The Menntaskólinn á Akureyri traces its roots to the ancient school in Hólar in Hjaltadalur valley, founded in the beginning of Jón Ögmundsson's episcopacy in 1130.
Rudolph de Landas Berghes took up residence at St. Dunstan's Abbey, Waukegan, Illinois and raised Abbot William H. F. Brothers to the episcopacy on October 3, 1916.
He served as the District Superintendent of the Los Angeles District and Dean of the Cabinet prior to being elected to the Episcopacy.
Prior to his election to the Episcopacy, Finger served for twelve years as President of Millsaps College (1952–1964) in Jackson, Mississippi, from which he had graduated before receiving his master of divinity degree from Yale Divinity School.
In an Appendix to his book The Bishopric - a handbook on creating episcopacy in the African-American Pentecostal Church, Bishop Ellis claims both western and eastern streams of "apostolic succession" for himself and for United Pentecostal Churches of Christ, as summarised below.
Ruston was ordained to the episcopacy as Bishop Suffragan of Pretoria, being sent to oversee the Archdeaconry of the North centred on Pietersburg (now Polokwane).
In 1102 Croatia joined personal union with Hungary and the Hungarians formed new territorial units called Župas; Modruš became the seat of one of these Župas and soon became the seat of the Krbava-Modruš episcopacy.
He came into prominence as a champion of the cause of the bishops in the Martin Marprelate controversy, and was denounced by those who attacked episcopacy.
On December 20, 1976, Pope Paul VI elevated Father Moreno to the Episcopacy of the Catholic Church, and on February 17, 1977, Bishop Moreno was consecrated by the late Cardinal Manning as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
In 1983, he was appointed pastor of St. Joseph's Church in Troy, Michigan, in which capacity he would serve until his elevation to the episcopacy.
In England, for example, various pamphleteers attacking the religious views of the Anglican episcopacy under William Laud, the Archbishop of Canterbury, had their ears cut off for those writings: in 1630 Dr. Alexander Leighton and in 1637 still other Puritans, John Bastwick, Henry Burton and William Prynne.
However, it wasn't until the episcopacy of Bishop Charles Caruana that the diocese secured a loan from the Government of Gibraltar to convert the small boxlike church, which suffered from water ingress at the time, into an aesthetically pleasing modern church with all the amenities.
According to Cosmas’s chronicle, Saint Adalbert of Prague in 994 offered his episcopal see to Strachkvas, explaining that Strachkvas came from the Přemyslids, and it would be easy for him to bend people to his will; but Strachkvas refused the episcopacy.
The foundation stone was laid on 21 May 1874 by the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, whose family had been so generous and loyal to Scottish Episcopacy over the previous hundred years.
He was made Financial Agent of Morris Harvey College, Barboursville, West Virginia (1914–15), being elected President of the college in 1915, where he served until his election to the Episcopacy.
Violet L. Fisher is a retired Bishop in The United Methodist Church, elected and consecrated to the Episcopacy in 2000.
Prior to his election to the Episcopacy, William served as Pastor of Aldersgate U.M.C., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (1963-69); St. Stephen's U.M.C., Norman, Oklahoma (1969-76); Crown Heights U.M.C., Oklahoma City (1976-83) and First U.M.C., Enid, Oklahoma (1983-88).