Initially growing up in Bithynia, raised by his maternal grandmother, at the age of seven he was under the guardianship of Eusebius of Nicomedia, the semi-Arian Christian Bishop of Nicomedia, and taught by Mardonius, a Gothic eunuch, whom Julian wrote warmly of later.

Stephen also raised Bishop Theodulf of Orléans to the rank of Archbishop, and had Louis release from their exile all political prisoners originally from Rome who had been held by the emperor resulting from the conflict that plagued the early part of Pope Leo III ’ s reign.

The festival was attended by Patroclus, Bishop of Arles, who had been raised to that See in place of Bishop Heros of Arles, who had been forcibly and unjustly removed by the imperial general Constantine.

In the decree of election, those who had chosen him as Bishop of Rome proclaimed Gregory VII " a devout man, a man mighty in human and divine knowledge, a distinguished lover of equity and justice, a man firm in adversity and temperate in prosperity, a man, according to the saying of the Apostle, of good behavior, blameless, modest, sober, chaste, given to hospitality, and one that ruleth well his own house ; a man from his childhood generously brought up in the bosom of this Mother Church, and for the merit of his life already raised to the archidiaconal dignity ".

In the center, just beyond the crossing, is the large, raised High Altar, behind which is a wrought iron enclosure containing the Gothic style tomb of the man who originally conceived and founded the cathedral, The Right Reverend Horatio Potter, D. D., LL. D., D. C. L., Bishop of New York.

Despite his bloodline in that age when people died young and younger, the orphaned Conrad grew up poor by the standards of the nobility and was raised by Burchard, Bishop of Worms.

When the persecution had begun to subside, Dionysius was raised to the office of Bishop of Rome.

Another point calling the map's authenticity into question was raised at the 1966 Conference: that one caption referred to Bishop Eirik of Greenland " and neighboring regions " ( in Latin, " regionumque finitimarum "), a title known previously from the work of religious scholar Luka Jelic ( 1863 – 1922 ).

Both sides appealed to Rome, and Richard journeyed to Rome with Reginald fitz Jocelin, who had recently been elected Bishop of Bath, to rebut the charges of simony, illegitimate birth, and swearing an oath to the king that had been raised.

He was raised to the episcopate as Bishop of Clogher in 1986.

Finally the Cardinal Bishop of Ostia said: God, who willed your Apostle Peter to hold first place in the inner fellowship of the apostles, that universal Christianity overcome evil, look propitiously we ask on this your servant, __, who from a humble position has suddenly been been enthroned with the apostles on this same principal sublimity, that just as he has been raised to this exalted dignity, so may he likewise merit to accumulate virtue ; in bearing the burden of the universal church, help him, make him worthy and for thee who are blessed may merits replace vices.

* Kenny Bishop, born and raised in Richmond

# Henry, Bishop of Winchester b. 1101-d. 1171 oblate child raised at Cherite sur Loire ( Cluny Abbey ) 1103

The central tower was at last raised by Bishop Hamo de Hythe in 1343, thus essentially completing the cathedral.

With the help of an entrepreneurial Californian dentist, Bishop raised £ 2. 5 million to lead the management buy-out, and was subsequently appointed chairman: " I had to borrow the money from an American citizen.

Bourbon and the Bishop of Beauvais raised a new army at Toulouse, in part financed by the Pope whose nephew had been captured by Derby the previous year, while John of Normandy brought with him a substantial number of nobles from the north including such dignitaries as the Eudes IV, Duke of Burgundy, Raoul II of Brienne, Count of Eu the Constable of France, both Marshals and the Master of Crossbowmen.

Bishop Asbury Cottage ( incorrectly named as " Bishop Ashbury's Cottage " on Ordnance Survey maps ), was where Francis Asbury, the first American Methodist Bishop, was raised.

Bishop Thomas St. Leger 1240 – 1320 was the Archdeacon of Kells around 1275 and is said to have raised money for the Crusades.

In 1944, Bishop S. Arthur Huston reopened discussions with the parish's bankers in St. Louis, Missouri ; over the next three years, more funds were raised, and in 1947 the mortgage was paid off.

After announcing his intention to elevate Father Joos to the Cardinalate, Pope John Paul also appointed him as Titular Bishop of Ypres, and he was consecrated on 7 October 2003, days before the Consistory in which he was raised to the College of Cardinals.

The famous Bishop Alexander was raised in Hvalvík, in a place called Frammi við Kráir.

Encountering both insufficient endowment and trouble from the Wars of the Roses ( for their charter was from the deposed Lancastrian ), the College seems only to have survived thanks to tireless efforts by its fellows in gaining recognition of the college's validity and the munificence of a second Bishop of Lincoln, Thomas Rotherham.

