While in Rome, he attended a papal council, along with his fellow English bishop Herman.

While bishop he was largely responsible for the construction of a large organ in the cathedral, audible from over a mile ( 1600 m ) away and said to require more than 24 men to operate.

While Alexander had been priming Athanasius to assume the bishopric after his death, it is said, he was not unanimously supported, and questions of his age ( the minimum age to become a bishop was thirty, and questions remain to this day whether he was yet that old ).

While Ignatius of Antioch offers the earliest clear description of monarchial bishops ( a single bishop over all house churches in a city ) he is an advocate of monepiscopal structure rather than describing an accepted reality.

While traditional teaching maintains that any bishop with apostolic succession can validly perform the ordination of another bishop, some churches require two or three bishops participate, either to ensure sacramental validity or to conform with church law.

While the civil power in the East controlled the church and the bishop of Constantinople, the capital, wielded much power, in the West the Bishops of Rome were able to consolidate the influence and power they already possessed.

While this simple method worked well in a small community of Christians unified by persecution, as the congregation grew in size, the acclamation of a new bishop was fraught with division, and rival claimants and a certain class hostility between patrician and plebeian candidates unsettled some episcopal elections.

While theology of the Arians was declared a heresy at the First Council of Nicea in 325 AD, the missionary work of the bishop Ulfilas converted the pagan Goths to Arian Christianity in the 4th Century.

While the bishop of Rome had always been viewed as the chief patriarch in the Western church, much of the pope's authority was delegated to local diocesan bishops.

While it is technically possible for a bishop to fork, practical opportunities are rare.

While " minor excommunication " could be incurred by associating with an excommunicate, and " major excommunication " could be imposed by any Catholic bishop, " anathema " was imposed by the Pope in a specific ceremony described in the Pontificale Romanum.

While there, Oswald entered into a fray between the Domkapitel of Brixen and the new Prince-Bishop of Brixen, Ulrich Putsch, who was a friend of Martin Jäger, a confidante of Count Friedrich, and soon-to-be bishop chancellor of the County of Tyrol.

While living in Antioch with his family, Zeno sympathised with the Monophysite views of Peter the Fuller, and supported him against his opponent, the Chalcedonian bishop Martyrius.

While at York, Wilfrid was considered the " bishop of the Northumbrian peoples "; Bede records that Wilfrid's diocese was contiguous with the area ruled by Oswiu.

While requests by groups of Catholics wishing to use the Tridentine liturgy in parish Masses are to be dealt with by the parish priest ( or the rector of the church ) rather than, as before, by the local bishop, the Pope and Cardinal Darío Castrillón have stated that the bishops ' authority is not thereby undermined.

While in that city the bishop was named as one of the guarantors of a new financial arrangement between the king and the pope dealing with feudal payments from England, which lowered the lump sum that had to be paid before Innocent would lift the interdict.

While in office as bishop, St-Calais gave a copy of the False Decretals to his cathedral library.

While he was bishop, he introduced reforms and excommunicated the Patarini.

While each bishop is autonomous in his own diocese, meetings of the conference give bishops a chance to discuss issues of mutual concern, or issues of national policy.

While in Australia he became acquainted with J. I. Wedgwood, a Theosophist and bishop in the Liberal Catholic Church who initiated him into Co-Masonry in 1915 and later consecrated him as a bishop of the Liberal Catholic Church in 1916.

While the bishop publicly defended the royal measures, Nordin became the king's private adviser.

While a diocesan bishop is competent to decide on concrete questions concerning the removal of altar rails from a church in the diocese committed to his pastoral care, he is required prudently to make that decision in accordance with the norms of law, taking into account the wishes of the faithful.

While Salieri followed the precepts set forth by Gluck and his librettist Ranieri de ' Calzabigi in the preface to Alceste ; Salieri also drew on some musical ideas from the more traditional opera-seria and even opera buffa, creating a new synthesis in the process.

A Plague Inflicted on Israel While Eating the Quail ( illustration from the 1728 Figures de la Bible )

While he is known as DeMille ( his nom d ' oeuvre ), his family name was Dutch and is usually spelled " de Mil ".

