Kim Hill (singer)

Kim Hill (born December 30, 1963) is a contemporary Christian music singer. Aside from her career as a Grammy Award-nominated and GMA Dove Award-winning solo artist, she has also sung background vocals on projects by other artists, such as Rich Mullins ("Winds of Heaven, Stuff of Earth").
Personal life.
Hill was raised in Meridian, Mississippi, later moving to Memphis, Tennessee. She attended Mississippi State where she participated in volleyball and track and field. She moved to Nashville, Tennessee after signing her first record deal with Sparrow Records.


Leila Sansour

Leila Sansour (, is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Open Bethlehem, a non-governmental foundation established to promote and protect the life and heritage of the city of Bethlehem. Sansour developed the Bethlehem Passport in partnership with the city council and governor of Bethlehem. Pope Benedict XVI became the first recipient of the Bethlehem passport when he accepted the "citizenship of Bethlehem" from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in December 2005.
Sansour is from an old Palestinian Roman Catholic family. She was born in Moscow, February 16, 1966, when her father, Anton, was teaching mathematics at Moscow State University. Leila Sansour and her family moved to the city of Bethlehem in 1973. Anton Sansour became one of the founders of the Bethlehem University, previously a Roman Catholic seminary.
Sansour is a film director who produced the film "Jeremy Hardy vs. the Israeli Army" [2003], following the British comedian Jeremy Hardy and his travails during the siege of Bethlehem in 2002. She began her film work in television and produced the series "Cultural Portraits" for Al Jazeera, featuring profiles of prominent Arabs who had made a significant world contribution in the arts, science or politics.
Sansour studied at the Sorbonne, Moscow State University and the University of Warwick. Her most recent work is the film and awareness campaign Open Bethlehem. The film has screened in festivals in the U.K., and toured Canada in September 2016, screening in Montreal, Vancouver, Toronto, and Edmonton. OPEN BETHLEHEM is an international campaign that works to promote global engagement with Bethlehem as a real and contemporary city in the Middle East. It does so by supporting the distribution of communication tools about Bethlehem to boost international interest and awareness and by promoting visits to Bethlehem through established and specialized tour operators. The campaign also works to develop a network of passionate ambassadors for the city through the Bethlehem Passport Program.


Robert de Den

Robert de Den († 1349) was a 14th-century bishop-elect of Dunkeld, Scotland. He had been the archdeacon of Dunkeld when, following the death of Bishop Richard de Pilmor, Robert was elected as the new bishop. The election took place on 28 January 1348. Robert was not to be consecrated, however, for unbeknown to the canons of Dunkeld, the pope had already reserved the see for his own appointment. Pope Clement VI appointed Donnchadh de Strathearn as bishop. Robert de Den died in 1349, probably at Rome.


Dominic Pozzoni

Dominic Pozzoni, (22 December 1861 – 20 February 1924), was born in Italy. He was ordained a priest on 1 March 1885 and arrived in Hong Kong on 19 December 1885. Pozzoni was appointed Bishop of Tavia and third Apostolic Vicar of Hong Kong on 12 July 1905. He died in Hong Kong.


Nicholas Fernando

Nicholas Marcus Fernando (6 December 1932 – 10 April 2020) was a Sri Lankan Roman Catholic archbishop.
Fernando was born in Negombo Sri Lanka and was ordained to the priesthood in 1959. He served as archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Colombo, Sri Lanka, from 1977 until 2002.


Vladimiro Boric Crnosija

Vladimiro Boric Crnosija (born 23 April 1905 in Punta Arenas – 29 August 1973) was a Chilean clergyman and bishop for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Punta Arenas. He became ordained in 1930. He was appointed bishop in 1949. He died on 29 August 1973, at the age of 68.


Emmanuel Adekola

Emmanuel Adeoye Adekola is an Anglican bishop in Nigeria: he is the current Bishop of Igbomina
in the Anglican Province of Kwara.
He was consecrated as Bishop of Igbomina at the Cathedral Church of St. James the Great, Oke-Bola, Ibadan, on 30 July 2017.


John Mulagada

John Mulagada (12 December 1937 – 16 August 2009) was the Indian Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Eluru, India. Ordained to the priesthood on 4 January 1965, Pope Paul VI appointed Mulagada the first bishop of the newly created Eluru Diocese and he was ordained Bishop on 5 May 1977. Bishop Mulagada was the first Dalit to become bishop in India.


Frederick Goldie

Frederick Goldie (1 September 1914 – 23 October 1980) was a Scottish Anglican bishop.
Early life and education.
Goldie was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on 1 September 1914, the son of John and Maria Goldie. He was educated at Hatfield College, Durham, from where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree and a Licentiate of Theology in 1938 and a Master of Arts in 1946. He also studied at the Edinburgh Theological College between 1934 and 1938. He then studied at the New College, Edinburgh of the University of Edinburgh, from where he graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity in 1939.
Ordained ministry.
Goldie was ordained deacon in 1938 and priest in 1939 by the Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway. He served as a curate at the Good Shepherd Church in Hillington between 1938 and 1946, after which he became rector of the same church, remaining there until 1949. Between 1944 and 1946, he also served as priest-in-charge of Ascension Church in Glasgow. In 1949, he was appointed rector of St Augustine's Church in Dumbarton. He was a lecturer at the Edinburgh Theological College from 1940 until 1963. In 1963, he became Dean of Glasgow and Galloway, and subsequently rector of St Margaret's Church, until 1974.
Bishop.
In 1974, he was elected Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway and was consecrated on 22 November 1974 at St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow.
A noted ecclesiastical historian, he died in post.


