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 ).

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.

In 1650, Odescalchi became bishop of Novara, in which capacity he spent all the revenues of his see to relieve the poor and sick in his diocese.

Boniface returned to the continent the next year, and this time went straight to Rome, where Pope Gregory II renamed him " Boniface ", for the ( legendary ) fourth-century martyr Boniface of Tarsus, and appointed him missionary bishop for Germania -- he became a bishop without a diocese for an area that lacked any church organization.

After having lost its status of royal city, it became the préfecture ( regional capital ) of Seine-et-Oise département in 1790, then of Yvelines in 1968, and a Roman Catholic diocese.

At a young age he became a lector among the clergy of Antioch, then resided a while in a monastery, was a cleric at Cyrrhus, and in 423 became bishop over a diocese about forty miles square and embracing 800 parishes, but with an insignificant town as its see city.

In 1475 pope Sixtus IV raised the diocese of Avignon to the rank of an archbishopric, in favour of his nephew Giuliano della Rovere, who later became Pope Julius II.

In 2002, as part of the reshuffling of the ecclesiastic provinces of France, the Archdiocese of Avignon ceased to be a metropolitan and became, instead a suffragan diocese of the new province of Marseilles, while keeping its rank of archdiocese.

This was the starting point of Christianization of the Czech people, and the diocese of Regensburg became the mother diocese of Prague.

He acted for many years as assessor of the vice-chancellor's court, and in 1632 became chancellor of the diocese of Oxford.

The town gained the status of a diocese in 1122, and the priory became Carlisle Cathedral.

Lodi became the see of a diocese in the 3rd century and its first bishop, Saint Bassianus ( San Bassiano ) is the patron saint of the town.

In 1379, having received ordination as a deacon, he became a missionary preacher throughout the diocese of Utrecht.

In the year of Kaller's investiture his diocese, which had turned exempt in 1566 when its original metropolitan Archbishopric of Riga, had been become Lutheran and de jure dissolved, became again suffragan to an archdiocese.

The abbey became part of the diocese of Lincoln in 1542 and was moved to the diocese of London in 1550.

* Robert " of the Chamber " Breakspear ( d. 1110 ), priest of the diocese of Bath, then monk at St Albans ; father of Nicholas who became the only English Pope, Pope Adrian IV.

When in 1276 the bishops became the sovereign in neighboring Kołobrzeg, they moved their residence there, while the administration of the diocese was done from Koszalin.

In 1992, Kalisz became a seat of a separate diocese of the Catholic Church.

Although defended by Sidonius Apollinaris, at the head of the diocese from 468 to 486, and the patrician Ecdicius, the city was ceded to the Visigoths by emperor Julius Nepos in 475 and became part of the Visigothic kingdom until 507.

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.

In 1859 James Quinn was appointed Bishop of Brisbane, Brisbane becoming a diocese, and Pugin's small church became a cathedral.

Æthelnoth became a monk at Glastonbury, then was made dean of the monastery of Christ Church Priory, at Canterbury, the cathedral chapter for the diocese of Canterbury.

At Geneva in 1954, to get the war in Indo-China settled, the British and French gave in to Russian and Communist Chinese demands and agreed to the setting up of a Communist state, North Viet Nam -- which then, predictably, became a base for Communist operations against neighboring South Viet Nam and Laos.

He learned the Polish language at home and the Russian language in schools ; and having a French governess and a German governess, he became fluent in these four languages as a child.

After the arrival of missionaries in the late 18th century, many Aleuts became Christian by joining the Russian Orthodox Church.

The latter became known as recallists (" otzovists " in Russian ).

In 1918, RSDLP ( b ) became ( All -) Russian Communist Party ( bolsheviks ) and remained so until 1925.

Gaining control or special access to the strait became a key foreign policy goal of the Russian Empire during the 19th century.

He dealt with Soviet Marshal Zhukov, his Russian counterpart, and they became good friends.

It was the threat of the expanding Russian Empire beginning to push for an advantage in the Afghanistan region that placed pressure on British India, in what became known as the " Great Game ".

Central or Middle Russian ( with its Moscow sub-dialect ), the transitional step between the North and the South, became a base for the Russian literary standard.

In childhood he visited the Imperial Court of Russia at St Petersburg and became intimate with the doomed Russian Imperial Family, harbouring romantic feelings towards Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna, whose photograph he kept at his bedside for the rest of his life.

The Khanzhonkov company quickly became much the largest Russian film company, and remained so until 1918.

Another pioneer of cinema was Bolesław Matuszewski, who became one of the first filmmakers working for the Lumière company-and the official " cinematographer " of the Russian tsars in 1897.

The autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland, as a part of the Russian Empire, became a part of the vacuum and the struggle for power.

By the 1860s, the Russian Empire – continued as the Soviet Union – became the largest contiguous state in the world, and the latter's main successor, Russia, continues to be so to this day.

The " Red ", or left-wing conspiracy faction, which promoted peasant enfranchisement and cooperated with Russian revolutionaries, became involved in immediate preparations for a national uprising.

During the siege, on 8 February 1913, the Russian pilot N. de Sackoff, flying for the Greeks, became the first pilot ever shot down in combat, when his biplane was hit by ground fire following a bomb run on the walls of Fort Bizani.

The principality's prestige was further enhanced when it became the center of the Russian Orthodox Church.

In celebration of his conquests, Peter assumed the title of emperor as well as tsar, and Russian Tsardom officially became the Russian Empire in 1721.

An increasingly nationalistic emphasis on Russian history and achievements became a salient feature of Soviet culture in the 1940s.

When war became inevitable between Russia and the Porte, Andrássy arranged with the Russian court that, in case Russia prevailed, the status quo should not be changed to the detriment of the Austrian monarchy.

Russian traders and soldiers began to appear on the northwestern edge of Kazakh territory in the 17th century, when Cossacks established the forts that later became the cities of Yaitsk ( modern Oral ) and Guryev ( modern Atyrau ).

He was sent to the Russian front in 1944 and quickly became a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union from 1944 to 1948.

Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, Voroshilov became a member of the Ukrainian Council of People's Commissars and Commissar for Internal Affairs along with Vasili Averin.