The establishment of the bishopric of Konstanz cannot be dated exactly and was possibly undertaken by Columbanus himself ( before 612 ).

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.

After his death, the king was buried in the church which he had built ; his original tomb has been lost, while his alleged remains are preserved in the shrine where he was reburied after being declared a saint ; his saintliness, however, was never very widely acknowledged outside the bishopric of Liège where he may still be venerated by tradition.

Ealdred helped Sweyn not only because Ealdred was a supporter of Earl Godwin's family but because Sweyn's earldom was close to his bishopric.

Although Ealdred gave up the bishopric, the appointment of Wulfstan was one that allowed Ealdred to continue his considerable influence on the see of Worcester.

Although its function is unknown, it has been often suggested that the jewel was one of the æstels — pointers for reading — that Alfred ordered sent to every bishopric accompanying a copy of his translation of the Pastoral Care.

While Alexander had been priming Athanasius to assume the bishopric after his death, it is said, he was not unanimously supported, and questions of his age ( the minimum age to become a bishop was thirty, and questions remain to this day whether he was yet that old ).

It was established in 1186 as the bishopric of Livonia at Üxküll, then after moving to Riga it became the bishopric of Riga in 1202 and was elevated to an archbishopric in 1255.

There were two more nominal bishops, but on the petition of the latter of these, the electoral prince John George, the secularisation of the bishopric was undertaken and finally accomplished, in spite of legal proceedings to reassert the imperial immediacy of the prince-bishopric within the Empire and so to likewise preserve the diocese, which dragged on into the seventeenth century.

In about 1225, during a lull in the Albigensian Crusade, the bishopric of Razes was added.

Distantly related to the imperial family of Constantine, he owed his progression from a less significant Levantine bishopric to the most important episcopal see to his influence at court, and the great power he wielded in the Church was derived from that source.

The bishopric at Kirkjubøur, south of Tórshavn, where remains of the cathedral may be seen, was also abolished.

It was probably Algarotti who introduced his friend Tiepolo to Karl Philipp von Greifenclau zu Vollraths where he painted his masterwork on the ceiling of the main hall of the bishopric residence.

The Emperor Diocletian is said to have made Florentia the seat of a bishopric around the beginning of the 4th century AD, but this seems improbable as Diocletian was a notable persecutor of Christians.

In 1075 the bishopric of Sherborne was transferred to Old Sarum, so Sherborne remained an abbey church but was no longer a cathedral.

Two years after his consecration he was transferred to the bishopric of Worcester on 6 March 1364.

The diocese was established on 18 September 1983, when the district of Sunnmøre was transferred from Bjørgvin bishopric in the south, and the Romsdal and Nordmøre districts from Nidaros bishopric in the north to form the new one.

In 1780, the bishop of Tréguier was transferred to the bishopric of Chartres.

In 1522 Beaton was transferred to St. Andrews bishopric, vacant by the death of Archbishop Forman.

In 1427 he transferred the Catholic bishopric from Volodymyr-Volynskyi to Luchesk.

* For the history of the bishopric of Maguelonne, see Bishopric of Montpellier as the episcopal see was transferred there in 1536

The saint's relics and the bishopric were subsequently transferred to Durham.

After the creation of the bishopric of Miranda do Douro, the local Church of São Martinho fell within the authority of that church, until the diocese was extinguished and the clergy transferred to the Sé in Bragnaça.

In the following year the bishopric of Roselle was transferred to Grosseto.

The bishopric was to be short-lived, however, as it was transferred to Crediton in 1042 AD.

The bishopric was transferred to the nearby Norman fortress-city of Aversa in 1030.

The bishopric had been transferred from Iria Flavia to Compostela as recently as 1095.

# The Boldon Buke — a survey of the bishopric of Durham a century later than Domesday.

After holding the rich living of Stanhope, Durham, from 1820, and the Deanery of Chester from 1828, he was consecrated Bishop of Exeter in 1831, holding with the see a residentiary canonry at Durham which he secured permission to hold along with his bishopric, one of the last cases of the benefice in commendam by which medieval and later bishops had often profited.

When he was offered the bishopric in Exeter he realised that the stipend (£ 3, 000 ) was not enough to support his family, so he asked to retain his parish of Stanford-le-Hope, in Durham ( as a non-resident ), which would be worth an additional £ 4, 000 a year.

In 1099 he was rewarded with the bishopric of Durham.

Burgess had no Welsh connections ; he was born in England in 1756 and, after Winchester and Oxford, he had short stays in Salisbury and Durham before being appointed to his first bishopric in Wales in 1803.

Meantime the bishopric had been merged in that of Lindisfarne, which latter see was removed to Chester-le-Street in 883, and thence to Durham in 995.

The ( arch ) bishopric of Constantinople has had a continuous history since the founding of the city in 330 AD by Constantine the Great.

It appears that the city was the seat of an Assyrian Church of the East Christian bishopric as late as the 8th century AD.

Lisbon has been the seat of a bishopric since the 4th century AD ( see Patriarch of Lisbon ).

In AD 604 The bishopric and cathedral were established.

Durrës became a Christian city quite early on ; its bishopric was created around AD 58 and was raised to the status of an archbishopric in 449.

The toponym, Casale Cupersanem, is known from the 5th century AD and was a bishopric seat from the 7th century.

In the early 4th century, the Christian Eparchy or bishopric of Pitiunt ( ბიჭვინთა Bichvinta in Georgian ) was established in this kingdom, as in another eastern Georgian kingdom of Iberia Christianity was declared as an official religion of the kingdom in 319 AD.

In 425 AD the town became the centre of a bishopric, attested by the remains of foundations of a few religious buildings.

Devon formed part of the bishopric of Sherborne ( Dorset ) after this was set up in 705 AD.

The earliest written history of Ramsbury can be traced from the Saxon era when the bishopric of Ramsbury was created in 909 AD.

The bishopric of Ramsbury was created in AD 909 as part of a division of the two West Saxon bishoprics into five smaller ones.

During the Byzantine period, the city became a bishopric, although in the 3rd century AD, its convenient harbor had fallen under the threat of pirates once again.

In the 5th century AD Tuscania became one of the first bishopric seat in Italy, maintaining it until 1653.

The steady growth of the Christian community in Dyrrhachium ( the Roman name for Epidamnus ) led to the creation of a local bishopric in 58 AD.

Altinum became the seat of a bishopric by at least the 5th century AD, the first bishop being Heliodorus of Altino.