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

When a vacancy occurred, the bishop of the diocese chose the abbot out of the monks of the convent, but the right of election was transferred by jurisdiction to the monks themselves, reserving to the bishop the confirmation of the election and the benediction of the new abbot.

In the late 4th century there was a deep conflict in the diocese of Milan between the Catholics and Arians.

He studied theology and canon law, and after acting as parish priest in his native diocese for twelve years was sent by the pope to Canada as a bishop's chaplain.

How the diocese of Worcester was administered when Ealdred was abroad is unclear, although it appears that Wulfstan, the prior of the cathedral chapter, performed the religious duties in the diocese.

Ealdred did much to restore discipline in the monasteries and churches under his authority, and was liberal with gifts to the churches of his diocese.

He was born in the latter part of the 12th century at Bennes, a village between Ollé and Chauffours in the diocese of Chartres.

The Bishop of Maidstone was previously a second actual suffragan bishop working in the diocese, until it was decided at the diocesan synod of November 2010 that a new bishop will not be appointed.

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.

The see was restored as a diocese of the Catholic Church in 1918 and raised into an archdiocese in 1923.

The Bishopric of Brandenburg was a Roman Catholic diocese established by Otto the Great in 948, including the territory between the Elbe on the west, the Oder on the east, and the Schwarze Elster on the south, and taking in the Uckermark to the north.

The diocese was originally a suffragan of Mainz, but in 968 it came under the archiepiscopal jurisdiction of Magdeburg.

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 1118, Trois-Fontaines Abbey was founded in the diocese of Châlons ; in 1119, Fontenay Abbey in the Diocese of Autun and in 1121, Foigny Abbey near Vervins, in the diocese of Laon.

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.

This was inaugurated by Montalembert, but its literary advocates were chiefly Dom Gueranger, a learned Benedictine monk, abbot of Solesmes, and Louis François Veuillot ( 1813 – 1883 ) of the Univers ; and it succeeded in suppressing them everywhere, the last diocese to surrender being Orleans in 1875.

In Scotland the only one which has survived the convulsions of the 16th century is Aberdeen Breviary, a Scottish form of the Sarum Office ( the Sarum Rite was much favoured in Scotland as a kind of protest against the jurisdiction claimed by the diocese of York ), revised by William Elphinstone ( bishop 1483 – 1514 ), and printed at Edinburgh by Walter Chapman and Andrew Myllar in 1509 – 1510.

The term was applied in this sense as early as the ninth century to the priests of the tituli ( parishes ) of the diocese of Rome.

The election of the pope was not always reserved to the cardinals ; the pope was originally elected by the clergy and the people of the diocese of Rome.

Later he established the first diocese in Germany north of the old Roman Limes at the Frankish fortified settlement of Büraburg, on a prominent hill facing the town across the Eder River.

The then Bishop of Rochester, the Right Revd Dr Thomas Legh Claughton, elected to take the northern division of his old diocese and on 12 June 1877 was enthroned first Bishop of St Albans, a position he held until 1890.

F. Núñez de la Vega, bishop of Chiapa, says, in the preface to his Synodal Constitutions, that in the visit which he made to his diocese towards the end of the last century the late 1600s, he found many ancient calendars of the Chiapanese, and an old manuscript in the language of that country, made by the Indians themselves, in which it was said, according to their ancient tradition, that a certain person named Votan was present at that great building, which was made by order of his uncle, in order to mount up to heaven ; that then every people was given its language, and that Votan himself was charged by God to make the division of the lands of Anahuac.

Though the town of Ratzeburg was part of the Ratzeburg diocese, the town itself was not within the territory of the Prince-Bishopric of Ratzeburg, but formed a part of the old Duchy of Saxony and became part of its dynastic partition of Saxe-Lauenburg around 1296, remaining with this duchy under altering dynasties until 1876.

Consequently by the 11th century, a hierarchy of minsters became apparent ; cathedral churches, or head minsters having pre-eminence within a diocese ; surviving old minsters being pre-eminent within an area broadly equivalent to an administrative hundred ; while newer lesser minsters and field churches were increasingly proliferating on local estates.

Some are first person like Sex crimes and the Vatican ( 2006 ) is a documentary film by Colm O ' Gorman, who was raped by a Catholic priest in the diocese of Ferns in County Wexford in Ireland when he was 14 years old.

The old name has been revived in the diocese of Borg ( 1968 ) and Borgarting Court of Appeal ( 1995 ).

The old spelling has been retained in the name of the diocese, Tunsberg bispedømme.

Under Diocletian, Raetia formed part of the diocese of the vicarius Italiae, and was subdivided into Raetia prima, with a praeses at Curia Raetorum ( Chur ) and Raetia secunda, with a praeses at Augusta Vindelicorum ( Augsburg ), the former corresponding to the old Raetia, the latter to Vindelicia.

