Honoratus was called to be Bishop of Arles.

At the siege of Milan by the Lombard Alboin, the Bishop Honoratus ( 568 ) sought refuge in Genoa, with a great number of his clergy ,, and at his death the Milanese at Genoa elected to succeed him Laurentius II, while Fronto ( elected at Milan ) was not recognized.

Ambrose was the Governor of Aemilia-Liguria in northern Italy until 374 when he became the Bishop of Milan.

Ambrose was Bishop of Milan at the time of Augustine's conversion, and is mentioned in Augustine's Confessions.

Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, certainly did not found religious orders, though he took an interest in the monastic life and watched over its beginnings in his diocese, providing for the needs of a monastery outside the walls of Milam, as Saint Augustine recounts in his Confessions.

When the Bishop of Constantinople was exiled from his See, he wrote three letters to those he considered the most important Bishops of the West seeking to obtain their support with the Emperors: he wrote one letter to the Bishop of Rome, the second to the Bishop of Milan and the third to the Bishop of Aquileia, precisely, Chromatius ( Ep.

:" I address this letter also to Venerius, Bishop of Milan, and to Chromatius, Bishop of Aquileia.

On 22 July 1262 Ottone Visconti was created archbishop of Milan by Pope Urban IV, against the Della Torre candidate, Raimondo della Torre, Bishop of Como.

The historian Malchus maintains that in 480 Glycerius was a member of the conspiracy that led to Emperor Nepos ' death and thus sought the favour of Odoacer ; however, the news of Glycerius ' appointment to the prestigious rank of Bishop of Milan, which would support the theory of the collaboration between Glycerius and Odoacer, is usually considered a rumor.

* Augustine is baptized on Easter Vigil by Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Milan.

* Bishop Eustorgius I brings relics of the Three Magi from Constantinople to Milan, according to a 12th century legend.

Negotiations followed in 384 including the intervention of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, leading to an accord with Valentinian II and Theodosius I in which Maximus was recognized as Augustus in the west.

The first and oldest known Christian basilica is that of St John Lateran, which was given to the Bishop of Rome by Constantine right before or around the Edict of Milan in 313 and was consecrated in the year 324.

When the Lombards invaded Italy in 568, the Bishop of Milan fled and held his seat in Genoa.

Meanwhile, Peter Damian and Bishop Anselm of Lucca had been sent by Nicholas II to Milan to adjust the difference between the Patarenes and the archbishop and clergy.

* Bishop On Bondage ( series of magazines ) ( House of Milan, 1984 )

The Genoese flag was adopted from the personal flag of St. Ambrose, the 4th century Bishop of Milan who was a key figure in the development of Christianity in the West.

Ambrose, the influential Bishop of Milan and future saint, wrote on their behalf to reject Symmachus's request for tolerance.

The situation was made even more dire when Henry IV installed his chaplain, Tedald, a Milanese priest, as Bishop of Milan, when another priest of Milan, Atto, had already been chosen in Rome by the pope for candidacy.

This religious policy created tension with Theodosius and the powerful and influential Bishop Ambrose, who left his see in Milan when the imperial court of Eugenius arrived.

In the 10th century, Bishop of Milan began to consolidate more and more power to himself at the expense of the Kings of the Germans.

Manuscripts, Nero A. II, in the British Museum ), written about the middle of the eighth century, probably by an Irish monk in France, is found perhaps the earliest attribution of the Milan use to St. Ambrose, though it quotes the authority of St. Augustine, probably alluding to the passage already mentioned: " Est et alius cursus quem refert beatus augustinus episcopus quod beatus ambrosius propter hereticorum ordinem dissimilem composuit quem in italia antea de cantabatur " ( There is yet another Cursus which the blessed Bishop Augustine says that the blessed Ambrose composed because of the existence of a different use of the heretics, which previously used to be sung in Italy ).

The characteristics they shared with many Merovingian female saints may be mentioned: Regenulfa of Incourt, a 7th-century virgin in French-speaking Brabant of the ancestral line of the dukes of Brabant fled from a proposal of marriage to live isolated in the forest, where a curative spring sprang forth at her touch ; Ermelindis of Meldert, a 6th-century virgin related to Pepin I, inhabited several isolated villas ; Begga of Andenne, the mother of Pepin II, founded seven churches in Andenne during her widowhood ; the purely legendary " Oda of Amay " was drawn into the Carolingian line by spurious genealogy in her 13th-century vita, which made her the mother of Arnulf, Bishop of Metz, but she has been identified with the historical Saint Chrodoara ; finally, the widely-venerated Gertrude of Nivelles, sister of Begga in the Carolingian ancestry, was abbess of a nunnery established by her mother.

Alcison found his position as bishop being usurped by Bishop John of Euria in Epirus, who had fled his home along with his clergy to escape from attacks by the Slavs and Avars.

San Marino finally had to make a choice on February 5, 1797, when, with the arrival of a letter from General Louis Alexandre Berthier addressed to the Regents, it was required to arrest and consign the Bishop of Rimini, Monsignor Vincenzo Ferretti, accused of instigating crimes against the French, who fled with all his possessions to San Marino.

