He was succeeded as bishop of Milan by Simplician.

Alphonsus a Sancta Maria, or Alphonso de Cartagena ( 1396 – July 12, 1456 ), Spanish historian, was born at Cartagena, and succeeded his father, Paulus, as bishop of Burgos.

On 9 May 328, Athanasius succeeded Alexander as bishop of Alexandria.

The Apostolic Constitutions says that Linus was the first bishop of Rome and was ordained by Paul, and that he was succeeded by Clement, who was ordained by Peter.

Gregory VI was succeeded in the papacy by the German bishop of Bamberg, Suidger, who took the name Pope Clement II.

Pope Saint Sixtus I was bishop of Rome from about 114 or 119 to 124 or 128 C. E., succeeding Pope Alexander I and succeeded by Pope Telesphorus.

However, he does not appear to have joined the order of St. Francis, but rather remained a member of the secular clergy until his elevation to bishop of Carpentras, France, in 1471 ; very shortly after his uncle succeeded to the papal chair.

During his father's life-time he had been beaten by Gervais de Château-du-Loir, bishop of Le Mans ( 1038 ), but later ( 1047 or 1048 ) succeeded in taking the latter prisoner, for which he was excommunicated by Pope Leo IX at the council of Reims ( October 1049 ).

Upon his death on 20 December 217, he was succeeded by his principal advisor, bishop Callixtus I.

Van Nieuwland was succeeded by Godfried van Mierlo, who would be the last bishop in communion with Rome Haarlem would know for 300 years.

In Savoy, his son Humbert III succeeded him, under the regency of bishop Amadeus of Lausanne.

After the fall of the Carolingians Laon took the part of Charles of Lorraine, their heir, and Hugh Capet only succeeded in making himself master of the town by the connivance of the bishop, who, in return for this service, was made second ecclesiastical peer of the kingdom.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records the following entry as part of the entry for 909 or 910 ( in different versions of the chronicle ): " Here Frithustan succeeded to the bishopric in Winchester, and after that Asser, who was bishop at Sherborne, departed.

Probably in 311, a new bishop of Carthage was consecrated by someone who had allegedly been a traditor ; his opponents consecrated a short-lived rival, who was succeeded by Donatus, after whom the schism was named.

Stephen was asked to write the Life by Acca, one of Wilfrid ’ s followers who later became a bishop and succeeded Wilfrid in the See of Hexham.

His brother Æthelmær, also a cleric, later succeeded Stigand as bishop of Elmham.

De Gray was elected Bishop of Norwich on about 7 September 1200, although the election was purely pro forma, as acknowledged by a contemporary writer Roger of Howden, who stated that the new bishop " succeeded to the bishopric of Norwich by the gift of King John ".

That year Bishop Patrice Chiasson, an Acadian who had succeeded Bishop Barry in 1920 as bishop of Chatham, managed with the help of a few priests to keep the college operating.

After the death of the bishop, the Sabbateans were subjected to severe persecution by the rabbis, although they succeeded in obtaining an edict from Augustus III of Poland guaranteeing them safety.

In 1779, Louis de Rohan succeeded his uncle, Constantine de Rohan-Rochefort, as bishop of Strasbourg, though he spent much of his career working in Paris, as he preferred a fashionable life to his clerical duties ; also in 1779, he became abbot of Noirmoutiers and Chaise-Dieu.

Hilary succeeded his kinsman Honoratus as bishop of Arles in 429.

In association with Diodore, afterwards bishop of Tarsus, he supported the Catholic faith ( i. e., orthodox Christian ) against the Arian heretic Leontius, who had succeeded Eustathius as Patriarch of Antioch.

The Eustathians, on the other hand, elected Evagrius as bishop on Paulinus ' death, and it was not until 415 that Flavian succeeded in re-uniting them to the Church.

When Bernard J. McQuaid left Seton Hall in 1869 to assume his duties as bishop of the Diocese of Rochester, Corrigan succeeded him as president of that institution and also became vicar general of the Diocese of Newark.

