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

Thus, in time, the bishop changed from being the leader of a single church confined to an urban area to being the leader of the churches of a given geographical area.

Thus, despite widely held popular belief outside the Orthodox cultures, there is not one bishop at the head of the Orthodox Church ; references to the Patriarch of Constantinople as a leader equivalent or comparable to a pope in the Roman Catholic Church are mistaken.

Thus a retired archbishop can only be considered a bishop ( though it is possible to refer to ' Bishop John Smith, the former Archbishop of York '), a canon or archdeacon is a priest on retirement and does not hold any additional honorifics.

Thus, apart from the Chrism Mass for the blessing of the Holy Oils that the diocesan bishop may celebrate on the morning of Holy Thursday, but also on some other day close to Easter, the only Mass on this day is the evening Mass of the Lord's Supper, which inaugurates the period of three days, known as the Easter Triduum, that includes Good Friday ( seen as beginning with the service of the preceding evening ), Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday up to evening prayer on that day.

Thus a Maronite Catholic is normally subject only to a Maronite bishop.

Thus, even though White possesses the bishop pair, it is usually advisable for Black to open the game quickly to exploit his lead in development.

Thus, Adalbert became the first Slavic bishop to become a saint.

Thus on June 26, 1844, the president slipped into New York City, where the nuptials were performed by the Right Reverend Benjamin Treadwell Onderdonk, fourth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, at the Church of the Ascension.

Thus in the East during the third century the bishop of the provincial metropolis came gradually to occupy a certain superior position, and received the name of metropolitan.

Thus, for example, a DD ( Doctor of Divinity ) might be conferred upon a bishop on the occasion of their consecration, or a judge created LLD ( Legum Doctor ) or DCL ( Doctor of Civil Law ) upon their appointment to the bench.

Thus, the New Catholic Encyclopedia argues that the dispute need not have produced a permanent schism any more than excommunication of any " contumacious bishop.

Thus, the archbishop of Athens, Michael Choniates, who had taken refuge from the Latin troops on Kea wrote at the end of 1208 or at the beginning of 1209 a letter to the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in which he refused to take charge of the vacant bishop seat of Paros-Naxos.

Thus, Rome granted the right to Spytihněv of wearing the mitre and tunic of a bishop for the annual sum of 100 marks.

Thus, a judicial decision of a bishop needed the confirmation of the chapter before it could be enforced.

Thus, the emperors were keen to maintain their say on who was promoted bishop and who was not.

Thus, all those territories and Boal included among them were submitted to the bishop of Oviedo by donation in the year 1154, under the generic denomination of territory of Castropol.

Thus, in the Catholic Church, the office of successor of Simon Peter and the office of diocesan bishop possess their ordinary power even in the absence of positive enactments from the Church.

Thus in the inventory of Walter Skirlawe, bishop of Durham ( 1405 – 1406 ), eight chimeres of various colors are mentioned, including two for riding ( pro equitatura ).

" Thus Servatius appears to have been bishop of Tongeren at this time.

Thus, while Novgorod technically still had a prelate, he was not often active in the city itself, and the church in the city was administered by a vicar bishop for much of the time.

Thus it was held by Roland de Dinan, a Breton lord, in 1167 ; Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester before 1204 ; Theodoric the Teuton, a servant of King John, after 1204 ; William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, in 1217, and intermittently by the third and fourth Earls up to 1237 ; Simon de Steyland, the King's clerk, around 1237 ; John son of Geoffrey, described as " of the lands of the Bretons ", from 1240 ; Nicholas of Ely, Bishop of Winchester, from about 1272 ; and then by three successive queens: Queen Eleanor, Queen Margaret, and Queen Isabella, from 1280 until 1331.

Thus the government simultaneously undertook the vast burden of social security which had traditionally been privately discharged, and created a national scarcity which has engendered calamitous problems of social security.

Thus it was that Barco, apprehended for mere larceny, now began to suspect that one or another of his murders had been uncovered.