Robert was also demanding heavy taxes, and Ralph fled with Serlo, Bishop of Séez, who was also subjected to Robert's demands.

Born about 80 years in the future of the Marvel Universe, Bishop was the son of Aborigine mutant refugees who fled Australia for America a day before it was devastated in a nuclear attack.

At Bishop Henry's bidding, his entourage fled and hid in a nearby forest, while Lalli decapitated Henry with an axe.

At this same time ( 846 ) the episcopal see of Gaeta was founded when Constantine, Bishop of Formiae, fled thither and established his residence.

He became a Deacon, and was ordained by Gaudentius, the Bishop of Rimini, until he was accused by an insane woman of being her estranged husband, when he fled to Monte Titano to live as a hermit.

According to Phayer, " at the end of the war, the leaders of the Ustasha movement, including its clerical supporters such as Bishop Saric, fled the country, taking gold looted from massacred Jews and Serbs with them to Rome ".

In the ensuing battle, more than 8, 000 peasants were slaughtered by the princes ; and Bishop Konrad II von Thungen was able to return to his fortress, from which he had earlier fled.

They died at the Bishop of Lincoln's Palace, Buckden, in the village of Buckden near Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, where they had fled in an attempt to escape the epidemic.

Bishop was arrested for embezzlement in February 1978 and given a five-year suspended sentence, but he skipped his parole and fled to Salt Lake City, living under the alias " Roger Downs ".

In 673, Sighere separated from Osyth, who then fled to the protection of Bishop Beaduwine of North Elmham.

The city is named after Bishop George Berkeley.

This records that: King Constantine and Bishop Cellach met at the Hill of Belief near the royal city of Scone and pledged themselves that the laws and disciplines of the faith, and the laws of churches and gospels, should be kept pariter cum Scottis.

Cyril of Jerusalem: Bishop and city.

During the first siege, Ephrem credits Bishop Jacob as defending the city with his prayers.

The meeting of King Constantine and Bishop Cellach at the Hill of Belief near the ( formerly Pictish ) royal city of Scone in 906 cemented the rights and duties of Picts on an equal basis with those of Gaels ( pariter cum Scottis ).

Leipzig was first documented in 1015 in the chronicles of Bishop Thietmar of Merseburg and endowed with city and market privileges in 1165 by Otto the Rich.

The city which emerged from the camp was ruled by the Dukes of Savoy and the Bishop of Lausanne.

( This was similar to what happened with Saint Augustine of Hippo, who had been ordained against his will in the year 391 by a crowd cooperating with Bishop Valerius in the north African city of Hippo Regius.

In September 1044 the opposition forced him out of the city again and elected John, Bishop of Sabina, as Pope Sylvester III.

In 1077, Bishop Basil Kartzimopoulos rebuilt part of the defenses inside the city.

His teacher Giovanni da Legnano sponsored him at Rome, where Pope Urban VI ( 1378 – 89 ) took him into the Curia, sent him for ten years as papal collector to England, made him Bishop of Bologna in 1386 at a time of strife in that city, and Archbishop of Ravenna in 1387.

The Bishop Ulrich defended Augsburg, a border city of Swabia, with a contingent of soldiers.

During the same year Matthew was appointed Bishop of Worms, but, beyond his settling of the dispute between the people and clergy of that city, we know little of his episcopal activity.

Accompanied by Bishop Bernward of Hildesheim and the German chronicler Thangmar, Otto III returned to the city to conduct peace negotiations between the Emperor and the rebellious Romans.

* The town of Riga is chartered as a city by Bishop Albert, who landed on the site of the town with 1, 500 crusaders earlier that year.

* Saint Denis, first Bishop of Paris, and two of his disciples are beheaded on the road to the Temple of Mercury that stands atop a hill outside of the city.

In the second half of the century, Bishop Otto tried to resist the aims of the powerful countess Adelaide of Susa, who damaged the city several times.

She was married to Edward, first by proxy, when Edward dispatched the Bishop of Coventry " to marry her in his name " in Valenciennes ( second city in importance of the county of Hainaut ) in October 1327.

The consul Jovinus, an influential supporter of the new faith, repelled the Alamanni who invaded Champagne in 336 ; but the Vandals captured the city in 406 and slew Bishop Nicasius ; and in 451 Attila the Hun put Reims to fire and sword.

The city gave its name to two suburbs of Paris, France: Maisons-Alfort ( population 54, 600 ) and Alfortville ( population 36, 232 ), due to a manor built there by Peter of Aigueblanche, Bishop of Hereford, in the middle of the 13th century.

The city was restored to obedience by Giovanni Vitelleschi, the militant Bishop of Recanati, in the following October.

He also ordered the construction of the Palais du Parlement ( finished under Francis I ) and ensured that the Bishop pledged allegiance, thus forging the political union of the city.

In the Middle Ages the Church held much property in Carniola, thus in Upper and Lower Carniola the Bishop of Freising became in 974 a feudal lord of the city of Škofja Loka, the Bishop of Brixen held Bled and possessions in the valley of Bohinj, and the Bishop of Lavant got Mokronog.