These exceptions, introduced with a good object, had grown into a widespread evil by the 12th century, virtually creating an imperium in imperio, and depriving the bishop of all authority over the chief centres of influence in his diocese.

As domestic prelates, prelates of the Roman Court, they had personal preeminence in every diocese of the world.

In the past, the Bishop of Durham, known as a prince bishop, had extensive viceregal powers within his northern diocese — the power to mint money, collect taxes and raise an army to defend against the Scots.

Until the council of Trent every bishop had full power to regulate the Breviary of his own diocese ; and this was acted upon almost everywhere.

When the secularization of church lands took place ( 1802 ) the diocese covered and had a population of 207, 000.

The revised Easter computation that had been part of the original 1923 agreement was never permanently implemented in any Orthodox diocese.

In the 13th century the town suffered much from the ravages of the Albigensian war and from the Inquisition, but by 1317 it had recovered sufficiently to be chosen by John XXII as the head of a diocese of which the basilica of St Théodard became the cathedral.

Thanksgiving services in the diocese of London were held at the end of April after false rumours that Mary had given birth to a son spread across Europe.

It had a diocese founded by Archbishop Adalbert of Magdeburg.

Wilfrid had been deposed from his see by Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury, who had carved up Wilfrid's diocese and appointed three bishops to govern the new sees.

Previously he had filled various important posts in the Curia and had been bishop of Padua since 1743 ; during his tenure as bishop of Padua he visited all the parishes in the diocese, the first bishop to do that for 50 years.

John convened a synod, and Formosus was ordered to return or be excommunicated on charges that he had aspired to the Bulgarian Archbishopric and the Holy See ; had opposed the emperor and had deserted his diocese without papal permission ; had despoiled the cloisters in Rome ; had performed the divine service in spite of the interdict ; and had " conspired with certain iniquitous men and women for the destruction of the papal see ".

Walter de Coutances, Archbishop of Rouen, was reluctant to sell the manor as it was one of the diocese's most profitable, and other lands belonging to the diocese had recently been damaged by war.

He had once quipped that he wanted his headstone to bear the words " I told you I was ill ." He was buried at St Thomas's cemetery but the Chichester diocese refused to allow this epitaph.

Morris, having passed his finals in the previous term, was entered as a pupil at the office of George Edmund Street, one of the leading English Gothic revival architects who had his headquarters in Oxford as architect to the diocese ; and on New Year's Day the first issue of the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine appeared.

Since much of that area had been only recently conquered by Russia from the Ottoman Empire, and a large number of Orthodox Greek settlers had been invited to settle in the region, the Imperial Government picked a renowned Greek scholar, Eugenios Voulgaris to preside over the new diocese.

After Willibrord's death the diocese suffered greatly from the incursions of the Frisians, and later on of the vikings.

During the time of Ulrich III von Nussdorf ( 1451 – 79 ) the diocese suffered its first great curtailment by the formation of the new Diocese of Vienna ( 1468 ).

The diocese suffered a troubled history following the decline of the Eastern Roman Empire in the 7th century.

The city was raided by the Persians in the early 7th century and following the conquest of the Holy Land by the Islamic armies in the 7th century, the diocese and city suffered tremendously and steadily declined in size and importance.

The Metropolitan of Moldavia, Irineu Mihălcescu, who had been elected to his position on November 29, 1939, was ill and in serious need of a young, energetic and capable person to help him rebuild the diocese, gravely affected by war damage.

** A Permanent Apostolic Administrator, in charge of a geographical area that for serious reasons cannot be made a diocese.

* Certain members of clergy felt there was ' a very serious lack of priests and deacons '; an absence of ' after-ordination ' training for clergy ; an ' Episcopal dismissiveness ' of ' the normal ecclesiastical awards system '; an ' Episcopal dismissiveness ' of monastic life within the diocese.

For these reasons rather than from any ecclesiastical scruples Foxe visited and resided in his new diocese ; and he occupied Norham Castle, which he fortified and defended against a Scottish raid in Perkin Warbeck's interests in 1497.

Thus a colonial bishop and colonial diocese was by nature quite a different thing from their counterparts back home.

John of Worcester also claims that at Wulfstan's consecration, Stigand, the archbishop of Canterbury extracted a promise from Ealdred that neither he nor his successors would lay claim to any jurisdiction over the diocese of Worcester.

He also repaired a large part of Beverley Minster in the diocese of York, adding a presbytery and an unusually splendid painted ceiling covering " all the upper part of the church from the choir to the tower ... intermingled with gold in various ways, and in a wonderful fashion ".

The Porvoo Common Statement ( 1996 ), agreed to by the Anglican churches of the British Isles and most of the Lutheran churches of Scandinavia and the Baltic, also stated that " the continuity signified in the consecration of a bishop to episcopal ministry cannot be divorced from the continuity of life and witness of the diocese to which he is called.

* Unction of the Sick article from the Sydney, Australia diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia

In the 10th century Troas is given as a suffragan of Cyzicus and distinct from the famous Troy ( Heinrich Gelzer, Ungedruckte ... Texte der Notitiae episcopatuum, 552 ; Georgii Cyprii descriptio orbis romani, 64 ); it is not known when the city was destroyed and the diocese disappeared.

In the twelfth century the practice of appointing ecclesiastics from outside Rome as cardinals began, with each of them being assigned a church in Rome as his titular church, or being linked with one of the suburbicarian dioceses, while still being incardinated in a diocese other than that of Rome.

A more immediate result of the Investiture struggle identified a proprietary right that adhered to sovereign territory, recognizing the right of kings to income from the territory of a vacant diocese and a basis for justifiable taxation.

The new diocese was established in the main from parts of the large Diocese of Rochester.

When in 1276 they became the souvereign of the town also, they moved their residence there, while the administration of the diocese was done from nearby Köslin ( Koszalin ).

The former summoned councils in Rome to anathematize and excommunicate the iconoclasts ( 730, 732 ); In 740 Leo retaliated by transferring Southern Italy and Illyricum from the papal diocese to that of the Patriarch of Constantinople.

While all other candidates from the Rome diocese were ordained in the Basilica of St. John Lateran, Pacelli was ordained a priest on Easter Sunday, 2 April 1899 alone in the private chapel of a family friend the Vice-Regent of Rome, Mgr Paolo Cassetta.

Facchinetti, whose family came from Crodo, in the diocese of Novara, northern Italy, was born in Bologna on 20 July 1519.

However, another reason could be thought of: that Stephen, as fiancé of a woman from the diocese of Passau, simply wanted to do honour to the then-major saint of Passau, Saint Stephen, after whom the Passau Cathedral is named up to today.

He converted more than 1, 000 Marcionites in his diocese, besides many Arians and Macedonians ; more than 200 copies of Tatian's Diatessaron he retired from the churches ; and he erected churches and supplied them with relics.

No bishop could leave his diocese without a written permission from his metropolitan, with a right of appeal to the Bishop of Arles.

Apart from its organisational function as the seat of the bishop, and the meeting place for the chapter of the diocese, the cathedral has a liturgical function in offering daily church services.

Cathedral buildings, especially those dating from the Medieval period, are frequently the grandest of churches in the diocese ( and country ).

: The word diocese is from the Greek term διοίκησις, meaning " administration ".

In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associated in a larger unit, the diocese ( Latin dioecesis, from the Greek term διοίκησις, meaning " administration ").