Vincent Valentine Ezeonyia

Vincent Valentine Eguchukwu Ezeonyia (5 April 1941 – 8 February 2015) was a Roman Catholic bishop.
Ordained to the priesthood in 1968, Ezeonyia was appointed the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Aba, Nigeria in 1990. He died while still in office.


Lavinia Byrne

Lavinia Byrne (born 1947 in Birmingham) is a former nun who in 2000 left the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a Roman Catholic religious institute, after 35 years, saying that the Vatican had been bullying her to abandon support for women priests. Her 1993 book "Woman at the Altar" () outlined her arguments for women priests, and she also wrote about contraception. Despite her criticism of the Vatican's treatment, she spoke out positively about Pope John Paul II after his death.
Lavinia currently (2012) leads tours to Anatolia and the Samarkand on behalf of Jon Baines Tours.
Her great-uncle, J. F. Byrne, captained Warwickshire in first-class cricket and was full back of the England rugby union team.


Antonio de Ciudad Rodrigo

Fray Antonio de Ciudad Rodrigo (also Antonio Civitatencis) was a Franciscan friar. He was one of the first twelve to come to New Spain in 1524, and the second provincial of the province of the Holy Gospel.


Inayat Bunglawala

Inayat Bunglawala was media secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain until 2010.
He joined The Young Muslims UK in 1987. He is also a co-presenter of the weekly 'Politics and Media Show' on the Islam Channel (SKY 813). In October 2009 he registered the domain name Muslims4UK.org.uk, thus launching a group which is described as "set up to celebrate the UK's democratic traditions and promote active Muslim engagement in our society".
Work.
Some of Bunglawala's views as media secretary for the Muslim Council of Britain were quoted in the press. He has discussed matters of religion as well as politics.
Tackling extremism together.
Despite accusations of anti-Semitism, Bunglawala was selected as one of seven "conveners" of a Home Office task force with responsibilities for tackling extremism among young Muslims. He rejects these accusations as a "traditional Zionist tactic" aimed to "silence critics of Israel", as he is an outspoken defender of what he considers to be Israeli oppression of Palestinians. Home Secretary Charles Clarke said in response: "I am grateful to the working groups for drawing up such constructive ideas. We look forward to continuing the dialogue with Muslim communities and supporting the work that they are undertaking.”
Political views.
Bunglawala has commented that many Muslims believed the UK's involvement in wars against Afghanistan and Iraq were a "key contributory factor in the radicalisation" of some young Muslims, but added: "extremists often paint a very unfair picture of the West. We all benefit from freedoms and opportunities here that are not exactly plentiful in many Muslim countries."
He has been a critic of US foreign policy, saying: "The US government needs to demonstrate that it is prepared to be more even-handed in its relations with Muslims and Muslim countries." Regarding the torture of Iraqis at Abu Ghraib by US soldiers, he said: "I think this type of activity by U.S. forces will only further anger the Muslim population of Iraq."
Controversies.
He opposed the banning of Hizb ut-Tahrir under the UK anti-terror laws. Bunglawala considers Ahmed Yassin to be an important Islamic scholar and he opposes the Muslim Association of Britain's removal from the Muslim Council.
In January 1993, Bunglawala wrote a letter to "Private Eye", a satirical magazine, in which he called Omar Abdel-Rahman "courageous". After Rahman's arrest on charges of masterminding the bombing of the World Trade Center in New York in July that year, Bunglawala guessed that it was only because of his "calling on Muslims to fulfil their duty to Allah and to fight against oppression and oppressors everywhere". Five months before the September 11, 2001 attacks, Bunglawala also circulated writings of Osama bin Laden, whom he called a "freedom fighter", to hundreds of Muslims in Britain.


