Although the Bishop of Hippo was the oracle of the Church, and no one disputed his authority, it would seem that his characteristic doctrine,that of grace; the essential doctrine of Luther also,was never a favorite one with the great churchmen of the Middle Ages.

The first Bishop of Calcutta, the Rev. Thomas Fanshaw Middleton, D.D. was Vicar of St. Pancras.

The Bishop of Chichester is now at Windsor, the Lord and Groom and Equerry in waiting, two physicians, besides O'Reilly and Sir Wathen Waller and Knighton.

A worthy bishop is an ambassador from God unto man, in the midst of war to make a treaty of peace; who with a general pardon upon confession of sin, upon the fruit of repentance gives assurance of comfort.

Quoth he to himself, "Yon Bishop is overgaudy for a holy man.

The Bishop of Valence, a prelate of the house of Savoy, and maternal uncle to the queen, was his chief minister, and employed every art to amass wealth for himself and his relations.

It is true that the bishop is a great favourite with him also.

The bishops may have been good shepherds of their flocks, but the primary qualification for the office was, I imagine, the gift of aggressive political leadership.

Next day the priest of this church died, and a bishop with twelve monks came from the mountains to his funeral, for all the bishops of the Armenians are monks, and likewise most of those belonging to the Greeks .

Bishops, priests, and monks were, in their personal lives and in the councils of the Church, the first propagators of God's peace or truce, and in more than one locality they induced the laic lords to follow their lead.

Bishops in the Orthodox Church are compulsorily celibate, and the succession in Montenegro always descended from uncle to nephew.

Surely in a small community like Peking, where a Bishop in the pulpit was a rarity, the British Minister would have made it a point to hear him preachunless something very unusual had occurred.

In the time of Augustine there was only one form of the visible Church,there were no Protestants; and he naturally wished, like any bishop, to strengthen and establish its unity,a government of bishops, of which the bishop of Rome was the acknowledged head.

The bishop became a great worldly potentate, and the strictest union was formed between the Church and State.

Commerce and industry recovered confidence; business was developed; the increase of the revenues justified a diminution of taxation; war, which was imminent at the moment of the duke's fall, seemed to be escaped; the Bishop of Frejus became Cardinal Fleury; the court of Rome paid on the nail for the service rendered it by the new minister in freeing the clergy from the tax of the fiftieth (impot du cinquantieme).

Ecclesiastical jurisdiction derived also much temporal strength from the fact that practically every bishop was also a justice of the peace.

The present bishops will, indeed be no sufferers by such a bill; because, their ages considered, they cannot expect to see any great decrease in the value of money; or, at worst, they can make it up in the fines, which will probably be greater than usual, upon the change of leases into fee-farms, or lives; or without the power of obliging their tenants to a real half value.

In France or Germany the bishops were members of the great houses, and as powerful local rulers wielded a vast feudal authority.

Taken all in all, this eighteenth century bishop is a notable figure in literary annals.

The bishop is your near relative, of the house of Bourbon."

For Sirs being in the Greek [Greek: Kurioi], which is to say, in true and strict translation, Lords, what is more plain than, that of old, Episcopacy was not only the acknowledged Government; but that Bishops were formerly Peers of the Realm, and so ought to sit in the House of Lords!

The bishops of Utrecht, Liege, and Tournay, became, in the course of time, the chief personages on that line of the frontier.

Bailly, the coadjutor Roman Catholic bishop of Quebec, who had gone to England as French tutor to Carleton's children, was a most enlightened cleric.

If they are to realize their unity and their strength, they must do so not as members of a Parish, but of a Diocese; their Bishop must be to them the sign that they are one body; their good works must be organized more and more under him, and round him.

An unworthy bishop is the disgrace of learning, when the want of reading or the abuse of understanding, in the speech of error may beget idolatry.