The most notable human rights abuses of this period were the brutal slaying of Bishop Juan José Gerardi two days after he had publicly presented a major Catholic Church sponsored human rights report known as REMHI, and the disappearance of Efraín Bámaca Velásquez, also known as Comandante Everardo, who, it was later revealed, was tortured and assassinated in 1993 without trial by Guatemalan Army officers on the payroll of the CIA.

On August 28, 1513, the Santa María de La Antigua del Darién mission was erected with Fray Juan de Quevedo as the first Catholic Bishop in the continental Americas.

Juan Alvarez de Toledo ( Bishop of Burgos ), another Imperial favorite was proposed, and he too failed, because of strong opposition from the faction of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, nephew of the late Pope Paul III and from the French.

When Juan Diego opened the cloak before Bishop Zumárraga on December 12th, the flowers fell to the floor, and in their place was the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe, miraculously imprinted on the fabric.

It relates how Juan Diego witnessed the apparitions, how he informed Bishop Zumárraga, the miracles of the tilmahtli and the roses, the apparition to Juan Bernardino ( Juan Diego's uncle ), and how the shrine to Guadalupe was instated.

Furthermore the fact that Bishop Zúmarraga who figures as a prominent character in the account has not left any mention of either Juan Diego or the apparition in his otherwise ample correspondence is a problem for the credibility of the accounts.

The problems with the historicity of Juan Diego was recognized as early as 1883 by Joaquín García Icazbalceta historian and the biographer of Archbishop Juan de Zumárraga, in private letter to the Mexican Bishop Icazbalceta concluded that there was no historical basis for the character of Juan Diego.

When Juan Diego unfolded his tilma before the Bishop roses cascaded from his tilma, and an icon of Our Lady of Guadalupe was miraculously impressed on the cloth, bringing the bishop to his knees.

His tutor was Juan Hurtado de Mendoza el Limpio and his confessor was the Dominican Alonso de Cusanza, who later became Bishop of Salamanca and León.

Puebla was a significant center of music composition in the 17th century, as the city had considerable wealth and for a time was presided over by Bishop Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, who was an enthusiastic patron of music.

Ríos Montt's brother Mario is a Catholic bishop, and in 1998 succeeded the assassinated Bishop Juan Gerardi as head of the human rights commission uncovering the truth of the disappearances associated with the military and his brother.

* Church of La Recolección, construction began on December 5, 1786, by Bishop Juan Félix de Villegas.

Son of IFI Bishop Juan P. Quijano.

In 2008, we were introduced to two new anthems of hope in the Symphonics ' " Commencement ", which blazed with vocals by Brendon " Bishop " Garrett, and poetry by John " Juan Blanco " White and the ever present " Dream Again ", which was produced by ManDog Productions.

On an episode aired August 14, Dan Bakkedahl interviewed Republican Congressperson Jack Kingston of Georgia and Arch Bishop Don Magic Juan on the subject.

The Cathedral, dedicated to San Juan Bosco is in Comodoro Rivadavia and the Bishop since 2005 is Virginio Domingo Bressanelli.

One of his greatest supporters was Bishop Juan Alejo de Arizmendi, who during the official farewell Mass, gave Power his episcopal ring as a reminder that he should never forget his countrymen.

He was born into one of the most influential aristocratic families of 15th century Spain the grandson of King Henriquez IV's crypto-Jewish Contador General Diego Arias de Ávila, deceased 1466, and Elvira González, deceased 1463, parents of three children, namely, Pedro, deceased 1476 while fighting took place in Madrid and the father of our Pedro, Juan, later Bishop of Segovia, deceased at Rome, Italy, 1497 and Isabel, deceased 1472, whose descendants always resident at Segovia, could be tracked afterward, in the 16th century in the Inquisition records and trials.

By this marriage, Arias Dávila family curried the favours again of Queen Isabela I and King Ferdinand II, in view of the close friendship of the Royal Couple with the " Cabrera " and " Bobadilla " families, in spite of Pedro Arias Dávila paternal uncle, the Bishop of Segovia, Juan Arias Dávila, a. k. a. Juan Arias de Ávila.

In 1744 Bishop Francisco Javier de Luna Victoria y Castro established the College of San Ignacio de Loyola and on June 3, 1749 founded La Real y Pontificia Universidad de San Javier.

Bishop Juan Ignacio Arrieta, Secretary of the Council, explained that the statement applied to the bishops ordained by Milingo as well as to more recent cases.