Louis Brisson

Louis Brisson (23 June 1817 – 2 February 1908) was a French Roman Catholic priest and the founder of both the Oblate Sisters of Saint Francis de Sales and the Oblates of Saint Francis de Sales. He founded the female branch alongside Léonie Aviat and the male branch alongside the Servant of God Thérèse Chappuis. Brisson's founding of the orders stemmed from his desire to improve the working conditions of middle-class girls and to ensure their protection and the promotion of their faith.
His beatification received approval from Pope Benedict XVI and it was celebrated in France on 22 September 2012.
Life.
Louis Alexander Alphonse Brisson was born on 23 June 1817 in Aube as the sole child to Toussaint Grégoire Brisson (1785–1875) and Savine Corrard (1795–1881); he was baptized "Louis Alexandre Sosthène" on 29 June in the village parish church.
He received his initial education at home from his parents and the local priest and while being schooled from 1823-31 became interested in the natural sciences. He made his First Communion on 22 March 1829 and that June received his Confirmation.
He desired to become a priest and studied for it from 1831-35 before the reception of the tonsure on 13 July 1835. He continued his studies from 1836-40 before being given the minor orders on 6 July 1838. He was made a sub-deacon in Sens on 25 May 1839 as his own bishop could not do it due to illness. Brisson was elevated into the diaconate on 21 December 1839.
He received his ordination on 18 December 1840 and celebrated his first Mass on 22 December. He received his ordination from Bishop Marie-Joseph-François-Victor Monyer de Prilly because the bishop of his diocese was ill and could not ordain him. On 1 October 1843 he was appointed as the spiritual director for the convent of the Visitation Sisters and did this at the request of the convent's superior Venerable Thérèse Chappuis. The Superior was convinced that Brisson would be the priest to establish a religious order of men in the spirit of Francis de Sales. Chappuis soon managed to convince Brisson to establish an order to that design despite the fact that the priest was not enthusiastic about it. In addition to his activities as a priest he served as a teacher to seminarians and continued his interest in natural sciences; this passion saw him construct an astronomical clock used at the motherhouse of the Oblate Sisters of Saint Francis de Sales.
Brisson became concerned with the welfare of the working class girls in the textile mills and so established shelters where those girls could become women of conscience and faith. In 1866 he co-founded (alongside Léonie Aviat) the Oblate Sisters of Saint Francis de Sales to provide for their education; and in August 1875 established the Oblates of Saint Francis de Sales for priests and religious brothers performing similar apostolate work.
Father Brisson met Pope Leo XIII on 6 November 1881 who encouraged his work and encouraged him to send Oblates into the missions. The 1905 legislation on Church-State relations and complete secularization of France saw the secularization of the religious houses which included exiling the occupants. The Oblates of Saint Francis de Sales transferred their General House near Rome but Brisson returned to his birthplace.
Brisson soon became ill due to his advanced age and his condition deteriorated more so after collapsing on 16 January 1908. He was no longer able to receive the Eucharist as of 23 January and was confined to his bed. He lost his speech on 28 January. Léonie Aviat learned of his dire condition from her fellow religious and rushed to his bedside after receiving a formal telegram. The nun was at his bedside for the next fortnight until 2 February 1908 when Brisson died at 10:34am and she attended the funeral on 6 February in which he was buried in his parents' tomb. His remains were later relocated on 10 April 1961 and entombed on 11 April.
Beatification.
The informative process for the beatification opened on 11 February 1938 and this was later finished on 15 December 1949. His spiritual writings received theological approval on 1 March 1955. The documentation accumulated from these two processes were sent to the Congregation for Rites but were held in Rome until 6 October 1995 when the Congregation for the Causes of Saints validated both processes via a decree. The Positio came to the C.C.S. in 1998 while theologians approved it on 25 November 2005 as did the C.C.S. later on 29 September 2009. Pope Benedict XVI titled Brisson as Venerable on 19 December 2009 after issuing a decree that recognized the late priest lived a model life of heroic virtue according to the cardinal and theological virtues.
The miracle for beatification was investigated in Guayaquil from 20 June 1981 until 27 July 1981 but did not receive formal validation from the C.C.S. until 7 March 2008 at which point a medical panel of experts approved the miracle on 10 February 2011. Theologians likewise approved it on 7 June 2011 as did the C.C.S. members on 13 December 2011. Benedict XVI approved this healing to be a legitimate miracle on 19 December 2011 and thus approved that Brisson would be beatified. Cardinal Angelo Amato presided over the beatification on 22 September 2012 on the pope's behalf; more than 3000 people attended the service with 1500 people watching it on television screens in Brisson's birthplace.
The current postulator for this cause is Madeleine-Thérèse Dechambre.


Alicja Kotowska

Alicja Jadwiga Kotowska (born November 20, 1899 in Warsaw – died November 11, 1939 near Piaśnica Wielka) was a Polish nun, head of the Resurrectionist convent in Wejherowo between 1934 and 1939, and a blessed of the Roman Catholic Church and a martyr killed by the Germans in 1939 in the Mass murders in Piaśnica.
She was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 13 June 1999 as one of the 108 Polish Martyrs of World War II.


Ola M. Steinholt

Ola Markus Steinholt (4 October 1934—20 April 2009) was a Norwegian bishop in the Church of Norway.
He was born in Trondenes, Norway in 1934. He graduated from the University of Oslo with the cand.theol. degree in 1959. He was a parish priest in Vefsn starting in 1971, after having been a military chaplain for some time. He served as dean in Tromsø Cathedral from 1984 to 1990 and bishop of the Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland from 1990 to 2001. He died in April 2009 in Tromsø, Norway.


