Godfrey Goodman, Bishop of Gloucester, recalled: " When we had experience of a Scottish government, the Queen did seem to revive.

When Henry Compton, the Bishop of London, did not ban John Sharp from preaching after he gave an anti-Catholic sermon, James ordered his removal.

When Bishop de Berghes became eligible to inherit he was in a religious community and could not accept the title.

When Callixtus followed Zephyrinus as Bishop of Rome, he started to admit into the church converts from sects or schisms who had not done penance ( as we learn from Hippolytus, Philosophoumena IX. 7 ).

When Montenegro re-established secular dynastic succession by the proclamation of princedom in 1851, it did so in favor of the last Prince-bishop, who changed his style from Vladika i upravitelj Crne Gore i Brde " Vladika ( Bishop ) and Ruler of Montenegro and Brda " to Po Bozjoj milosti knjaz i gospodar Crne Gore i Brde " By the grace of God Prince and Sovereign of Montenegro and Brda ", thus rendering his de facto dynasty ( the Petrović-Njegoš family since 1696 ) a hereditary one.

When elders are not available to be appointed to a local church, either through shortage of personnel ; financial hardship of a pastoral charge ; or possess particular skills or gifts the Bishop may appoint a “ Local Pastor ” to serve the pastoral appointment.

When John was aged, he trained Polycarp who later became Bishop of Smyrna.

When John was aged, he trained Polycarp who later became Bishop of Smyrna.

When he appointed Robert of Jumièges as Archbishop of Canterbury in 1051, he chose the leading craftsman Spearhafoc to replace Robert as Bishop of London.

When an old bishop died in 1554, Gustav Vasa had Agricola consecrated as the ordinarius of Turku parish – for all practical purposes Bishop of Turku and by extension the first Lutheran bishop for all Finland.

When the persecution had begun to subside, Dionysius was raised to the office of Bishop of Rome.

When the old governor is unable to contain the pirate menace, Colonel Bishop is promoted to his post, and Arabella is sent to England for a recreational sojourn.

When in the summer of 954 father and son were ready to attack each other at Illertissen in Swabia, at the last moment Ulrich and Bishop Hartbert of Chur were able to mediate between Otto and Liudolf.

When Juan Diego opened the cloak before Bishop Zumárraga on December 12th, the flowers fell to the floor, and in their place was the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe, miraculously imprinted on the fabric.

When Juan Diego unfolded his tilma before the Bishop roses cascaded from his tilma, and an icon of Our Lady of Guadalupe was miraculously impressed on the cloth, bringing the bishop to his knees.

When the Lombards invaded Italy in 568, the Bishop of Milan fled and held his seat in Genoa.

When his half-brother deposed Richard and took the throne as Henry IV of England, he made Bishop Beaufort Lord Chancellor of England in 1403.

When Henry was Bishop of Lincoln, he had an affair with, some believe, Alice FitzAlan ( 1378 – 1415 ), the daughter of Richard FitzAlan and Elizabeth de Bohun, though there is no real evidence to support this and the theory has been countered by Brad Verity.

When the Bishop of Valence and Charles de La Rochefoucault, sieur of Randan, sent by the king to negotiate, arrived in Scotland they were almost treated like prisoners.

When the abbey was dissolved, he retired, and later became 1st Bishop of Gloucester.

When Oliver King, Bishop of Bath and Wells 1495 – 1503, visited Bath in 1499 he was shocked to find this famous church in ruins.

When Mehmed finally entered Constantinople through what is now known as the Topkapi Gate, he immediately rode his horse to the Hagia Sophia which he ordered to be sacked.

When the Christian church split in 1054 between the East and Rome, the region of southern Albania retained its ties to Constantinople while the north reverted to the jurisdiction of Rome.

When the icon arrived in Constantinople it was fitted in as the head into a very large rectangular icon of her holding the Christ child and it is this composite icon that became the one historically known as the Hodegetria.

When they reached Astrakhan, Uzbeg Khan had just given permission for one of his pregnant wives, Princess Bayalun, a daughter of Greek Emperor Andronikos III Palaiologos, to return to her home city of Constantinople to give birth.

When an executioner was sent to strangle him at Yedikule, Constantinople, Osman II refused to give in and started fighting the man and was only subdued when he was hit on his back with the rear end of an axe by one of his imprisoners.

When the Roman Empire was divided into eastern and western halves in 395 AD, Scupi came under Byzantine rule from Constantinople.

When the Roman Empire was divided in two in 395 AD, Epirus became part of the Eastern Roman Empire ( subsequently the Greek-speaking Byzantine Empire ), ruled from Constantinople.

When Constantinople fell to the Fourth Crusade in 1204, Michael Angelos Komnenos Ducas seized Aetolia and Epirus and established an independent state known as the Despotate of Epirus with Arta as its capital.

When Manuel II returned home in 1403, his nephew duly surrendered control of Constantinople and received as a reward the governorship of newly-recovered Thessalonica.

When the doctrine of the Trinity was expounded at the First Council of Constantinople, it was decided that God was one being who consisted of three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

When the Ottoman Turks conquered Constantinople in 1453, the Patriarchate ceased to function.

When Pope Vigilius went to Constantinople on the orders of Emperor Justinian I, Pelagius stayed in Rome as the pope's representative.

When they threatened the position of Constantine VII, however, the people of Constantinople revolted, and Stephen and Constantine were likewise stripped of their imperial rank and sent into exile to their father.

When John Kantakouzenos left Constantinople for Morea, his enemies seized the opportunity to declare John V emperor and order the disbandment of Kantakouzenos's army.

When news reached the army at Didymoteichon in Thrace, they declared Kantakouzenos emperor, and this marked the start of the civil war between John Kantakouzenos and the regency in Constantinople headed by Anna of Savoy, Apokaukos and the Patriarch.

When Leo VI became ruling emperor in 886 one of his first acts was to have Michael's body exhumed and reburied, with great ceremony, in the imperial mausoleum in the Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople.

) When Constantinople became the capital of the Eastern Empire, Nicaea did not lose in importance ; for its present walls, which were erected during the last period of the Empire, enclose a much greater space than that ascribed to the place in the time of Strabo.

When his uncle was summoned to Constantinople to tutor one of the sons of emperor Constantine I, Ausonius accompanied him to the capital.

When Pope Adrian II rejected Boris's request that either Formosus or Deacon Marinus ( later Pope Marinus I ) be made Archbishop of Bulgaria, Boris began to look again towards Constantinople.

When Justin I ( 518 – 527 ) came to the throne in Constantinople, the conflict began anew.

When Arcadius died, and the testament was opened, information of its contents was sent to Isdigerd, who at once accepted the charge assigned to him, and addressed a letter to the Senate of Constantinople, in which he declared his determination to punish any attempt against his ward with the extremest severity.

When he was nine, his father dispatched him with his brother Michael to Constantinople to receive an education.

When his sister died, he gave up that position and returned to Constantinople to resume his studies.

When the chieftain of the Heruli, Odoacer, deposed Western Emperor Romulus Augustus, sending the imperial regalia to Constantinople, Zeno had just regained his throne, and he could only appoint Odoacer dux of Italy, thereby ending the Western Roman Empire.