In 1814 a bishop of Calcutta was made ; in 1824 the first bishop was sent to the West Indies and in 1836 to Australia.

In 1058 he undertook a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, the first bishop from England to do so.

In 1058 Ealdred made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, the first English bishop to make the journey.

In Acts 11: 30 and, we see a collegiate system of government in Jerusalem though headed by James, according to tradition the first bishop of the city.

The first woman bishop within Anglicanism was Barbara Clementine Harris, who was ordained in the United States in 1989.

Marjorie Matthews being the first woman to be consecrated a bishop in 1980.

At first he did not call himself bishop, but eventually submitted to the usage by the denomination.

At first the president of the local church ( bishop ) or the leader of the choir chose a particular psalm as he thought appropriate.

) 1245 ) was the first missionary bishop of Prussia.

This is the first surviving use of the word mormaer ; other than the knowledge that Constantine's kingdom had its own bishop or bishops and royal villas, this is the only hint to the institutions of the kingdom.

Cyril got in trouble again when he appointed his nephew to bishop of Caesarea ; this was not the first time Cyril had appointed someone close to him to a high position in the Church.

The first bishop of Ethiopia, Saint Frumentius, was consecrated as Bishop of Axum by Pope Athanasius of Alexandria in 328 AD.

It established Diocese of Samogitia, with seat in Medininkai and subordinated to Lithuanian dioceses, and appointed Matthias of Trakai as the first bishop.

Christianity was introduced into the country by Frumentius, who was consecrated first bishop of Ethiopia by Saint Athanasius of Alexandria about

According to Eusebius of Caesarea in the Ecclesiastical History, he served as the first bishop of Crete.

He first appears in the historical record as bishop of Angers at the synod of Rheims in 1049, and for a long time had been an adherent of Berengar's doctrine of the Lord's Supper.

Caesarea's Christian community presumably had a history reaching back to apostolic times, but it is a common claim that no bishops are attested for the town before about AD 190, even though the Apostolic Constitutions 7. 46 states that Zacchaeus was the first bishop.

The idea of a canal across southern Sweden was first put forward as early as 1516, by Hans Brask, the bishop of Linköping.

His father was a gardener, and he himself became first connected with the church in the humble position of a bellringer and verger in the Duomo of Piacenza ; he was twenty-one when the judge Ignazio Gardini, of Ravenna, was banished, and he followed Gardini to Ravenna where he met the vice-legate Giorgio Barni, who was made bishop of Piacenza in 1688 and appointed Alberoni chamberlain of his household.

It became Christian under the Late Roman Empire, and acquired its first bishop at this time.

In 834, Hamburg was designated the seat of a Roman Catholic bishopric, whose first bishop, Ansgar, became known as the Apostle of the North.

After the Little Entrance, the arch-priest and arch-deacon conduct the bishop-elect before the Royal Gates where he is met by the bishops and kneels before the altar on both knees and the Gospel Book is laid over his head and the consecrating bishops lay their hands upon the Gospel Book, while the prayers of ordination are read by the eldest bishop ; after this, the newly consecrated bishop ascends the synthranon ( bishop's throne in the sanctuary ) for the first time.

The ordaining bishop then places his omophor and right hand over the ordinand's head and recites aloud the first Prayer of Cheirotonia and then prays silently the other two prayers of cheirotonia while a deacon quietly recites a litany and the clergy, then the congregation, chant “ Lord, have mercy ”.

After he had spent the first three years in New York as associate conductor, at Toscanini's invitation, of the NBC Orchestra, he made numerous guest appearances throughout the United States and Latin America.

At first glance this appears strange: of all people, was not America founded by rugged individualists who established a new way of life still inspiring `` undeveloped '' societies abroad??

We note that, first, America has already made great contributions in the past two years to the world's fund of knowledge of astrophysics and space science.

The concept of labor as a special class is outmoded, and in the task confronting America as bastion of the free world, labor must learn to put the national interest first if it is itself to survive.

The first year's projects should also be spread through several countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia.

The first was that America had become -- or was in danger of becoming -- a second-rate military power.

The Administration's proposals, complex and sweeping as they are, all deal with fringe areas of the housing market rather than its core, stated Caron S. Stallard, first vice-president of the Mortgage Bankers Association of America.

After signing a motion-picture contract, she came to America and had `` Goodbye, Mr. Chips '' as her first assignment after a year's wait.

The paintings, drawings, prints, and illustrations all reflect the manners, costumes, and mores of America in the first half of the present century.

The President of the United States proclaimed the first Sunday in November as `` National Grandmothers' Day '' and urged America to say it with flowers.

Ward's music combined with the Bates poem was first published in 1910 and titled America the Beautiful.

Ward's music combined with Bates ' poem were first published together in 1910 and titled, America the Beautiful.

The Articles of Confederation, formally the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, was an agreement among the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution.

After being wounded in a leg and suffering other injuries, he moved to North America in 1916 ( first to Canada, then the United States ) to coordinate the shipment of artillery to Russia.

He is the first known Jewish immigrant to America.

* 1851 – The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America.

Doubleday fired the first shots from the Union in the defense of Fort Sumter in a " contest ..., as whether virtue or vice should rule " in America.

Chinese has in which the first element sounds like the accented second syllable in " America " ( and the second element means " nation ").

Later, his published letters were the basis of Waldseemüller's 1507 map, which is the first usage of America.

* 1527 – The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.

* 1679 – The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.

The school, considered one of the first formal adult education centers in America, was also attended by foreign scholars.

Even so, his ideas helped to found one of the first adult education centers in America, and provided the foundation for future generations of liberal education.

Raphael Morgan, first African-American Orthodox priest, " Priest-Apostolic " to America and the West Indies.

* 1775 – The first abolition society in North America is established.