But our correspondent added that "a bishop is still a bishop" and it should be seen as a big moment for the church.
During a service at Lichfield Cathedral on Sunday the Bishop of Lichfield, Jonathan Gledhill, described the role as "the eyes and ears" of a bishop.
Garcia from the Calle 18 gang and Aristides Umanzor, aka "El Sirra, " from the Mara Salvatrucha - each backed up by 15 of their top lieutenants - sought out a Catholic bishop and a former leftist congressman to serve as mediators.
This month, representatives of many faiths, including a local Lutheran bishop and a shivering Buddhist monk gathered in Greenland to talk to scientists and ecologists.
This month, representatives of many faiths, including a local Lutheran bishop and a shivering Buddhist monk (see above) gathered in Greenland to talk to scientists and ecologists.
In the inevitable comparisons with his predecessor, Benedict XVI, some will point to the new pontiff's credentials as a local bishop, rather than a Vatican insider.
Likewise, a Catholic bishop might consider it a badge of honor to get an idea about religious education from the North American Jewish Day School Conference, or an insight into the broader culture from a novel written by an atheist.
"People tend to expect too much of their local bishop, " the man who has begun the search for a new Bishop of Blackburn has said.
Its members include Fernando Collor, a former president who resigned in 1992 while facing impeachment for corruption, and Marcelo Crivella, a bishop in the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, a Pentecostal outfit.
In a 1550 letter to a friendly bishop, Michelangelo complains that a long papal conclave has interrupted his work on the dome of St.
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Rasputin could fix church jobs, too: a word from him was enough to have a troublesome bishop dispatched to Siberia, or a tractable one promoted to Metropolitan.
Having been made a bishop in 1994, he was appointed Archbishop of Brasilia in 2004.
In all, four women claim they had babies by Lugo while he was a bishop.
Mr Crivella is a bishop in the church (he also has a career as a singer).
Centuries ago, fishermen would present a beribboned sturgeon for a bishop's blessing to boost their catch.
His resignation marks the end of more than 20 years as a bishop and archbishop.
By church law, the pope will remain a bishop when he steps down, according to Rev.
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Pope Gregory, recognized as the legitimate pope by the church, became a bishop and retired.
"To most people it's like replacing a bishop's mitre with a baseball cap, " says the iconoclastic billionaire.
He had only been a bishop for a year before his promotion to the top job was announced.
He said there would be great divisions in the Church if clergy in a civil partnership were appointed as a bishop.
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The Queen's Bentley failed to start following a Sandringham church service - until a bishop blessed the motor.
He was handed the pastoral staff, symbolizing a bishop's care for his flock.
In some instances the Pope may ask a bishop to remain in office.
The complainant, who is now married, says he resigned as a priest when Cardinal O'Brien was first made a bishop.
He had only been a bishop for just over a year when he was chosen to become Archbishop of Canterbury.
Among others, he called the Vatican, pretending to be Henry Kissinger, and managed to get a bishop on the line.
Archaeologists from the University of Glasgow have begun looking for traces of a bishop's palace in a Scottish Borders village.
It's the canonical crime of abortion, which Peters said more aptly applies to abortion providers, that would incur automatic excommunication and require a bishop's intervention.
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