In the 20th century, theologians like Jürgen Moltmann, Hans Küng, John Robinson, Bishop David Jenkins, Don Cupitt and Bishop Jack Spong challenged traditional theological positions and understandings of the Bible ; following these developments some have suggested that passages have been mistranslated or that they do not refer to what we understand as " homosexuality.

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 the reformation Bishop Barlow ( 1536 – 48 ), a staunch Protestant, stripped the shrine of its jewels and confiscated the relics of David and Justinian.

Unlike many contemporary ' saints ' of Wales, David was officially recognised by the Vatican by Pope Callixtus II in 1120, thanks to the work of Bernard, Bishop of St David's.

# David Bishop, # 978 – 1199 ( 1996 – 2000 )

** Tharg the Mighty ( David Bishop ) nominated for the Eagle Awards: Favourite Comics Editor

* David Bishop ( 2002 – 2003 ), " Thrill Power Overload!

He was a maternal nephew of David fitzGerald, the Bishop of St David's and a grandson of Gerald de Windsor ( alias FitzWalter ), Constable of Pembroke Castle, and Nest the daughter of Rhys ap Tewdwr.

It starred poets Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso, artists Larry Rivers ( Milo ) and Alice Neel ( bishop's mother ), musician David Amram, actors Richard Bellamy ( Bishop ) and Delphine Seyrig ( Milo's wife ), dancer Sally Gross ( bishop's sister ), and Pablo Frank, Robert Frank's then-young son.

* David Niven as Bishop Henry Brougham

* Malo, David: Hawaiian Antiquities ( Mo ' olelo Hawai ' i ), Bishop Museum Press, 1951 ( 1903 )

In 1221 Jacques de Vitry, Bishop of Acre, returned from the disastrous Fifth Crusade with good news: King David of India, the son or grandson of Prester John, had mobilized his armies against the Saracens.

* David Sheppard, former England cricket captain, was Bishop of Woolwich from 1969-1975.

* Malo, David, Hawaiian Antiquities, first published in English in 1898, available as Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication 2, Second Edition, 1951

Bishop Barlow, unlike his predecessor as Bishop, wished to suppress the following of David, and stripped St David's shrine of its jewels and confiscated the relics of St David and St Justinian in order to counteract " superstition " in 1538.

1989-90 saw the 1400th anniversary of the death of St David, presided over, rather aptly by the Archbishop of Wales, Dr George Noakes, who was also Diocesan Bishop of St David's.

* H. David Burton, Presiding Bishop of the LDS Church

An LDS ward was organized there in 1877 with Francis Hammond as Bishop, and he was succeeded in 1885 by David McKay.

* David Lindsay ( d. 1613 ), chaplain of James VI of Scotland and Bishop of Ross-buried here

There are also three accommodation complexes: the Bishop Complex ( Bishop, Kilmorey, Lacy and St Margaret ’ s Halls ); the Lancaster Complex ( Lancaster, Stockwell, Southwark, Borough Road, Maria Grey and Gordon Halls ); and the Isambard Complex ( North, Meadow, Michael Bevis, Concourse, Stephen Bragg, West, Maurice Kogan, David Neave, Central, East, Runnymede, George Shipp, Trevor Slater, Shoreditch, Syd Urry, South and Brian Winstanley Halls ).

* David Zubik ( born 1949 ), current Bishop of Pittsburgh

* 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.

* The Bishop of Dover is given the additional title of " Bishop in Canterbury " and empowered to act almost as if he were the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury, since the archbishop is so frequently away fulfilling national and international duties.

Some Anglican suffragans are given the responsibility for a geographical area within the diocese ( for example, the Bishop of Stepney is an area bishop within the Diocese of London ).

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.

* 9 Assistant Bishops in Egypt for 8 Suffragan Dioceses within an Archdiocese under the Pope's jurisdiction ; while 1 Suffragan Diocese still needs an Assistant Bishop.

With this deed dating back to August 15, 805 A. D., the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, she donated her entire property in Dachau, including 5 so called Colonenhöfe and some serfs and bondsman, to devolve to the Bishop of the Diocese of Freising after her death.

Reference is made within the story to the York Minster, where the climactic wedding takes place, and to the Bishop of Sheffield, although the Diocese of Sheffield was not founded until 1914.

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.

Though the Pope is the diocesan Bishop of the Diocese of Rome, he delegates most of the day-to-day work of leading the diocese to the Cardinal Vicar, who assures direct episcopal oversight of the diocese's pastoral needs, not in his own name but in that of the Pope.

Pope Saint Linus ( died c. 76 ) was, according to several early sources, Bishop of the Diocese of Rome after Saint Peter.

A Pope at Avignon, the successor of Clement VI, he was a native of the hamlet of Les Monts, Diocese of Limoges ( today part of the commune of Beyssac, département of Corrèze ), and, after having taught civil law at Toulouse, he became successively Bishop of Noyon and Bishop of Clermont.

In 1859 the Anglican Diocese of St Helena was set up for St Helena, including Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha ( initially also including the Falkland Islands, Rio de Janeiro and other towns along the east coast of South America ), the first Bishop of St Helena arriving on the island that year.

St. John Fisher College was founded as a men's college in 1948 by the Basilian Fathers and with the aid of Father James E. Kearney, then the Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester.

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

** Eoghan Mac Cathmhaoil, Irish, Bishop of the Diocese of Clogher

Additionally, after the death of the Bishop of Halberstadt in November 996, who had been one of the masterminds behind the abolition of the bishopric of Merseburg, Otto III and Pope Gregory V began to process of reviving the Diocese.

A descendant of the count later gave the lands to the Diocese of Urgell, headed by Bishop of Urgell.

** Brian MacCathmhaoil, Irish, Bishop of the Diocese of Clogher

** Art Mac Cathmhaoil, Irish, Bishop of the Diocese of Clogher

In 1887 Bishop Henry Codman Potter of the Episcopal Diocese of New York called for a cathedral to rival St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan.

In 463, Mamertus of Vienne had consecrated a Bishop of Die, although this Church, by a decree of Leo I, belonged to the metropolitan Diocese of Arles.