Luther Monument (Worms)

The Luther Monument () is a group of statues that was erected in Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, to commemorate the Protestant reformer Martin Luther. It was designed and partly made by Ernst Rietschel, and unveiled on 25 June 1868. The monument consists of a group of bronze statues on stone plinths centred on a statue of Luther, surrounded by statues of related individuals and allegorical statues representing related towns. The elements are arranged in the shape of a castle, recalling Luther's hymn "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" ("A Mighty Fortress Is Our God"). It is one of the largest Luther Monuments, and shaped views of the reformer. Copies of the central Luther statue are located in Europe and the United States, including the Luther Monument in Washington, D.C. (1884).
History.
Plans to build a significant monument to Martin Luther in Worms were already made in the 18th century. In 1856, an association, the Luther-Denkmal-Verein, was formed, which pursued the idea and collected donations from Europe and the Americas. Among the historical topics remembered by the monument are Luther's Ninety-five Theses of 1517 and his appearance at the Diet of Worms in 1521, where he defended his theses facing Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. The main high bronze statue of Luther is surrounded by eleven others depicting other reformers, political figures, and personified related towns. The statues are mounted on separate stone plinths on a stepped base, and the overall shape of the monument is intended to resemble a castle, representing Luther's hymn "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" (A firm castle is our God).
Ernst Rietschel designed the group in 1859. He completed the sculptures of Luther and John Wycliff but died in 1861. The other statues were mostly executed by his pupils. Adolf von Donndorf contributed standing figures of Reuchlin and Frederick the Wise of Saxony, seated figures of Girolamo Savonarola, Peter Waldo and an allegorical statue (with mural crown) representing the town of Magdeburg grieving after the Sack of Magdeburg in 1631, as well as reliefs. Johannes Schilling created a statue for the town of Speyer, the location of the Protestation at Speyer in 1539. made statues of Jan Hus, Philipp Melanchthon, Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse, and one for the town of Augsburg, where the Augsburg Confession was first presented in 1530. The architect Georg Hermann Nicolai, a pupil of Gottfried Semper, was also involved. The monument was cast at the .
Luther is depicted in the robe of preacher, not the habit and cowl of a monk. He is holding a Bible in his left hand, and rests his right fist upon the book. According to Hans A. Pohlsander, "his posture suggests courage and determination".
In addition to the main statues, the monument has inscriptions with quotations, scenes from Luther's life, coats of arms of 27 Protestant towns, and bronze relief sculptures depicting two Electors of Saxony, with others including Justus Jonas, Johann Bugenhagen, Johannes Calvin and Ulrich Zwingli.
The monument was unveiled on 25 June 1868 in a ceremony attended by around 20,000 people, including nobility and leading German Protestants. Rietschel's statue of Luther became a typical image of the reformer in the late 19th century and became a model for many monuments to him, with copies in Europe and the United States, such as the Luther Monument in Washington, D.C. (1884), and others at the Concordia Lutheran Seminary in St. Louis (1903), in Decorah, Iowa (1911), Saint Paul, Minnesota (1921), Dubuque, Iowa (1923), and Detroit (1930). The 150th anniversary of the monument was celebrated as a major event in 2018.


Apostolic Nunciature to Moldova

The Apostolic Nunciature to Moldova provides for the representation of the Holy See to the Government of Moldova.


Jean Kockerols

Jean Kockerols (born 13 August 1958 in Brecht, Belgium) is a Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in Belgium.
Kockerols was ordained a priest on 18 September 1993 and was later the Dean of Brussels-South. He was appointed auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussel and titular bishop of Ypres by Pope Benedict XVI on 22 February 2011 and consecrated on 3 April 2011.


Edwards Cust

Edwards Cust (born Sedburgh 2 September 1804died Northallerton 5 July 1895) was Archdeacon of Richmond from 1868 until 1894.
Cust was educated at St John's College, Cambridge. He held livings at Danby Wiske, Yafforth and Hutton Bonville.


William Clifford (priest)

William Clifford (alias Mansell) (died 30 April 1670) was an English Roman Catholic theologian.
Life.
After education and ordination at Douai, Clifford went on the English mission. As vice-president, he helped the English College, Lisbon through difficult times, and became superior of Tournay College (Paris), assigned by Cardinal Richelieu to the English clergy.
He evaded being made bishop in 1660, declined in 1670 the presidency of Douai, and closed his life in the Hôpital des Incurables in Paris.
Works.
Clifford's works are:
Family.
He was the son of Henry Clifford and wife Elizabeth Thimelby. After the death of his father, Clifford's mother joined the English Augustinian nuns in Leuven. She died at aged 77 on 3 September 1642.
Clifford never asserted his right to the Barony of Cumberland.


Niels Glob

Niels Glob was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Viborg (1478–1498).
Biography.
On 20 November 1478, Niels Glob was appointed during the papacy of Pope Sixtus IV as Bishop of Viborg. He served as Bishop of Viborg until his death in 1498.


Joseph Fiametta

Joseph ben Solomon Fiametta (died 1721) was an Italian rabbi at Ancona.
He was the father-in-law of Samson Morpurgo, rabbi of Ancona. He wrote: "Widdui," atonement prayers of the Italian rite, included in the "Tik ḳun Shobabim" of Moses Zacuto, Venice, 1712; "Or Boḳer," containing prayers and seliḥot, Venice, 1709. He wrote also an approbation to Nehemiah Ḥayun's "'Oz le-Elohim," Berlin, 1713, and a panegyric poem on Abraham Cohen's "Kehunnat Abraham," Venice, 1719.
Among the Italian "responsa" there is one regarding communal taxation signed by Shabbethai Panzieri and Joseph Fiametta.


Shurland

Shurland is a place near Eastchurch, Isle of Sheppey, Kent, England. Shurland Hall stood here and was visited by Henry VIII of England and used during World War I for billeting.