In 1872, Corrigan succeeded James Roosevelt Bayley as bishop of Newark, becoming the second ordinary of the diocese.

* Adrian von Walenburch ( died 1669 ), auxiliary bishop of Cologne and controversial Dutch Roman Catholic theologian

The last actual bishop was Matthias von Jagow ( d. 1544 ), who took the side of the Reformation, married, and in every way furthered the undertakings of Elector Joachim II.

In 1503 the new bishop Christoph von Utenheim refused to give Basel a new constitution whereupon, to show its power, the city began the construction of a new city hall.

Along with Julius von Pflug, bishop of Naumburg-Zeitz, and Michael Helding, titular bishop of Sidon, he prepared the Augsburg Interim of 1548, a proposed settlement under which Protestants would accept all Catholic authority, being permitted to retain the Protestant teaching on justification but otherwise compelled to accept Catholic doctrine and practice.

Hermann von Gleichen, German bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kammin, was one of the signatories of the treaty and also supported the German colonisation of the region.

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.

After the Polish army moved out of Warmia, the new Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, Heinrich von Plauen the Elder, accused the bishop of treachery and reconquered the region.

In 1478 Braniewo ( Braunsberg ) withstood a Polish siege which was ended in an agreement in which the Polish king recognized von Tüngen as bishop and the right of the Cathedral Chapter to elect future bishops, which however would have to be accepted by the king, and the bishop as well as Cathedral Chapter swore an oath to the Polish king.

* Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, German religious writer and bishop

* Walter von Speyer, German poet and bishop

* February 14 – Nicolaus von Tüngen, bishop

That same city wall was tested during the Third Anglo-Dutch War in 1672, when the city was attacked fiercely by the bishop of Münster, Bernhard von Galen.

The village growing around the castle received Culm law () city rights on 30 October 1330 from bishop Rudolf von Pomesanien ( 1322 – 1332 ).

At the time of its greatest activity, around 1714, it was an international association of 42 members from Carniola and the counties of central Austria assembled under the patronage of the bishop Franz Karl von Kaunitz.

In the summer of 1665 the bishop of Münster, Bernhard von Galen, an old enemy of the Dutch, was induced by promises of English subsidies to invade the Republic.

On 23 May 1266, Kammin bishop Hermann von Gleichen granted a charter to the village Cussalin, giving it Lübeck law, local government, autonomy and multiple privileges ; it became known in German as Cöslin.

Prevailing scholarly theories strongly suggest that the written Nibelungenlied is the work of an anonymous poet from the area of the Danube between Passau and Vienna, dating from about 1180 to 1210, possibly at the court of Wolfger von Erla, the bishop of Passau ( in office 1191 – 1204 ).

As a result the province of Overijssel withdrew its troops from the already small Dutch field army to protect its own cities ; soon after this province capitulated to Bernhard von Galen, the bishop of Münster, who then marched north to occupy Drenthe and lay siege to Groningen.

As with urban legends, particularities lend verisimilitude: the bishop is specifically Paulus von Eitzen, General Superintendent of Schleswig.

After losing a war against the Kingdom of Poland, and with his personal bishop, Georg von Polenz of Pomesania and of Samland, who had converted to Lutheranism in 1523, and a number of his commanders already supporting Protestant ideas, Albert began to consider a radical solution.

He became cathedral preacher at Basel in 1515, serving under Christoph von Utenheim, the humanist bishop of Basel.

He was glad, therefore, hastily to follow the invitation of Johann von Dalberg ( 1445 – 1503 ), the scholarly bishop of Worms, and flee to Heidelberg, which was then the seat of the " Rhenish Society.

Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf und Pottendorf, Imperial Count of Zinzendorf and Pottendorf ( May 26, 1700 – May 9, 1760 ), German religious and social reformer and bishop of the Moravian Church, was born at Dresden.