Wilfrid, chief advocate for the Roman position, later became Bishop of Northumbria, while Colmán and the Ionan supporters who did not change their practices withdrew to Iona.

In 1975, he resigned as co-pastor of the Holy Temple and withdrew his membership in COGIC because he disagreed with Bishop J. O.

As a result this group withdrew and formed The Church of God under the leadership of Bishop James C. Nabors.

Under Williams ' leadership, about 70 churches withdrew from that organization to form the Bible Way Church, citing the autocratic leadership of COOLJC leader and founder, Bishop Robert C. Lawson.

An extremely ambiguous account of events was subsequently sent from Inverness to King Edward by Bishop Cheyne on 25 August, relates that after some discussion, Moray and his rebel-army withdrew into very great stronghold of bog and wood no horseman could be of service.

After coming under fire for introducing this amendment, Bishop withdrew it before the continuing budget resolution was voted on.

He successfully petitioned the Holy See to separate Western Pennsylvania into a new diocese, and the Diocese of Pittsburgh was established in 1836 ; Kenrick was initially considered for the new diocese as well as for Coadjutor Bishop of New York, but withdrew his candidacy.

The Dutch fleet under admiral Michiel de Ruyter had already defeated the Anglo-French fleet at the Battle of Solebay and on 28 August 1672 the German Bishop of Münster, Bernhard von Galen, withdrew from the siege of Groningen, is still celebrated annually in Groningen.

However, upon hearing of the letter to the Patriarch of Constantinople, and of Basil's subsequent refusal to withdraw it, Patriarch Alexei withdrew the offer of an audience, and the Holy Synod retired Bishop Basil pending an investigation, appointing in Basil's stead Archbishop Innokenty as temporary administrator of the diocese.

Not willing to do so, Father Wedgwood and most of the Old Catholic Church in England found themselves without a Bishop as they withdrew from Archbishop Mathew's leadership.

The bishops then withdrew and Bishop Seabury became the first bishop to preside over a separate House of Bishops.

Bishop College initially offered him a scholarship, but then withdrew it ( the school had yet to be desegregated ).

" This title hails back to England's separation from the See of Rome, when King Henry, as supreme head of the newly independent church, took over all of the monasteries, mainly for their possessions, except for St. Benet, which he spared because the abbot and his monks possessed no wealth, and lived like simple beggars, disposing the incumbent Bishop of Norwich and seating the abbot in his place, thus the dual title still held to this day.

Constance was a missionary bishopric in newly converted lands, and did not look back on late Roman church history ( unlike the Raetian bishopric of Chur, established 451 ) and Basel, which was an episcopal seat from 740, and which continued the line of Bishops of Augusta Raurica, see Bishop of Basel.

# Siegfried ( died 24 October 1184 ), Bishop of Brandenburg from 1173 – 1180, Prince-Archbishop of Bremen, the first ranked prince, from 1180 – 1184

In 1260 Pope Alexander IV made him Bishop of Regensburg, an office from which he resigned after three years.

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

Very little documentary evidence is available from Ealdred's time as Bishop of Worcester.

Bishop Asser claimed that the ' pagans ' agreed to vacate the realm and made good their promise ; and, indeed, the Viking army did withdraw from Reading in the autumn of 871 to take up winter quarters in Mercian London.

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.

Absalon or Axel ( – 21 March 1201 ) was a Danish archbishop and statesman, who was the Bishop of Roskilde from 1158 to 1192 and Archbishop of Lund from 1178 until his death.

It was from St. Alexander of Alexandria, Bishop of Alexandria, 312 – 328, himself an Origenist, that St Athanasius received his main instruction.

The spelling and names in both the 1609 – 1610 Douay Old Testament ( and in the 1582 Rheims New Testament ) and the 1749 revision by Bishop Challoner ( the edition currently in print used by many Catholics, and the source of traditional Catholic spellings in English ) and in the Septuagint ( an ancient translation of the Old Testament in to Greek, which is widely used by the Eastern Orthodox instead of the Masoretic text ) differ from those spellings and names used in modern editions which are derived from the Hebrew Masoretic text.

Although the former bishop is released from his duties, he continues to hold the Aaronic priesthood office of Bishop.

In 2002, the general convention of the Pentecostal Church of God came to a consensus to change the title of their overseer from General Superintendent to Bishop.

