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A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the Anglican churches, bishops claim apostolic succession, a direct historical lineage dating...

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506

9.10.506

The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.

1328

5.12.1328

Antipope Nicholas V, a claimant to the papacy, is consecrated in Rome by the Bishop of Venice.

1539

6.10.1539

Council of Trent: Paul III sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the Council due to war and the difficulty bishops had traveling to Venice.

1792

9.2.1792

During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic Church bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.

1871

9.20.1871

Bishop John Coleridge Patteson is martyred on the island of Nukapu, a Polynesian outlier island now in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands. He is the first bishop of Melanesia.

1886

3.1.1886

The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham.