Ultimately, the delegates sided with Bishop Asbury.

He opposed Bishop Asbury and the episcopacy.

Regardless, Asbury remained the leading bishop of early American Methodism and did not share his " appointing " authority until Bishop McKendree was elected in 1808.

The first American Methodist bishops were Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury, whose boyhood home, Bishop Asbury Cottage, in West Bromwich, England, is now a museum.

Reverend Major George Neal began to preach in Niagara in October 1786, and was ordained in 1810 by Bishop Philip Asbury, at the Lyons, New York Methodist Conference.

* August 20 – Francis Asbury, American Methodist Bishop ( d. 1816 )

Among those entertained at Beechwood Hall in the early 19th century was Bishop Francis Asbury, a circuit rider credited with spreading Methodism to the Southern Appalachian region.

Around 1800, Sidnor's Inn opened at Crab Orchard, with Bishop Francis Asbury being among its earliest guests.

" Bishop Asbury died in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.

* Asbury's boyhood home, Bishop Asbury Cottage, in Sandwell, England, is now a museum.

* In 1796 Bishop Asbury helped lay the cornerstone for the church in Hall's Mills, NJ which shortly changed its name to Asbury ( now a village in Franklin Township, Warren County, NJ ).

* Trailblazin ' Bishop: The Francis Asbury Story.

* Facebook page of Bishop Francis Asbury. Quotes from Asbury's journal, portraits and more

* Bishop Asbury Cottage.

* America's Bishop: The Life of Francis Asbury ( 2003 ) by Darius Salter ( ISBN 1-928915-39-6 )

Methodist Episcopal Bishop Francis Asbury preached at Otterbein's funeral.

From 1788 to 1808, the entire text of A Plain Account was placed in the Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and numerous persons in early American Methodism professed the experience of entire sanctification, including Bishop Francis Asbury.

In recognition of his leadership and preaching, in 1799, Allen was ordained as the first black Methodist minister by Bishop Francis Asbury.

Image: F Asbury statue Drew U jeh. jpg | Francis Asbury, first Methodist Bishop in America

In 1799, Allen was ordained as the first black minister in the Methodist Church by Bishop Francis Asbury.

Notable buildings in the town include the pargetted Bishop Bonners Cottage, built in 1502, the Norman parish church, a windmill and a large mushroom-shaped water tower.

It was called the Fordkeeper's Cottage and was built by Bishop Vesey.

Bishop Asbury Cottage ( incorrectly named as " Bishop Ashbury's Cottage " on Ordnance Survey maps ), was where Francis Asbury, the first American Methodist Bishop, was raised.

* Bishop Asbury Cottage

An antipope () or anti-pope is a person who, in opposition to the one who is generally seen as the legitimately elected Pope, makes a significantly accepted competing claim to be the Pope, the Bishop of Rome and leader of the Catholic Church.

Saint David ( c. 500 – 589 ) () was a Welsh Bishop during the 6th century ; he was later regarded as a saint and as the patron saint of Wales.

* During reign of Croatian king Trpimir II, Pope Leo VI abolished the Nin Bishopric and transferred Bishop Gregory () to Skradin.

Maximilian Kaller ( 10 October 1880 – 7 July 1947 ) was Roman Catholic Bishop of Ermland () in East Prussia from 1930 – 1947, however, de facto expelled since mid-August 1945 he served as special bishop for the homeland-expellees until his death.

Aldhelm () ( c. 639 – 25 May 709 ), Abbot of Malmesbury Abbey, Bishop of Sherborne, Latin poet and scholar of Anglo-Saxon literature, was born before the middle of the 7th century.

Llandaff Cathedral () is the seat of the Bishop of Llandaff, head of the Church in Wales Diocese of Llandaff.

Bishop Auckland () is a market town and civil parish in County Durham in north east England.

The first records about the population on Abruka originate from the Middle Ages, when the Bishop of Ösel-Wiek founded a horse breeding manor () there.

The China Christian Council () or CCC was founded in 1980 as an umbrella organization for all Protestant churches in the People's Republic of China with Bishop K. H. Ting (, 1915 –) as its president.

Saint Leander of Seville () ( Cartagena, c. 534 – Seville, March 13, 600 or 601 ), brother of the encyclopedist St. Isidore of Seville, was the Catholic Bishop of Seville who was instrumental in effecting the conversion to Catholicism of the Visigothic kings Hermengild and Reccared of Hispania ( the Iberian Peninsula, comprising both modern Spain and Portugal ).

Leontios () was Bishop of Neapolis ( Limassol ) in Cyprus in the 7th century AD.

Immediately after the battle, Afonso Henriques is said to have called for the first assembly of the estates-general () of Portugal at Lamego, where he was given the Crown from the Bishop of Braga, to confirm the Portuguese independence from the Kingdom of León.

Cap., () ( August 21, 1567 – December 28, 1622 ) was a Bishop of Geneva and is honored as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.

Bishop of Llandaff Church in Wales High School () is a Church in Wales, Christian faith comprehensive school in the Llandaff area of Cardiff, Wales

Ignatius Basile Moses I Daoud ( or Moussa Daoud ) () ( born 18 September 1930 – 7 April 2012 ) was Patriarch Emeritus of Antioch for the Syrian Catholic Church, a Cardinal Bishop ( because he was an Eastern Patriarch ), and Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches in the Catholic Church.

" Some feel he clearly teaches that women are not to have authority over men in the church structure () and that this is why he clearly excludes them from the roles of Elder / Bishop and Deacon in chapter three.

* Fidelis ( Bishop of Mérida ), ()

* Saint Innocent, Bishop of Cherson ( 1857 ) ()

Saint Volusianus () was the seventh Bishop of Tours, from 491 to 498.