Thus, when Dartmouth's Winter Carnival -- widely recognized as the greatest, wildest, roaringest college weekend anywhere, any time -- was broadcast over a national television hookup, Prexy John Sloan Dickey appeared on the screen in rugged winter garb, topped off by a tam-o'-shanter which he confessed had been acquired from a Smith girl.

Thus, while it remains possible that the Babylonians and/or the Pythagoreans may perhaps have had the magic square of three before the Chinese did, more definite evidence will have to turn up from the Middle East or the Classical World before China can lose her claim to the earliest known magic square by more than a thousand years.

Thus he prohibited the application of torture to children under fourteen years, though this rule had exceptions.

" Thus Ambrose refused to be drawn into a false conflict over which particular local church had the " right " liturgical form where there was no substantial problem.

Thus, from the human body, the usual form assigned to the Deity, forasmuch as it is written that God created man in his own image, issue the two supporters, Nous and Logos, symbols of the inner sense and the quickening understanding, as typified by the serpents, for the same reason that had induced the old Greeks to assign this reptile for an attribute to Pallas.

Thus, during the abdication crisis of 1936, caused by Edward VIII's desire to marry Wallis Simpson, the consent of all realms concerned, along with, in some cases, new acts of parliament, was required in Britain and throughout the British Dominions to allow for Edward's stepping aside and to ensure that if he had any children they would have no claim to the thrones.

Thus, Abulafia in the 13th century assumed that the language spoken in Paradise had been different from Hebrew, and rejected the claim then current also among Christian authors, that a child left unexposed to linguistic stimulus would automatically begin to speak in Hebrew.

Thus Dürer contributed to the expansion in German prose which Martin Luther had begun with his translation of the Bible.

Thus the price of wheat had fallen.

Thus, Walsh modified the vertical passing scheme he had learned during his time with the Raiders, designing a horizontal passing system that relied on quick, short throws-often spreading the ball across the entire width of the field.

Thus a fighter realizing he was in trouble had an opportunity to recover.

Thus, southern Germany once more became part of the Frankish kingdom, as had northern Germany during the first years of the reign.

In his fictional historical essay " The Hyborian Age ", Howard describes how the people of Atlantis — the land where his character King Kull originated — had to move east after a great cataclysm changed the face of the world and sank their island, settling where Ireland and Scotland would eventually be located, Thus they are ( in Howard's work ) the ancestors of the Irish and Scottish ( the Celtic Gaels ) and not the Picts, the other ancestor of modern Scots who also appear in Howard's work.

Thus, by 1939, both Church ( 1934 ) and Turing ( 1939 ), neither having knowledge of the other's efforts, had individually proposed that their " formal systems " should be definitions of " effective calculability "; neither framed their statements as theses.

Thus, many understood Eutyches to be advocating Docetism, a sort of reversal of Arianism — where Arius had denied the consubstantial divinity of Jesus, Eutyches seemed to be denying his human nature.

Thus the Rump never had more than two hundred members ( less than half the number of the Commons in the original Long Parliament ).

Thus, every non-Han dynasty saw itself as the legitimate holder of the " Mandate of Heaven ", which legitimized the dynastic cycle regardless of social or ethnic background as it was moral integrity and benevolent leadership that had been validating the " Mandate of Heaven.

Thus, Cyril followed his uncle in a position that had become powerful and influential, rivalling that of the prefect in a time of turmoil and frequently violent conflict between the cosmopolitan city's Pagan, Jewish, and Christian inhabitants.

Thus, this supposedly distinctive feature was easy to use, but had nothing to do with actual phylogenic relationship.

Thus the dragoon regiments of the Imperial German Army wore the pickelhaube ( spiked helmet ) of the same design as those of the infantry and the British dragoons wore scarlet tunics, In other respects however dragoons had adopted the same tactics, roles and equipment as other branches of the cavalry and the distinction had become simply one of traditional titles.

Thus Bolesław the Brave might have received Kraków as his part of his father's legacy before the Dagome iudex had been written.

Thus, churches actually had money-changing tables at which each coin would be examined separately and a token of actual worth given to the layperson so that he or she could be seen by the other parishioners as putting money in the basket during that part of the service.