He found an asylum in England, where he was made a prebendary of Canterbury, received a pension from King Edward VI's privy purse, and composed his capital work, the Tragoedie or Dialoge of the unjuste usurped primacie of the Bishop of Rome.

Constantine's foundation gave prestige to the Bishop of Constantinople, who eventually came to be known as the Ecumenical Patriarch, a situation that contributed to the Great Schism that divided Western Catholicism from Eastern Orthodoxy from 1054 onwards.

* Nathan Bishop, singer-songwriter from Celtae.

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 ).

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.

Bishop Christian continued his mission in Sambia ( Samland ), where from 1233 to 1239 he was held captive by pagan Prussians, and freed in trade for five other hostages who then in turn were released for a ransom of 800 Marks, granted to him by Pope Gregory IX.

This concept had been approved at the Medellín conference by Bishop Ricard Durand, president of the Commission about Poverty.

Bishop William T. Manning had announced a $ 10 million capital campaign to raise money for this project at a major press conference ; the New York campaign committee was headed by Franklin D. Roosevelt.

At the 1961 conference, a 32-year old Russian Orthodox Bishop named Aleksey Ridiger was sent as delegate to the assembly, and then appointed to the WCC's central committee.

A controversial incident occurred during the conference when Bishop Emmanuel Chukwuma of Enugu, Nigeria attempted to exorcise the " homosexual demons " from the Reverend Richard Kirker, leader of the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement, who was passing out leaflets.

Bishop Wright and other conference delegates left the meeting and resumed the session elsewhere.

Before the breakup of Yugoslavia began in 1991, she invited the Orthodox Bishop Sava and the Mufti of Belgrade, along with the Yugoslav Minister for Religious Affairs to attend a conference in Moscow that was hosted by Mikhail Gorbachev.

Bishop Wright and other conference delegates left the meeting and resumed the session elsewhere.

Each national conference can send two delegates, usually its Bishop or General Superintendent and its Missions Director.

The current Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams was an enthusiastic supporter when he was Bishop of Monmouth and Archbishop of Wales and has carried on his support into his new role, opening an Alpha conference and accepting an invitation to speak at an Alpha supper in London in 2004.

The parties represented during the conference were: the British Government, the Patriotic Front led by Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo, ZAPU ( Zimbabwe African Peoples Union ) and ZANU ( Zimbabwe African National Union ) and the Zimbabwe Rhodesia government, represented by Bishop Abel Muzorewa and Ian Smith.

However, rumours began to spread that the Bishop of Oxford would be attending the conference on the following Saturday.

On 17 September 2007, Copeland publicly confirmed an intention to co-lead a new political party with Richard Lewis, after Bishop Brian Tamaki, founder of the Destiny New Zealand party, had announced it at a press conference without Copeland's knowledge.

In 1956, Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill, who graduated from ETS in 1914, spoke out at a press conference in favor of racial integration for the whole church, citing it as being " fundamental to the heart of the Gospel.

Bishop Crowther was on the island of Madeira in the Atlantic Ocean west of Morocco for a conference.

In 1798, he was appointed to the Baltimore conference, and in 1800 he went with Bishop Asbury and Bishop Richard Whatcoat to the Western Conference, which met that year at Bethel, Kentucky.

In September Boyd was appointed one of Bishop John Lesley ' colleagues for the conference to be held at York, and while there is accused of having " practised to steale away " Mary secretly.

While driving to a conference on Canon Law in January 1984, Bishop Fulcher died when his car crashed off US-41 at Gobbler's Knob north of Rockville.

Bishop C. F. Nath presently holds the MCI conference as moderator. Madhukant Masih is the secetery of MCI conference. Rev. P. K. Das Voice Moderator, Dr. Sandeep Patonda Treasurer MCI, Vikal Pravin Rao, Rakesh Kumar, Mr. Yogesh Lal Kalyan Masih & Rajneesh Ram are Exicative member of conference 2010-2011-2012.

In late August in an emergency conference in The Gambia, Sawyer was voted interim president and Bishop Roland Diggs was voted vice-president by a delegation of 35 Liberians representing seven political parties and eleven interest groups gathered for that purpose.

In AD 664 a conference was held at Whitby Abbey ( known as the Whitby Synod ) to decide the matter ; Saint Wilfrid was an advocate for the Roman rites and Bishop Colmán for the Irish rites.