* Ignacio González Errazúriz, Bishop of San Bernardo, Chile

* Ignacio María de Orbegozo y Goicoechea, Bishop of Chiclayo, and former Prelate of Yauyos, Peru

* Juan Ignacio Larrea Holguín, Archbishop of Guayaquil, former Bishop of Quito, former Military Ordinary, former Auxiliary Bishop of Quito, Ecuador

* Angelo Sodano, Cardinal Bishop of Ostia and Albano, Dean of the College of Cardinals, former Cardinal Secretary of State

* Tarcisio Bertone, Cardinal Bishop of Frascati, Cardinal Secretary of State and Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church

The Popish Plot of 1678 sparked renewed interest in the Gunpowder Plot, resulting in a book by Thomas Barlow, Bishop of Lincoln, which refuted " a bold and groundless surmise that all this was a contrivance of Secretary Cecil ".

Chief Secretary Rafael Hui openly criticised pro-democracy Martin Lee and Bishop Zen for blocking the proposed changes.

It was finally established by the Vice-Chancellor John Fell, Dean of Christ Church, Bishop of Oxford, and Secretary to the Delegates.

The city was named after William Windom, who served as a United States Senator from Minnesota from 1881 – 1883, and was United States Secretary of the Treasury under presidents James Garfield, Chester Arthur and Benjamin Harrison, by Judson W. Bishop.

* The Right Reverend Dr Dhirendra Sahu, Lord Bishop of Eastern Himalaya ; General Secretary, National Council of Churches of India ; author, The Church of North India: a historical and systematic theological inquiry into an ecumenical ecclesiology ( 1994 ) and United & uniting: a story of the Church of North India ( 2001 )

Bishop Colenso's concern about the misleading information that was being provided to the Colonial Secretary in London by Shepstone and the Governor of Natal prompted him to champion the cause of the Zulus against Boer oppression and official encroachments.

Gray's Inn still employs a Preacher ; Michael Doe, former Bishop of Swindon and more recently General Secretary of the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, was appointed in 2011.

* Bishop Wilbur W. Hamilton-General Secretary of the General Board ( 2000 – present )

* Bishop Roy L. H. Winbush-Assistant Secretary of the General Board ( 1988 – present )

* Ralph Lingen, Secretary to the Education Department 1849-1870, by A. S. Bishop.

The Bishop of Exeter encouraged councils to ignore the High Court ruling, and Eric Pickles, the Communities and Local Government Secretary, told councils to openly defy the High Court as new legislation, the Localism Act 2011, allows councils to set their own agenda which would allow prayers to continue.

The General Board is in many respects the administrative body and comprises various departmental Commissions made up of the respective Secretary-Treasurer, the General Secretary of the AME, Church the General Treasurer and the members of the various Commissions and one Bishop as presiding officer with the other Bishops associating.

* James Bishop ( d. 1691 )— was Secretary, Lieutenant Governor and Deputy Governor of New Haven Jurisdiction.

David succeeded in removing oppositionist bishops, and combined two offices: courtier ’ s ( Mtzignobartukhutsesi, i. e. Chief Secretary ) and clerical ( Bishop of Tchqondidi ) into a single institution of Tchqondidel-Mtzignobartukhutsesi corresponding roughly to the post of prime minister.

Thomas Beckington ( also spelt Beckynton ; c. 1390 – 14 January 1465 ) was the Bishop of Bath and Wells and King's Secretary in medieval England.

The Bishop is assisted by a District Secretary and a District Treasurer.

The reserves in Upper Canada were managed by the Clergy Corporation which was chaired by the Anglican Bishop of Quebec and run day-to-day by a Secretary Receiver.

Bishop Brian Farrell, 66, a member of the Legionaries who was ordained a priest for the congregation in 1969, is a Dublin native and presently is the Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity ( from 1970 to 1976 he served as director of the Legionaries ' U. S. novitiate in Orange, Connecticut ).

Bishop Abel Muzorewa signs the Lancaster House Agreement seated next to British Foreign Secretary Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington | Lord Carrington.

Benelli received his episcopal consecration on the following 11 September from Cardinal Secretary of State Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, with Archbishop Pietro Sigismondi and Bishop Mario Longo Dorni serving as co-consecrators.

The 1662 act required that, according to their subject, books needed to receive the authorization, known as the imprimatur, of the Lord Chancellor, the Earl Marshall, a principal Secretary of State, the Archbishop of Canterbury or the Bishop of London.

* Committee on Priorities and Plans ( Secretary ) — Bishop George V. Murry, SJ