Raymond Eid

Raymond Eid (born August 6, 1930 in Mazraat el Daher, Lebanon - died on June 11, 2012) was the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Damascus, Syria.
Life.
Ordained to the priesthood on 30 May 1957 to the Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Sidon, Eid was elected Archbishop of the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Damascus on 5 June 1999 by the Maronite Synod.
Maronite Patriarch of Antioch, Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, gave him on November 20 of the same year the episcopal ordination. His co-consecrators were Tanios El Khoury, Eparch of Sidon, and Emile Eid, Vice-President of the Commission for the codification of the Eastern Churches' law.
He retired on 25 September 2005. and in 2006 Pope Benedict XVI accepted his age-related withdrawal.


Petrus Katich

Petrus Katich or Petrus Catich (1563–1622) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Prizren (1618–1622).
Biography.
Petrus Katich was born in Sibenico (now Šibenik, Croatia) in 1563.
On 12 Feb 1618, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Paul V as Bishop of Prizren.
On 24 Feb 1618, he was consecrated bishop by Giovanni Garzia Mellini, Cardinal-Priest of Santi Quattro Coronati, with Marinus Bizzius (Bici), Archbishop of Bar, and Gavino Manca de Cedrelles, Archbishop of Sassari,
serving as co-consecrators.
He served as Bishop of Prizren until his death in Mar 1622.


Alexia Kelley

Alexia Kelley is the president and CEO of FADICA (Foundations and Donors Interested in Catholic Activities). Prior to that appointment, she was deputy director and senior advisor in the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, as well as former director of the Department of Health and Human Services' Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. She was the principal founder and executive director of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good.
Education and career.
Kelley graduated with a B.A. in Religion with honors from Haverford College in 1989. Her thesis focused on the writings and speeches of the Quaker abolitionist and suffragist Lucretia Mott. After college, she worked at the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) in Washington, D.C., a Quaker social justice lobby and one of the oldest ecumenical lobby organizations in the United States. From there, she attended Harvard Divinity School, graduating in 1993 with a Master of Theological Studies.
Following graduate school, Kelley worked for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, a national Catholic anti-poverty initiative, for nearly a decade. During her tenure at CCHD, Kelley co-edited "Living the Catholic Social Tradition: Cases and Commentary" with Dr. Kathleen Maas Weigert. The book profiles community organizing projects across the country that had received support from CCHD, and it explores the principles of the Catholic social tradition that undergird support and participation in such projects.
Following her tenure at CCHD, Kelley worked for three years at Environmental Resources Trust (ERT), a business unit of the non-profit organization Winrock International dedicated to promoting renewable energy development and climate change mitigation. There she worked on renewable energy policy and development projects, including a partnership between ERT and Verdant Power.
In the fall of 2004, she took a leave from ERT from to serve as religious outreach director for the Democratic National Committee on the John Kerry campaign. She assisted in outreach to faith communities for the Kerry campaign. In 2005, she co-founded Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, a faith-based organization that works to promote the Catholic social justice tradition and Catholic support for social justice issues such as health care reform, economic justice, peace, and labor rights.
Kelley co-authored "A Nation for All: How the Catholic Vision of the Common Good Can Save America from the Politics of Division" with Catholics United director Chris Korzen. The book, published in July 2008, reintroduced the concept of the common good into the national dialogue on faith and politics, as both a uniquely Catholic and American principle.


Edward Parry (prelate)

Father Edward Parry S.J. (1862 – May 1922) was the second Prefect of the Prefecture Apostolic of Zambese. He was appointed in January 1920 and served until his death in 1922. (Before it was a Prefecture Apostolic, he was its Superior from 1911 to 1915.)


Karl Ludwig Nitzsch

Karl Ludwig Nitzsch (6 August 1751 – 5 December 1831) was a German theologian, a professor of theology since 1790.
Nitzsch was born in Wittenberg, where he studied from 1770 to 1775. He later served as a pastor in the towns of Beucha (from 1781) and Borna (from 1785). In 1788 he became a superintendent and consistorial assessor in Zeitz. In 1790 he obtained his doctorate in theology and during the same year became a professor at the University of Wittenberg. He was married to Louise Wernsdorf, the daughter of German rhetorician Johann Christian Wernsdorf. He died in his home city of Wittenberg.
Like his son, the better-known Karl Immanuel Nitzsch, he earned some distinction in the theological world by a number of writings, including a work entitled "De discrimine revelationis imperaboriae et didacticae prolusiones academicae" (2 volumes, 1830). Theologically, he represented a combination of supernaturalism and rationalism (supernatural rationalism or a Kantian rational supernaturalism).
In addition to the aforementioned work, he was the author of:


Ladislao Dentice

Ladislao Dentice (1427–1476) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Montemarano (1465–1476) and Bishop of Lucera (1450–1476).
Biography.
Ladislao Dentice was born in 1427.
On 1 Jul 1450, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Nicholas V as Bishop of Lucera.
On 7 Oct 1465, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Paul II as Bishop of Montemarano.
He served as Bishop of Montemarano and Bishop of Lucera until his death in 1476.


