Newest on the list are John Ciardi, W. D. Snodgrass, I. A. Richards, Oscar Williams, Robert Hillyer, John Hall Wheelock, Stephen Vincent Benet, Edwin Muir, John Peal Bishop and Maxwell Bodenheim.

* 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.

Grimbald and John the Saxon came from Francia ; Plegmund ( whom Alfred appointed archbishop of Canterbury in 890 ), Bishop Werferth of Worcester, Æthelstan, and the royal chaplains Werwulf, from Mercia ; and Asser, from St. David's in south-western Wales.

In the summer of 1234, the Bishop John of Bosnia excommunicated Andrew because he had not respected some provisions of the Agreement of Bereg.

* Jürgen Klötgen, Prieuré d ' Abergavenny – Tribulations mancelles en Pays de Galles au temps du Pape Jean XXII ( d ' après des documents français et anglais du XIV ° siècle collationnés avec une source d ' histoire retrouvée aux Archives Secrètes du Vatican ), in Revue Historique et Archéologique du Maine, Le Mans, 1989, p. 65 – 88 ( 1319: cf John of Hastings, Lord of Abergavenny ; Adam de Orleton, Bishop of Hereford, John of Monmouth, Bishop of Llandaff ).

In Bede's thirtieth year ( about 702 ) Bede became a priest, with the ordination again performed by Bishop John.

This remarkable text, originally written in Latin, is extant only in the 1549 translation of Bishop John Ponet.

1549 translation of Bishop John Ponet.

The first Manx translation of the Book of Common Prayer was made by Bishop John Phillips of Sodor and Man in 1610.

Edward Bishop Elliott, in the Horae Apocalypticae ( 1862 ), argues that John wrote the book in exile on Patmos " at the close of the reign of Domitian ; that is near the end of the year 95 or beginning of 96 ".

The canonization of Saint Udalric, Bishop of Augsburg, by Pope John XV in 999 is the first undoubted example of a papal canonization of a saint from outside Rome ( Some historians maintain that the first such canonization was that of Saint Swibert by Pope Leo III in 804 ).

The pope, as Bishop of Rome, may open a process and has the authority to waive the five year waiting period, as was done for Mother Teresa by Pope John Paul II, and for Lúcia Santos and for John Paul II himself by Pope Benedict XVI.

Its sponsors included John Arlott, Peggy Ashcroft, the Bishop of Birmingham Dr J. L. Wilson, Benjamin Britten, Viscount Chaplin, Michael de la Bédoyère, Bob Edwards, MP, Dame Edith Evans, A. S. Frere, Gerald Gardiner, QC, Victor Gollancz, Dr I. Grunfeld, E. M. Forster, Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron, Rev.

Trevor Huddleston, Sir Julian Huxley, Edward Hyams, the Bishop of Llandaff Dr Glyn Simon, Doris Lessing, Sir Compton Mackenzie, the Very Rev George McLeod, Miles Malleson, Denis Matthews, Sir Francis Meynell, Henry Moore, John Napper, Ben Nicholson, Sir Herbert Read, Flora Robson, Michael Tippett, the cartoonist ' Vicky ', Professor C. H. Waddington and Barbara Wootton.

* In 2005 Powell received the Bishop John T. Walker Distinguished Humanitarian Service Award for his contributions to Africa.

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.

They reject church leaders such as United Methodist Bishop Joseph Sprague of Chicago and Episcopal Bishop John Shelby Spong as apostate.

They tend to align with liberal secular humanists and one of their most outspoken advocates is retired US Bishop John Shelby Spong.

White's latest book, Religion Gone Bad: Hidden Dangers from the Christian Right ( 2007 ), is called " A consciousness-raising, must-read book " by Bishop John Shelby Spong.

Bishop Byrne, a private co-educational Catholic high school adjacent to St. Paul Church on Shelby Dr., opened in 1966.

# A highly controversial theory has been proposed by Bishop Spong in his book Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism ( ISBN 0-06-067518-7 ) which suggests that it refers to homosexual desires.

; Honorary Assistant bishop, Assisting Bishop, or Bishop Emeritus: These titles are usually applied to retired bishops who are given a general licence to minister as episcopal pastors under a diocesan's oversight.

Thus a retired archbishop can only be considered a bishop ( though it is possible to refer to ' Bishop John Smith, the former Archbishop of York '), a canon or archdeacon is a priest on retirement and does not hold any additional honorifics.

When the abbey was dissolved, he retired, and later became 1st Bishop of Gloucester.

The actor Robert Bray, who portrayed forest ranger Corey Stuart in CBS's Lassie from 1964 – 1968 and Simon Kane in ABC's Stagecoach West from 1960 – 1961, retired to Bishop, where he died in 1983 at the age of sixty-five.

Bishop Pilla retired in April 2006, but continues to participate.

Brian Hannon ( born October 5, 1936 ) is a retired Church of Ireland clergyman, who was Bishop of Clogher from 1986 to 2001.

Wright, New Testament scholar and retired Bishop of Durham ( Anglican ) also writes on this topic:

# Alfred Allen Paul Curtis ( 1897 – 1908 ) retired as Bishop emeritus of Wilmington ( bishop of Wilmington, 1886 – 1896 )

# James Francis Stafford ( 1976 – 1982 ) appointed Bishop of Memphis ( later appointed Archbishop of Denver ; later President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity ; created Cardinal ; later appointed Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary ; retired 2 June 2009 )

The first bishop of the new church, the Right Reverend Charles Doren, was consecrated by a retired bishop of the Episcopal Church, the Right Reverend Albert Arthur Chambers of the Diocese of Springfield, Illinois, along with Bishop Francisco Pagtakhan of the Philippine Independent Church as co-consecrator.

Bishop Zumárraga placed the city under interdict, and the Franciscans retired to Texcoco.

So great was the damage that Bishop Putta retired from the diocese and his appointed successor, Cwichelm, gave up the see “ because of its poverty ”.

Retired bishops and archbishops were also given titular sees, but the common practice now is to name them Bishop or Archbishop Emeritus of the see they retired from.

* The Rt Revd Anthony Russell, Honorary Fellow, retired Bishop of Ely

* The Rt Revd David Stancliffe, Fellow, retired Bishop of Salisbury

Leroy Matthiesen ( June 11, 1921 – March 22, 2010 ) was a theologian, political and social activist, and the retired Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Amarillo, Texas.

In 1949, Victor married Anne Bishop McKusick, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital ( retired ).

On June 30, 1981, Scanlan retired but continued to be active as Bishop Emeritus.

On August 16, 1947, the aged and sick Metropolitan Irineu retired from his position and Patriarch Nicodim named Vicar Bishop Justinian Vasluianul as locum tenens until a permanent successor was elected.

Recently retired Florida Bishop Stephen Hays Jecko was a leader.

In 1961 he became Suffragan Bishop of Pontefract and in 1968 he was made Bishop of Wakefield, a post in which he remained until he retired in 1976.