While the presence of a long-term professional minister has sometimes created " significant de facto ministerial authority " and led to conflict between the minister and the elders, the eldership has remained the " ultimate locus of authority in the congregation ".

While the Expresión en Corto International Film Festival is the largest competitive film festival in Mexico, specializing in emerging talents, and is held each year during the last week of July in the two colonial cities of San Miguel de Allende and Guanajuato.

While largely left out of the thrust for increasing rights of citizens, as the question was left indeterminate in the Declaration of the Rights of Man, activists such as Pauline Léon and Théroigne de Méricourt agitated for full citizenship for women.

While describing how the Bible predicts Muhammad, he speaks of the " Gospel of Saint Barnabas where one can find the light " (" y así mismo en Evangelio de San Bernabé, donde se hallará la luz ").

While staying at the Grand Hotel et de Milan in Milan, Verdi had a stroke on 21 January 1901.

While in Môtiers, Rousseau wrote the Constitutional Project for Corsica ( Projet de Constitution pour la Corse, 1765 ).

While taking a morning walk on the estate of the marquis René Louis de Girardin at Ermenonville ( 28 miles northeast of Paris ), Rousseau suffered a hemorrhage and died, aged 66.

While at Berlin he made several visits to the Netherlands, in 1684, 1686, and 1688, chiefly for the purpose of superintending the printing of several of his works, including the Traité de la Vérité, 1684.

While independence was being reclaimed, the election of King Gustav of the Vasa at Strängnäs on June 6, 1523, has been seen as a formal declaration of independence, and as the de facto end of a union that had lost all long-term support in Sweden.

While chivalric romances abound, particularly notable literary portrayals of knighthood include Geoffrey Chaucer's The Knight's Tale, Baldassare Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier, and Miguel de Cervantes ' Don Quixote, as well as Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur and other Arthurian tales ( Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, the Pearl Poet's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, etc.

While serving the government as a silent weapon against political adversaries or dangerous writers and as a means of punishing culprits of high birth without the scandal of a lawsuit, the lettres de cachet had many other uses.

While marching north again, Malcolm was ambushed by Robert de Mowbray, Earl of Northumbria, whose lands he had devastated, near Alnwick on 13 November 1093.

While anchored in Dungeness Bay on the south shore of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, third lieutenant Joseph Baker made an observation of Mount Baker, which Vancouver recorded in his journal:

While studying these languages, Abel published his first notable work in 1824, Mémoire sur les équations algébriques où on démontre l ' impossibilité de la résolution de l ' équation générale du cinquième degré ( Memoir on algebraic equations, in which the impossibility of solving the general equation of the fifth degree is proven ).

While developing Santa Fe as a trade center, the returning settlers founded Albuquerque in 1706 from existing surrounding communities, naming it for the viceroy of New Spain, Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 10th Duke of Alburquerque.

* While returning from Italy in 1576 Edward de Vere first encountered a cavalry division outside of Paris that was being led by a German duke and then pirates in the English Channel.

While the original proofs of Hadamard and de la Vallée-Poussin are long and elaborate, and later proofs have introduced various simplifications through the use of Tauberian theorems but remained difficult to digest, a surprisingly short proof was discovered in 1980 by American mathematician Donald J. Newman.

While there, Honorius ruled that the Bishop of St Andrews was to be subject to the Archbishop of York and in the more contentious issue, he attempted to circumvent his way around the problem by declaring that Thurstan was subject to William de Corbeil, not in his role as Archbishop of Canterbury, but as papal legate for England and Scotland.

While there are process theologies that are similar, but unrelated to the work of Whitehead ( such as Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ) the term is generally applied to the Whiteheadian / Hartshornean school.

While red tides in the Gulf of Mexico have been occurring since the time of early explorers such as Cabeza de Vaca, it is unclear what initiates these blooms and how large a role anthropogenic and natural factors play in their development.

While in prison, Richard wrote Ja nus hons pris or Ja nuls om pres (" No man who is imprisoned "), which is addressed to his half-sister Marie de Champagne.