Fabio Arcella

Fabio Arcella (died 1560) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Capua (1549–1560), Bishop of Policastro (1537–1542), Bishop of Bisignano (1530–1535), and Apostolic Nuncio to Naples (1529–1530 and 1535–1537).
Biography.
Fabio Arcella was born in Naples, Italy towards the end of the 15th century.
In 1528, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Clement VII as Apostolic Nuncio to Naples.
On 24 Jan 1530, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Clement VII as Bishop of Bisignano.
In 1535, he was recalled to Rome and again named Apostolic Nuncio to Naples.
On 5 Mar 1537, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Paul III as Bishop of Policastro.
He resigned in 1542 and returned to Naples where he again represented the Vatican although without the formal designation as Nuncio.
On 18 Jan 1549, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Paul III as Archbishop of Capua.
He served as Archbishop of Capua until his death in 1560.


Diogo Reesink

Diogo Johannes Antonius Reesink (28 July 1934 – 30 May 2019) was a Brazilian-Dutch Roman Catholic bishop.
Reesing was born in the Netherlands and was ordained to the priesthood in 1962. He served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Almenara, Brazil, from 1989 to 1998. He then served as the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Teófilo Otoni, Brazil, from 1998 to 2009


Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle

Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (20 August 151721 September 1586), Comte de La Baume Saint Amour, was a Bisontin (Free Imperial City of Besançon) statesman, made a cardinal, who followed his father as a leading minister of the Spanish Habsburgs, and was one of the most influential European politicians during the time which immediately followed the appearance of Protestantism in Europe; "the dominating Imperial statesman of the whole century".
He was also a notable art collector, the "greatest private collector of his time, the friend and patron of Titian and Leoni and many other artists".
Biography.
He was born in the Free Imperial City of Besançon, now in France, then a self-governing city surrounded by the Imperial territory of the County of Burgundy (Franche-Comté). His father, Nicholas Perrenot de Granvelle (1484–1550), afterwards became chancellor of the empire under Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, held an influential position in the Netherlands, and from 1530 until his death he was one of the emperor's most trusted advisers in Germany. On the completion of his studies in law at Padua and in divinity at Leuven, Antoine held a canonry at Besançon, nowadays in eastern France, then was promoted to the bishopric of Arras with a dispensation due to his age of barely twenty-three (1540). He was ordained into the priesthood in 1540.
In his episcopal capacity he attended several diets of the empire, as well as the opening meetings of the Council of Trent, which he addressed on behalf of Charles V. The influence of his father, now chancellor, led to Granvelle being entrusted with many difficult and delicate pieces of public business. In the execution of these tasks he developed a talent for diplomacy, while at the same time acquiring an intimate acquaintance with most of the currents of European politics. He was involved in the settlement of the terms of peace after the defeat of the Schmalkaldic League at the Battle of Mühlberg in 1547, a settlement in which, to say the least, some particularly sharp practice was exhibited. In 1550, he succeeded his father in the office of secretary of state; in this capacity he attended Charles in the war with Maurice of Saxony, accompanied him in the flight from Innsbruck, and afterwards drew up the Peace of Passau (August 1552).
In the following year he and Simon Renard, the ambassador of Charles V to the Queen Mary I of England, conducted the negotiations for the marriage of Mary and Philip II of Spain. It was to Philip in 1555, on the abdication of the emperor, that Granvelle transferred his services, and by whom he was employed in the Netherlands. In April 1559 Granvelle was one of the Spanish commissioners who arranged the Peace of Cateau Cambrésis, and on Philip's withdrawal from the Netherlands in August of the same year he was surreptitiously appointed chief councillor to the regent Margaret of Parma. The policy of repression which in this capacity he pursued during the next five years secured for him many tangible rewards: in 1560 he was elevated to the archepiscopal see of Mechelen, and in 1561 he became a cardinal; but the growing hostility of a people whose religious convictions he had set himself to oppose ultimately made it impossible for him to continue in the Netherlands; and on the advice of his royal master he retired to Franche-Comté in March 1564.
After a visit to Rome in 1565; in November 1566 he was appointed as member of the Congregation of "Principi", the centre of the Papal States' foreign policy, by Pope Pius V. In 1570, Granvelle, at the request of Philip, helped to arrange the alliance between the Papacy, Venice and Spain against the Turks, an alliance which was responsible for the victory of Lepanto the next year. In the same year he became viceroy of Naples, a post of some difficulty and danger, which for five years he occupied with ability and success. He was summoned to Madrid in 1575 by Philip II to be president of the council for Italian affairs. Among the more delicate negotiations of his later years were those of 1580, which had for their object the ultimate union of the crowns of Spain and Portugal, and those of 1584, which resulted in a check to France by the marriage of the Spanish infanta Catherine to Charles Emmanuel I of Savoy. In the same year he was made archbishop of Besançon, but meanwhile he had been stricken with a lingering disease; he was never enthroned, but died at Madrid in 1586. His body was taken to Besançon Cathedral, where his father had been buried. His tomb is in Mechelen cathedral.
Collector of art.
Granvelle had a famous art collection, which partly featured the favourite artists of his Habsburg patrons, such as Titian and Leone Leoni, but also included a number of works by Pieter Bruegel, as well as a significant collection inherited from his father. Bruegel's friend, the sculptor Jacques Jonghelinck (brother of Bruegel's biggest patron) had a studio in Granvelle's palace in Brussels. Whilst in the Netherlands, he "discovered" Antonis Mor and introduced him to the Madrid court, and he also patronised Giambologna and arranged his first visit to Italy. At his death the collection was inherited by his nephew, who was pressured by Rudolf II, the very acquisitive Austrian Habsburg Emperor, to sell the finest pieces to him, which in 1597 he very reluctantly did, protesting that the price offered for thirty-three works was not enough even for six, and less than he had recently refused from Cardinal Farnese for Dürer's "Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand" alone. The arrangements were handled by Hans von Aachen. Most of these pieces are now in Vienna or Madrid, including Titian's "Venus with an Organ-player", Giambologna's copy of the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, tapestries after cartoons by Hieronymus Bosch and a bust of Charles V by Leoni.
Though he was painted by Titian and Mor, more famous than any portrait of Granvelle himself is the portrait of his dwarf and his mastiff by Mor, now at the Musée du Louvre. which perhaps initiated the Spanish tradition of portraits of court dwarfs. The Flemish Renaissance humanist Justus Lipsius was Granvelle's secretary for a period in Rome. He also corresponded with the composers Lassus and Adrian Willaert He had a magnificent library, some of which remains at Besançon.


