* 1717 – A sermon on " The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ " by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provokes the Bangorian Controversy.

* March 31 – Bishop Benjamin Hoadly, acting on the advice of King George, begins the Bangorian Controversy by saying that God favors churches with no government.

There are also portraits of his wife and his two sisters and of many other people, among them Bishop Hoadly and Bishop Herring.

This edition, dedicated to William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, was praised by Bishop Hoadly.

In England this essay, which was regarded and treated as a plea for deism, caused a great sensation, eliciting several replies, from among others William Whiston, Bishop Hare, Bishop Benjamin Hoadly, and Richard Bentley, who, under the signature of " Phileleutherus Lipsiensis ", roughly handles certain arguments carelessly expressed by Collins, but triumphs chiefly by an attack on the trivial points of scholarship, his own pamphlet being by no means faultless in this very respect.

* William Law-The Bishop Bangor's Late Sermon ( answer to Hoadly )

Savage's first certain work was a poem satirizing Bishop Hoadly, entitled The Convocation, or The Battle of Pamphlets ( 1717 ), which he afterwards tried to suppress.

Benjamin Hoadly ( 14 November 1676 – 17 April 1761 ) was an English clergyman, who was successively Bishop of Bangor, Hereford, Salisbury, and Winchester.

Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, wrote a reply entitled, Preservative against the Principles and Practices of Non-Jurors ; in it his own Erastian position was sincerely proposed as the only test of truth.

His politics were sufficiently evident in many of his works: a congratulatory epistle to Addison, in Protestant Popery ; or the Convocation ( 1718 ), an attack on the opponents of Bishop Benjamin Hoadly ; and in The Protestant Session by a member of the Constitution Club at Oxford ( 1719 ), addressed to James, first Earl Stanhope, and printed anonymously, but doubtless by Amhurst.

Edward sent Ealdred after the death in battle of Bishop Leofgar of Hereford, who had attacked Gruffydd ap Llywelyn after encouragement from the king.

Oeselians attacked the Swedish stronghold the same year, conquered it and killed the entire Swedish garrison including the Bishop of Linköping.

Once he was securely consecrated Bishop of Rome, his men attacked Ursinus and his remaining supporters who were seeking refuge in the Liberian basilica, resulting in a massacre of 137 supporters of Ursinus.

Bishop Stapledon, unfortunately, failed to realise the extent to which royal power had collapsed in the capital and tried to intervene militarily to protect his property against rioters ; a hated figure locally, he was promptly attacked and killed – his head was later sent to Isabella by her local supporters.

The use of infinitesimals was attacked as incorrect by Bishop Berkeley in his work The Analyst.

Gambit then fought Bishop and was attacked by his estranged wife Bella Donna.

During a visit to Palestine in 394 he attacked Origen's followers and urged the Bishop of Jerusalem, John II, to condemn his writings.

During the reign of Afonso II, when the king continued to provoke the ire of the Papacy, Portuguese knights attacked the Galician tenancy of his half-brother Martin Sanches ( who lived in the kingdom of Alfonso IX of León ), possibly since the Bishop of Braga had estates in that region.

Wood was attacked by Bishop Burnet in A letter to the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry ( 1693 ), and defended by his nephew Dr Thomas Wood, in a Vindication of the Historiographer, to which is added the Historiographer's Answer ( 1693 ), reproduced in the subsequent editions of the Athenae.

Roman Catholic Bishop attacked by William Lyon Mackenzie.

Her remarks were attacked by the then AMA president and soon-to-be Liberal MP for the neighbouring seat of Bradfield, Brendan Nelson, who said that: " Mrs Bishop has a lot to learn about health ... there are now more than 50, 000 pieces of medical research and literature supporting the view that smoking is injurious to humans.

The government attacked Bishop over the statements, saying she had " broken a long-standing convention " in not speculating about intelligence practices.

The castle was attacked by Scottish forces in 1306 under Bishop Wishart of Glasgow ( using timber given to Glasgow diocese by the English for cathedral repairs ), but the siege was unsuccessful.

Whilst on a trip to England, to visit Brian Braddock, the brother of Betsy Braddock, who was murdered on a mission with the X-Men by Vargas, Marvel Girl, Cannonball and Bishop were attacked by The Fury.

On August 14, 1905, Ngindo tribesmen attacked a small party of missionaries on a safari ; all five, including Bishop Spiss ( the Roman Catholic Bishop of Dar es Salaam ) were speared to death.

The craft was soon attacked, and Bishop convinced her to release him so that they could deal with the matter together.