" Administration of the two sacraments, one immediately after the other, to adults is normally done by the bishop of the diocese ( generally at the Easter Vigil, since " the baptism of adults, at least of those who have completed their fourteenth year, is to be referred to the Bishop, so that he himself may confer it if he judges this appropriate " But if the bishop does not confer the baptism, then it devolves on the priest whose office it then is to confer both sacraments, since, " in addition to the bishop, the law gives the faculty to confirm to the following ... priests who, in virtue of an office which they lawfully hold, baptize an adult or a child old enough for catechesis or receive a validly baptized adult into full communion with the Church ..."

He selected that of Loir-et-Cher, taking the old title of bishop of Blois, and for ten years ( 1791 – 1801 ) ruled his diocese with exemplary zeal.

Southwark was the largest town in the old diocese of Winchester and the bishop was a major landowner in the area.

In 1237, Richard established a retirement house for the old and infirm clergy of the diocese of Durham.

Boniface established the first bishopric in Germany outside the boundaries of the old Roman Empire on a hill ( Büraburg ) across the Eder river, but after the death of Witta, its first and only bishop, in 747 the bishopric was incorporated into the diocese ( later archdiocese ) of Mainz by Lullus, the disciple and successor of Boniface as archbishop of Mainz.

This diocese comprised the Counties of Dorset, Wiltshire, and Berkshire, for in 1058 the old Bishoprics of Sherborne and Ramsbury had been united under Bishop Hermann and the see transferred to Old Sarum.

When Gregory was consecrated he was forty years old, and he ruled his diocese for thirteen years.

One of his first acts was to request all people residing in his diocese to turn over to the King any old manuscripts, either an original or a copy, as a gift or for a price.

In central and northern Italy, and in Provence and Septimania, most of the old Roman cities had survived — even if grass grew in their streets — largely as administrative centers for a diocese or for the local representative of a distant kingly or imperial power.

The town is the territory of the Roman Catholic parishal community of Charles-de-Foucault ( old parish ), part of the ( new ) Saint-Luc parish of the Terrebonne pastoral region of the Saint-Jérôme diocese.

He took stringent measures against the relaxed monasteries, introduced the Franciscans and Dominicans into his diocese, promoted the arts and sciences, and collected the old documents which had survived the storms of the preceding period, so that to him we owe almost all our knowledge of the early history of Passau.

After the French Revolution, the new constitution created a diocese of Finistère, erasing that of the diocese of Kerne ( diocese of Cournouaille ); most of the old diocese was absorbed into the new.

The Archdeaconry of Bodmin is one of two in the Anglican Diocese of Truro and covers the eastern part of the diocese.

A feast day will be designated, but its observance is normally restricted to the Blessed's home diocese, to certain locations associated with him or her, and / or to the churches or houses of the blessed's religious order, if they belonged to one.

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.

If a bishop, especially one acting as an ordinary – a head of a diocese or archdiocese – is to be ordained, three bishops must usually co-consecrate him with one bishop, usually an archbishop or the bishop of the place, being the chief consecrating prelate.

The ancient diocese of Scythopolis was also relocated under the Archbishop of Nazareth, one of the four archdioceses in the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

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.

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.

The transfer to the diocese, headed by Hermann II with one of the younger Ezzonen, ensured the cohesion of the property.

Thus, the use of the term " diocese " referring to geography is the most equivalent in the United Methodist Church, whereas each annual conference is part of one episcopal area ( though that area may contain more than one conference ).

The history behind the vesture is that it symbolically represents the mobility of bishops and archdeacons, who at one time would ride horses to visit various parts of a diocese or archdeaconry.

In one new diocese, Southwell, a city was not created, because Southwell was a village without a borough corporation and therefore could not petition the Queen.

Its governor was raised to the rank of consularis in 320, and the province remained one of the seven provinces of the diocese of Africa until the invasion of the Vandals in 428 AD, which began its slow decay, accompanied by desertification.

Those who must be invited to a diocesan synod by law are any coadjutor or auxiliary bishops, the vicars general and episcopal, the officialis, the vicars forane plus an additional priest from each vicariate forane, the presbyterial council, canons of the cathedral chapter ( if there is one ), the rector of the seminary, some of the superiors of religious houses in the diocese, and members of the laity chosen by the diocesan pastoral council, though the diocesan bishop can invite others to attend at his own initiative.

The county is part of the Diocese of Limerick and Killaloe, one of the three cathedrals of the diocese being St Flannan's Cathedral in Killaloe.

Little notice was taken of his life and activities ; only a few charters originated in his household and there is only one listing of gifts to his diocese.

Documented from 1012, it was one of the most important pievi of the diocese during the Middle Ages.

Since the diocese placed one priest in charge of all three communities in 2005, Masses have been coordinated and there is greater movement of races between the parishes.

She named the college after one of her father's 13th-century predecessors, Hugh of Avalon, who was canonised in 1220, and in whose diocese Oxford had been.

The diocese of Elmham covered East Anglia, in eastern England, and was one of the poorer episcopal sees at that time.

At this time, Christianization by the missionaries Liudger and Willehad started ; one part of East Frisia became a part of the diocese of Bremen, the other the diocese of Münster.