Bernt Theodor Anker

Bernt Theodor Anker (7 March 1867 – 21 August 1943) was a Norwegian linguist, priest and author. Anker was one of the first priests to use Nynorsk from the pulpit, and was a strong proponent of Nynorsk in the church and in society.
He was born in Vestre Aker and grew up in Bergen and in Risor, where his father was the customs inspector from 1877. He attended the Latin school in Drammen during 1884. Anker finished his Cand.theol. at the University of Oslo in 1890, where he had studied theology, comparative studies, and politics. Anker worked as a priest and teacher throughout his professional life. He first served as a sexton in Arendal from 1890-93 followed be assignments as parish priest in Søndeled, Kviteseid and Lårdal. He finished his career as provost of Hardanger og Voss prosti in Hordaland.
Theologically, he was strongly influenced by the writing of N. F. S. Grundtvig and became involved in Grundtvigianism. He was also active in youth work throughout his life. He translated four historical books and four prophetical books of the Old Testament for the first translation of the Holy Bible into Nynorsk in 1921. One of his hymns appears in "Norsk Salmebok", the hymnal of the Church of Norway.


Albert Evans-Jones

Sir (Albert) Cynan Evans-Jones CBE (14 April 1895 – 26 January 1970), more commonly known within Wales by his bardic name of Cynan, was a Welsh war poet and dramatist.
Early life.
Cynan was born in Pwllheli, the son of Richard Albert Jones and Hannah Jane (née Evans) his father was the proprietor of the Central Restaurant in Penlan Street, Pwllheli. He was educated at Pwllheli Grammar School and the University College of North Wales at Bangor, where he graduated in 1916.
First World War.
On graduation Cynan joined the Welsh Student Company of the RAMC, serving in Salonika and France, initially as an ambulance man and then as the company's military chaplain. His wartime experience had a profound effect on his poetic works, to such an extent that Alan Llwyd claims that Cynan, not Hedd Wyn, is the premier Welsh war poet of the First World War. Hedd Wyn's poems relating to the war were written before he had enlisted and he was killed before he could recount his experience of the war in his muse. Cynan, however, gives the best descriptions of the gritty atrocities of war, and the impact of war on a man's body as well as his spirit.
Post war Career.
After the war, Cynan entered college in Pwllheli to train for the ministry of The Presbyterian Church of Wales. He was ordained at Penmaenmawr Caernarfonshire in 1920 where he served as minister until 1931 when he relinquished his calling having been appointed a tutor in the Extramural Department of the University College of North Wales specialising in Drama and Welsh Literature. Despite having given up his ministry Cynan continued to accept regular preaching engagements, and was one of the most popular preachers of his day on the nonconformist preaching circuit in Wales.
Whilst working in the University, Cynan lived in Menai Bridge, Anglesey, but in his best known poem he expressed a wish to retire to Aberdaron, Caernarfonshire,
Drama.
Apart from being an important figure in Welsh poetic circles Cynan was also influential in the field of Welsh drama. He wrote two full-length plays: "Hywel Harris" won the premier Eisteddfod prize for drama in 1931. He was commissioned to write an exemplary play for the National Eisteddfod in 1957 – his offering "Absolom Fy Mab" was accepted to great critical acclaim in Welsh dramatic circles as were his translations of English Language plays John Masefield's Good Friday and Norman Nicholson's The Old Man of the Mountain.
In 1931 he was appointed Reader of Welsh plays on behalf of the Lord Chamberlain, a post which he held till the abolition of censorship in 1968. He was seen as a liberal censor, having allowed James Kitchener Davies' drama "Cwm Glo", a play full of "filth and depravation" to be performed after it won the drama prize in the 1934 Eisteddfod.
Cynan made regular appearances on Welsh language radio and TV programmes, and he was the subject of the first Colour TV programme broadcast in the Welsh Language "Llanc o Lŷn".
National Eisteddfod.
Cynan is best known for his huge influence in the modernisation of the National Eisteddfod. He was Archdruid twice, the only person to have been elected to the position for a second term. His two terms were from 1950 till 1954 and from 1963 till 1966. He was the Recorder of the Gorsedd of Bards in 1935, and joint-secretary of the National Eisteddfod Council in 1937. He was the First Archdruid to accept that the Gorsedd was an 18th-century invention by Iolo Morganwg and that it had no links to Welsh mythology or to the ancient Druids, thus healing rifts between the academic and ecclesiastical establishments and the Eisteddfod movement.
Cynan is also responsible for designing the modern ceremonies of the Crowning and the Chairing of the Bard in the Eisteddfod as they are now performed, by creating ceremonies which, he thought, better reflected the Christian beliefs of the Welsh people.
Cynan was also prominent as a National Eisteddfod competitor. He won the Bardic Crown in 1921 at the Caernarfon National Eisteddfod for his poem "Mab y Bwthyn" ("A Cottage Son"), which recounted his experiences in the Great War. He won the Crown for his poem "Yr Ynys Unig" ("The Lonely Isle") in the Mold Eisteddfod of 1923; his third crowned poem, "Y Dyrfa / The Crowd" ( Bangor 1931 ), described a rugby match - the first time such a topic was attempted in Welsh poetry. To add to his three crowns Cynan was also awarded the Bardic Chair in 1924 for a poem "I'r Duw nid adwaenir" ("To the Unknown God"), which is the only time that the Chair has been awarded for an awdl that was not written according to the rules of Cynghanedd.
Cynan also adjudicated many times at the National Eisteddfod.
Honours.
Cynan was awarded the honorary degree of D.Litt. by the University of Wales in 1961.
He was awarded the freedom of the borough of Pwllheli in 1963.
He was appointed C.B.E. in 1949, and knighted in the Investiture honours of 1969.
Marriage.
Cynan was married twice: first, in 1921, to Ellen J. Jones of Pwllheli; they had one son and one daughter. Ellen died in 1962. In 1963 he married Menna Meirion Jones of Valley, Anglesey.
Death and Burial.
Cynan died on 26 January 1970 and was buried in the yard of St Tysilio's Church, Menai Bridge, Church Island, Menai Strait, Anglesey.