Ms. Bishop alleged that the fight started when Mr Dixon attacked in a drunken fit of pique after she shunned his unwanted sexual advances.

Svatopluk, however, soon assembled a large army and attacked the Bavarians who had been left behind under the command of Bishop Emriacho of Regensburg to guard ships on the bank of the river Danube.

Kate Bishop was attacked in a park.

In their plan to replace English rule in Ireland, the insurgents had already attacked several towns and villages within the Pale, including the palace of the Protestant Bishop of Meath and the burning of Navan and Athboy.

A further point to be noted is that the sources record that the warrior-Bishop Wimund attacked another Bishop, an attack aimed at bringing the other bishop under his control.

William Jenkyn also attacked Goodwin ( The Busie Bishop, or the Visitor Visited, and The Blind Guide, or Doling Doctor, 1648 ).

* Bishop Isidore of Seville ( 560 – 636 ) taught in his widely read encyclopedia, the Etymologies diverse views such as that the Earth " resembles a wheel " resembling Anaximander in language and the map that he provided.

Upon Powell's death, Wilfred Wood, then Bishop of Croydon, stated, " Enoch Powell gave a certificate of respectability to white racist views which otherwise decent people were ashamed to acknowledge ".

In April 1939, the Bishop of Southwark asked Jung if he had any specific views on what was likely to be the next step in religious development.

An alternative walk up Mount Bishop also provides panoramic and spectacular views of the Prom.

Geble Pedersson ( c. 1490 — 1557 ) was the first Lutheran Bishop of Bergen and a man of broad humanistic views ; his adopted son, Absalon Pederssøn Beyer ( 1528 — 1575 ), followed in his footsteps as a humanist and a nationalist, writing an important historical work, Concerning the Kingdom of Norway ( 1567 ).

Pope John XXII himself held heterodox views about the Last Judgement and was a very political pope asserting excessive authority over the Emperor whilst continuing to maintain the Avignon exile, itself a scandal to the Papacy since the Pope must be Bishop of Rome and must, by canon law, live in his Diocese.

However, Catholic Bishop Gardiner takes a dislike to Catherine's religious views.

The Church of God in Christ views its Presiding Bishop as the positional and functional leader of the Church.

From the town centre, Bishop Street, Silver Street, Calverts Lane and Thistle Green offer views of the river where it meanders around Teesdale Business Park.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center welcomed the news that the Vatican has demanded that Bishop Richard Williamson recant his views denying the Holocaust before being re-admitted to the Roman Catholic Church.

When Bishop James P. Shannon expressed views critical of the Church hierarchy in an NBC documentary in the late 1960s, McIntyre described Shannon's views as constituting " incipient schism.

Saloman, Bishop of Bassorah, and the later Universalist historian Hosea Ballou II claimed Theodore as a Universalist, but others contend his views of apokatastasis do not clearly demonstrate this.

In response, the Bishop of Leicester, Tim Stevens, said Helmer had not aired these views when he debated climate change in Leicester cathedral and asked whether " this was merely courtesy, or was it because the opportunity for a platform meant more to him than exposing his views to scrutiny or challenge from a live audience ".

The hall was crowded to hear Bishop Samuel Wilberforce's views on Charles Darwin's recent publication of On the Origin of Species, and the occasion was a historically significant part of the reaction to Darwin's theory due to reports of Thomas Henry Huxley's response to Wilberforce.

" Thomas Newton, Bishop of Bristol and Dean of St. Paul's, criticised Gibbon and claimed that Burnet's views were exactly the opposite.

John Jackson, the evangelical Bishop of London, was even more troubled by Headlam's views than Maul, and there followed a series of clashes between the bishop and the wayward curate that became personalised and would eventually leave Headlam without a parish and unable to officiate at services.

Percival's strong Christian religious views ( he later became a Bishop ) influenced his views on education, in that he believed that opportunities should be available to both males and females irrespective of their declared faith.

Bishop Basil, however, refused to meet with the commission appointed by the Holy Synod to conduct this enquiry, and recommended others not to do so either, opting instead to set forth his views on his web-page and in the media.

In the Febronian controversy he had early taken a mediating attitude, and it was largely due to his influence that Bishop Hontheim had been induced to retract his extreme views.

In the meantime his book ( in an Italian translation with the imprimatur of Siena ) had had a great impact on Geremia Bonomelli, the Bishop of Cremona in Italy, who added an appendix to a book of his own, summarizing and recommending Zahn's views.

Again, the reasons for these irregular ordinations were the views on homosexuality of the current Bishop of Southwark, Christopher Chessun.