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Pre- and post-Reformation Church of England bishops of the Diocese of Lichfield, with its seat at Lichfield Cathedral. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.
The Bishop of Dunkeld is the ecclesiastical head of the Diocese of Dunkeld, one of the largest and more important of Scotland's 13 medieval bishoprics, whose first recorded bishop is an early 12th-century cleric named Cormac. However, the first known abbot dates to the 10th century, and it is often assumed that in Scotland in the period before ...
Roger William Gries, OSB (born March 26, 1937) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.He is one of a few monastic priests to be named a bishop. Gries served as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Cleveland in Ohio from 2001 to 2013.
Elias Richard Lorenzo, O.S.B. (born October 6, 1960) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who has served as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Newark in New Jersey since 2020. [1] Lorenzo previously served as the abbot president of the American-Cassinese Congregation of Benedictine monasteries. [2]
Bust of Woods, by Jacob Epstein, in Lichfield Cathedral Memorial to Edward Sydney Woods in Lichfield Cathedral. Edward Sydney Woods (1 November 1877 – 11 January 1953) was an Anglican bishop, the second Bishop of Croydon (a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Southwark) from 1930 until 1937 and, from then until his death, the 94th Bishop of Lichfield.
A bishop is titled "Ang Mahál na Obispo" ("His Excellency, the Bishop"), in similar fashion to archbishops, and more commonly as "Ang Lubháng Kagalang-galang" ("The Most Reverend"). Also similar to archbishops, bishops are often addressed as "Bishop" followed by their names; for example, "Bishop Juan de la Cruz".
One strategy, presumably pioneered by Abbot William, was to shed the risks of demesne farming in favour of the secure income stream from leases: the abbey's Shropshire demesnes contracted from 21 carucates in 1291 to 12 in 1355. [99] In the early 1320s, Bishop Roger Northburgh carried out a canonical visitation and listed a number of failings. [95]
George Abbot (29 October 1562 – 4 August 1633) [1] [a] was an English bishop who was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1611 to 1633. [3] [5] [6] He also served as the fourth chancellor of the University of Dublin, from 1612 to 1633. [7] Chambers Biographical Dictionary describes him as "[a] sincere but narrow-minded Calvinist". [8]