bishopric in English

noun
1
the office or rank of a bishop.
Nevertheless, the distribution and control of offices, such as countships, abbacies, and bishoprics rather than the royal treasury became the main foci of the political rivalries and conflicts of the ninth and tenth centuries.

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1. The Presiding Bishopric

2. In April 2009 former Presiding Bishopric counselor Richard C.

3. Bishoprics: Plural form of <xref>bishopric</xref>

4. In 987, the Amalfitan bishopric was raised to archiepiscopal status.

5. The children’s Primary teachers conduct activity days unless the bishopric calls separate activity days leaders.

6. With a wry smile, he replied: “I’m now second counselor in my ward bishopric.

7. My assignment as a member of the Presiding Bishopric is exciting and inspiring.

8. In medieval times the region was part of the Prince-Bishopric of Münster.

9. bishopric (plural Bishoprics) A diocese or region of a church which a bishop governs.

10. Synonyms for Archbishopric include archbishopdom, primacy, bishopric, calling, job, office, primate, role, vocation and see

11. A member of my ward bishopric was at the train station to bid me farewell.

12. 23 Shortly before his death he refused the Bishopric of Glasgow and died a saintly death on August 1

13. The motive for the Lübeck town council to embark on such an ambitious undertaking was the acrimonious relationship with the Bishopric of Lübeck.

14. Until the early 19th century, the territory of the district belonged to Brunswick-Celle, Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and the Bishopric of Hildesheim.

15. At the end of 1988 I was enjoying my calling as second counselor in the bishopric in Ciudad Ojeda, Venezuela, but I had a pressing concern.

16. The population of Kirchheim unter Teck originally belonged to the Bishopric of Constance and was assigned to the Archdeanery circa alpes, chapter Kirchheim.

17. Honorius II then fled to his bishopric at Parma and, although anathematized by a papal council, he insisted until the day of his death that he was the rightful pope.13

18. The Prince-Bishopric of Augsburg (German: Fürstbistum Augsburg; Hochstift Augsburg) was one of the prince-bishoprics of the Holy Roman Empire, and belonged to the Swabian Circle

19. The Bishopric of Culm embraced the province of Culm, that is, the land between Vistula, Drewenz, and Ossa rivers, and in addition, the city of Löbau and its surrounding district

20. The Bishopric of Riga existed from 1186, was upgraded to the Archbishopric of Riga in 1255, and throughout its time, it was a member of the Livonian Confederation

21. I was ordained an elder, and on the day of my departure for active duty with the navy, a member of my ward bishopric joined my family and friends at the train station to bid me farewell.

22. Historians and canonists, however, generally hold that the Roman bishopric was filled on its vacancy in the same manner as other Bishoprics, that is, the election of the new pope was made by the neighbouring bishops and the clergy and faithful of Rome.

23. As a bishopric, Avitta Bibba was a suffragan of the metropolitan see of Carthage.This may have been the see of the bishop Tertullus (Tertullus Abitensis) who took part in a council held at Cabarsussi in 393 by a breakaway group of

24. Former Archbishops who have not received the status of Archbishop emeritus may still be informally addressed as "Archbishop" as a courtesy, unless they are subsequently appointed to a bishopric (not an Archbishopric), in which case the courtesy ceases.

25. Angers is situated on the banks of the Maine river in the Pays de la Loire region, and was once capital of the Anjou region of France - it is the seat of a bishopric dating from the third century and prefecture for the Maine-et-Loire department

26. The Metropolis of Bessarabia (Romanian: Mitropolia Basarabiei), also referred to as the Bessarabian Orthodox Church, is a Moldovan autonomous Eastern Orthodox Metropolitan bishopric of the Romanian Orthodox Church.Its canonical jurisdiction is the territory of the Republic of Moldova, and over the Moldovan and Romanian Orthodox diaspora from the former USSR.

27. Adulations Too My Beloved, My Husbandman, The Bishopric & Lover of My Soul & Spirit, Thee Eternal, Everlasting & Endless God, Yehovah-YHWH!! Indeed, I, The General Bishop Prophetess Elder Leslie’Maelene Burnett, DD – I, Am Excited About The Birth Celebration of The Only Begotten Son of My Beloved, (Yehovah-YHWH)!!

28. The Münster rebellion (German: Täuferreich von Münster, "Anabaptist dominion of Münster") was an attempt by radical Anabaptists to establish a communal sectarian government in the German city of Münster – then under the large Prince-Bishopric of Münster in the Holy Roman Empire.

29. Arzen (in Syriac Arzŏn or Arzŭn, Armenian Arzn, Ałzn, Arabic Arzan) was an ancient and medieval city, located on the border zone between Upper Mesopotamia and the Armenian Highlands.The site of the ancient Armenian capital of Tigranocerta, according to modern scholars, in Late Antiquity it was the capital of the district of Arzanene, a Syriac bishopric and a Sasanian Persian border fortress