Apparently, realising his death was near, Constantius had himself baptised by Euzoius, the Semi-Arian bishop of Antioch, and then declared that Julian was his rightful successor.

The city was granted a charter in 1274 by Rudolf I of Habsburg, King of Germany, who declared the city an Imperial Free City in 1291 ; nevertheless the bishop of Speyer, a major landowner in the district, seized the city in 1324.

An early example of the use of the word " nation " ( in conjunction with language and territory ) was provided in 968 by Liutprand ( the bishop of Cremona ) who, while confronting the Byzantine emperor, Nicephorus II, on behalf of his patron Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, declared:

Sergius ceased to act as bishop of Caere with the death of Formosus in 896, as all of the ordinations conferred by Formosus were declared null and void, although Formosus ’ ordination of Sergius was subsequently reconfirmed by Theodore II.

In spite of the strong representations of the Conversio Bagoariorum et Carantanorum, written in 871 to influence the pope, though not avowing this purpose, Rome declared emphatically for Methodius, and sent a bishop, Paul of Ancons, to reinstate him and punish his enemies, after which both parties were commanded to appear in Rome with the legate.

* Canon 19 declared excommunication for those who tried to tax churches and clergy without the consent of the bishop.

While theology of the Arians was declared a heresy at the First Council of Nicea in 325 AD, the missionary work of the bishop Ulfilas converted the pagan Goths to Arian Christianity in the 4th Century.

Soon the city declared itself officially Protestant, pictures were removed from the churches, and the bishop temporarily moved to Meersburg, a small town across the lake.

For instance, during the Williamson affair, Monsignor Robert Wister publicly declared that the negationist comments made by the controversial SSPX bishop might be " offensive and erroneous " but " not a heresy " and " not an excommunicable offense ", calling Williamson " not a heretic, but ... a liar ".

In 1373 he declared in convocation that he would not contribute to a subsidy until the evils from which the church suffered were removed ; in 1375 he incurred the displeasure of the king by publishing a papal bull against the Florentines ; and in 1377 his decided action during the quarrel between John of Gaunt and William of Wykeham ended in a temporary triumph for the bishop.

In 1223 the Albigenses are declared to be the local Bougres, and in the same period mention is made of the " Pope of the Albigenses who resided within the confines of Bulgaria " ( see also Nicetas, Bogomil bishop ).

In November 1638, the General Assembly in Glasgow, the first to meet for twenty years, not only declared the Prayer Book unlawful, but went on to abolish the office of bishop itself.

The bishop remained in power until 1798 when Napoleon's troops invaded the Valais and declared a Revolutionary République du Valais ( March 16 ) which was swiftly incorporated ( May 1 ) into the Helvetic Republic until 1802 when it became the separate Rhodanic Republic.

The three Dutch Old Catholic bishops declared themselves ready to consecrate a " non-infallibilist " bishop for Bavaria, if it were desired.

This is implied by Dionysius, bishop of Alexandria in the mid-3rd century, who stated that " at no time other than the spring equinox is it legitimate to celebrate Easter " ( Eusebius, Church History 7. 20 ); and by Anatolius of Alexandria ( quoted in Eusebius, Church History 7. 32 ) who declared it a " great mistake " to set the Paschal lunar month when the sun is in the twelfth sign of the zodiac.

On 6 April 1027, John held a Lateran synod in which he declared for the Patriarch of Aquileia against the Patriarch of Grado, giving its bishop, Poppo of Aquileia, the patriarchal dignity and putting the bishop of Grado under his jurisdiction.

After the local bishop had declared that ( 1 ) the visions of the three children are credible and ( 2 ) the veneration of the Blessed Virgin is permitted, the Portuguese bishops approved and declared the genuine supernatural nature of the event.

In 1851, the local bishop of Grenoble declared the apparition to be worthy of belief, the first step in approval by the Catholic Church.

On one famous occasion, he declared, " I have heard senator denounce the Catholic Church and the Pope of Rome and the cardinal and the bishop and the priest and the nun until I am sick and tired of it, as a Democrat.

The bishop of Augsburg declared he must be inspired by the Holy Spirit, and Emperor Charles V now intended to make him commander-in-chief in the next war against the Turks.

In 1988, the Holy See declared that Williamson had incurred automatic excommunication latae sententiae, i. e. as a direct and immediate consequence of his unauthorized consecration as a bishop by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.