Bishop McTyeire was named chairman of the Board of Trust for life by Vanderbilt as a stipulation of his endowment.

In 1380 his great-grandson, also Robert de Lisle, sold the manor along with some land at Barford St. Michael for £ 1, 000 to William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester, who made them part of his endowment for the foundation of New College, Oxford.

William Longchamp, Bishop of Ely and the King's Chancellor, made a show of bidding £ to remain as Chancellor.

James Montague, the Bishop of Bath and Wells from 1608 – 1616, paid £ 1, 000 for a new nave roof of timber lath construction ; according to the inscription on his tomb, this was prompted after seeking shelter in the roofless nave during a thunderstorm.

By the time of his fourth appearance at the Royal Albert Hall on February 6, 1981, Larry was renting a small room for £ 7 a week next to both the Bunch of Carrots pub and the Chapel Lane Recording studio in Hampton Bishop after the break up of his first marriage.

Between 1647 and 1650 Haselrig and his son brought a large amount of property in the north east which included the manors of Bishop # s Auckland, Middleham, Easingwoodborough and Wolsingham at a total cost of over £ 22, 500.

Elm Grove was a 16th-century house that had been the home of the Bishop of Durham ; Perceval paid £ 7, 500 for it in 1808 ( borrowing from his brother Lord Arden and the trustees of Jane ’ s dowry ) and the Perceval family ’ s long association with Ealing began.

Through the efforts of Bishop Gardiner on his return to England, this office he likewise discharged to Queen Mary with a pension of £ 20 a year, and then to Elizabeth — a testimony to his tact and caution in those changeful times.

In 1770 Dr Matthias Mawson, former Master and Bishop of Ely, bequeathed £ 3000 to defray the costs of demolishing and rebuilding the college but this was not enough.

Henry I was presented with a wreath of black sable by the Bishop of Lincoln, for no less than £ 100, a considerable sum at the time.

At that time, the village's vicarage and living was in the gift of the Bishop of Carlisle, and worth £ 500 per year.

Christ Church ( the Church of England parish church ) was built to a design of Ewan Christian and constructed by the Mining Company at a cost of £ 950 and was consecrated by the Bishop of Sodor and Man, Lord Auckland, on 27 May 1856.

In 2005 a new extension to the church, the " Brewer Building ", built at a cost of £ 1. 7m was opened by the Bishop of Southwark.

The cost was £ 1, 400, and Hughes was later to become Bishop of St Asaph.

In October 2008, under a deal agreed in 1999 as part of the package for BMI to join the Star Alliance, Bishop agreed to sell his 50 % stake to Lufthansa for an undisclosed sum, though reports suggested it was about £ 318m.

He considered that the £ 100, 000 paid to build St Eunan's College and the Cathedral of St. Eunan and St Columba in Letterkenny was too great a burden for its 2, 000 inhabitants, and found that the CDB head Bishop O ' Donnell had indirectly applied grants towards the buildings.

His father, by then Bishop of Brechin, furnished him with £ 20, a substantial sum, though he notes that the rate at which he could buy readily exchangeable gold coins was poor — he had to pay 6s for every gold dollar, and £ 5 for a doubloon.

Due to jealousy they kept moving him to poor churches, with a handful of people only to surprise them all by filling them to standing room only in a very short time, so they would move him again, and again, due to his popularity, and they had no real evidence against him, allegations made against him were published but never retracted, finally they had no choice they gave him Bristol one of the poorest churches in the land, they made him Bishop of Bristol, on arrival he found people starving, and a congregation of 12, the people walked for miles to listen to him he gave them hope, the cathedral was full with standing room only, his family fed the poor with soup going without themselves to feed others, then after months of struggling to help he was the benifactor of the Lottery £ 20, 000.

Wills Physics Laboratory built by George in memory of his brother which cost some £ 200, 000 and the building of Wills Hall, a hall of residence for the University in Stoke Bishop.

In 1461 Bishop Kennedy of St. Andrews built the St Salvator, a great ship for trade and for war purposes which cost £ 10, 000.

The manor is held of the Bishop of Bath & Wells of the King, service unknown, annual value £ 20.

The structure of the cathedral is primarily in the Norman style, having been constructed at the behest of Bishop Herbert de Losinga who had bought the bishopric for £ 1, 900.

The engagement ring was bought for £ 27 10s 0d in Edinburgh on 29 March and the wedding took place on 4 June 1828 in St James's Church, Piccadilly, the Bishop of London William Howley officiated.