

The first Serbian bishopric was founded at the political center at Ras, near modern Novi Pazar on the Ibar river.

The first Serbian bishopric, the Eparchy of Ras, was founded by 871 after the Christianization of Serbs during the rule of Prince Mutimir.

The cathedral for the South Saxons was founded in 681 at Selsey ; the seat of the bishopric was moved to Chichester in 1075.

Around this time there was an Archbishopric or bishopric of the Frisians founded for Willibrord and a marriage was held between Grimoald the Younger, the oldest son of Pippin, and Thiadsvind, the daughter of Radbod in 711.

The north's leading educational and cultural centre, it is the seat of a bishopric, and its cathedral ( Igreja da Sé, founded in 1917 ) is one of Brazil's largest.

Significantly, the bishopric of Prague, founded in 973 during the reign of Boleslaus II ( 967 – 99 ), was subordinated to the archbishopric of Mainz.

In the year 1060, as the bishopric of Prague was founded, prince Spytihněv II embarked on building a more spacious church, as it became clear the existing rotunda was too small to accommodate the faithful.

The present day Gothic Cathedral was founded on 21st of November, 1344, when the Prague bishopric was raised to an archbishopric.

The Syriac Orthodox Church's bishopric of Germany was founded in 1997 and has its episcopal seat in the former Dominican monastery in Warburg.

In 1836, the first new bishopric was founded, that of Ripon ; but it was balanced out by the merger of the Bishoprics of Bristol and Gloucester.

This led him to create the Diocese at Hamar, and, according to tradition, to form Cathedral schools in Norway's bishopric cities.

He was made cardinal-priest of Santi Nereo e Achilleo and administrator of the bishopric of Avignon by Benedict XII in 1338 and was chosen to succeed him as pope at the papal conclave of 1342.

Maybe raided from 711 to 739 by the Arabs, the bishopric of Iria was incorporated into the Kingdom of Asturias c. 750 ; some tens of years later, at some point between 818 and 842, bishop Theodemar of Iria ( d. 847 ), found some remains which were attributed to Saint James the Greater, during the reign of Alfonso II of Asturias.

Northumbria had established a bishopric among the Southern Picts at Abercorn in 681, under Bishop Trumwine.

One such bishopric was established at Whithorn in 731, and Bede's account serves to support the legitimacy of the new Northumbrian bishopric.

He established a second bishopric at Winchester, while the one at Dorchester was soon abandoned as Mercian power pushed southwards.

He issued the oldest surviving English code of laws apart from those of the kingdom of Kent, and established a second West Saxon bishopric at Sherborne, covering the territories west of Selwood Forest.

However, at that same time Avignon was reduced to the rank of a bishopric and was made a suffragan see of Aix.

The Catholic bishopric was suppressed in 1581 after the diocese accepted the Protestant Reformation ( 1559 ), but re-created in 1921 with its seat first at Bautzen and now at the Katholische Hofkirche in Dresden.

After completing his studies in the Jesuit college of Cesena and receiving his doctorate of law ( 1734 ), Braschi continued his studies at the University of Ferrara, where he became the private secretary of Tommaso Ruffo, papal legate, in whose bishopric of Ostia and Velletri he held the post of auditor until 1753.

Likewise, as Elipandus's bishopric of Toledo was at the time within the Muslim Caliphate of Cordoba, Islamic beliefs which acknowledged Jesus as a Prophet, but not as the Son of God, influenced the formation of adoptionism.

As a royal clerk, Gerald observed significant political events at first hand, and was offered appointments as bishoprics of Wexford and Leighlin, and apparently at a little later time the bishopric of Ossory and the archbishopric of Cashel, and later the Welsh Bishopric of Bangor and, in 1191, that of Llandaff.

A letter written by John of Rya, the Catholic bishop of Baia refers to Bacău as a civitas which implies the existence of a Catholic bishopric in the town at that time.