The pope then declared William's election canonical, and sent him to Cardinal Berenger Fredoli, bishop of Tusculum, in order to be consecrated.

The city remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church, Troadensis ; the seat is vacant following the resignation of the last bishop in 1971.

The rule remains that, if the person elected pope is not yet a bishop, he is consecrated by the Dean of the College of Cardinals, the Cardinal bishop of Ostia.

There still remains to be mentioned Mommsen's peculiar view that Marcellus was not really a bishop, but a simple Roman presbyter to whom was committed the ecclesiastical administration during the latter part of the period of vacancy of the papal chair.

Maybe raided from 711 to 739 by the Arabs, the bishopric of Iria was incorporated into the Kingdom of Asturias c. 750 ; some tens of years later, at some point between 818 and 842, bishop Theodemar of Iria ( d. 847 ), found some remains which were attributed to Saint James the Greater, during the reign of Alfonso II of Asturias.

Oswald's head was interred in Durham Cathedral together with the remains of Cuthbert of Lindisfarne ( a saint with whom Oswald became posthumously associated, although the two were not associated in life ; Cuthbert became bishop of Lindisfarne more than forty years after Oswald's death ) and other valuables in a quickly made coffin, where it is generally believed to remain, although there are at least four other claimed heads of Oswald in continental Europe.

As a consequence of its diagonal movement, each bishop always remains on either the white or black squares, and so it is also common to refer to them as light-squared or dark-squared bishops.

It was in this year that some Huguenots destroyed the tomb and remains of Saint Irenaeus ( d. 202 ), an early Church father and bishop who was a disciple of Polycarp.

Nicaea remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church, Nicaenus ; the seat has been vacant since the death of its last bishop in 1976.

Unsurprisingly calling Rosamund a harlot, the bishop ordered her remains removed from the church: instead, she was to be buried outside the church ' with the rest, that the Christian religion may not grow into contempt, and that other women, warned by her example, may abstain from illicit and adulterous intercourse '.

Yet the choir, side chapels, sacristry, and courtyard remain intact, and the cathedral, although no longer the seat of a bishop or archbishop, remains the primary place of worship for the Roman Catholic population of the city, and is a major tourist attraction.

When an ecumenical council or a high-ranking bishop, such as a patriarch or other primate, releases an ecclesiastical province from the authority of that bishop while the newly independent church remains in full communion with the hierarchy to which it then ceases to belong, the council or primate is granting autocephaly.

Antiquities include Breckness House, erected in 1633 by George Graham, bishop of Orkney at the west entrance of Hoy Sound ; and an ancient cemetery, with ruined church, and remains of a monastery, between Breckness House and Stromness town.

The main difference between a pontifical and an ordinary High Mass is that the bishop remains at his throne almost all the time until the offertory.

From here one descends into the " Platonica ", a construction at the rear of the basilica that was long believed to have been the temporary resting place for Peter and Paul, but was in fact ( as proved by excavation ) a tomb for the martyr Quirinus, bishop of Sescia in Pannonia, whose remains were brought here in the 5th century.

He bequeathed his library to his successors as bishop, and it remains at Hartlebury Castle, but its fate remains uncertain, now that the castle has ceased to be used as the bishop's residence.

The speech of Flavian remains, concluding with this appeal to the bishop of Dorylaeum: " Let your reverence condescend to visit him and argue with him about the true faith, and if he shall be found in very truth to err, then he shall be called to our holy assembly, and shall answer for himself.

The hymn remains in regular use in the Catholic Church in the Office of Readings found in the Liturgy of the Hours, and in thanksgiving to God for a special blessing such as the election of a pope, the consecration of a bishop, the canonization of a saint, a religious profession, the publication of a treaty of peace, a royal coronation, etc.

The remains of the bishop and the soldier are in urns under the altar.

Pope Leo I describes Pulcheria's contributions to the church in a letter to her, "... the entire Roman Church is most grateful to you for all the works of your faith, whether having assisted envoys in every way with devoted affection and for having brought back the Catholic bishops who were ejected from their churches by an unjust sentence, or for having brought back with fitting honor to the church he governed so well the remains of Flavian of holy memory, an innocent and Catholic bishop.

No historical source remains that would confirm the existence of a bishop named Henry in Finland.

The first 13th century bishop is said to have been Thomas, and his predecessor remains unknown.