Selim Matar

Selim Matar, writer, novelist and sociologist with Swiss and Iraqi nationalities, was born in Bagdad and resides currently in Geneva. He is founder of the movement known as “Identity of the Iraqi Nation”, chief editor of the trimestral journal Mesopotamie, as well as author of Woman of the Flask, a well known novel in the Arabic-speaking world.
Biography.
Selim Matar was born in 1956 in a family that immigrated to Baghdad from the south of Iraq. He becomes member of the Iraqi communist party and leaves his country at the end of 1978, after the failure of what is known as the “national confrontation” between the ruling party Baas and the communists. After three years of ceaseless wanderings in the Middle-East, he finally settles down in Geneva at the end of 1981. He studied at the Graduate Institute of Development Studies, specializing in social sciences and research in the Third World.
The conception of national identity and that of the Iraqi nation.
In Switzerland, Selim Matar distanced himself from communism from two points: its internationalist and economic mode of thinking, which disregards national identity and cultural factors, and the materialist Marxist philosophy which denies spirituality. From being a “universalist materialist”, he becomes now a “spiritual humanist”, believing in cosmic forces, not by adopting any specific religion, but rather in being open to and in studying diverse beliefs from all around the world.
One of his fundamental ideas: the exterior is the reflection of the interior; every individual essence contains also the essence of the universe. Therefore, individual identity is the basis of all other forms of identity. If we do not believe in ourselves and in what surrounds us, we cannot believe in the collectivity and what lies further. Therefore, if we are not attached to our own people and own identity, we cannot be attached to humanity as a whole. It is from this philosophical starting point, as well as his numerous books (essays and novels) and his journal Mesopotamia that Selim MATAR starts to occupy himself with the concept of “national identity”. In fact he is considered as the founding figure of the cultural movement known as “identity of the Iraqi nation”, a concept not known in Iraq until the eighties, be it in the political or cultural domain.
The book that really founded this movement is "Wounded Identity" (1996, 500 pages, several Iraqi and Arab editions). This work has been studied in several Iraqi universities. The concept of identity is here explained and applied to the Iraqi case, as well as to the Near East and to the whole Arabic world, from a historical and political point of view.
Because of his pacific discourse that calls for national unity and rejection of ethnic and confessional fanaticism, Selim Matar has been contested by communitarian parties and movements leaning towards armed conflicts.
Principal books.
Selim MATAR is the author of several works of reflection, essays, novels and short stories. The ensemble of his works can be consulted free of charge on his website.
List of principal books:
1. Imra’at al-Qârûra (The Woman of the Flask), 1990, 160 pages. This first book won the prize “Al-Naqed” of the best Arabic novel in 1990. It exists in several editions, both Iraqi and Arab. This novel has been very well received in the Arabic world and Selim MATAR has been named “companion of the Woman of the Flask”.
This novel has been translated into French (La Femme à la Fiole) and in English (The Woman of the Flask).
2. Al-Dhât al-djarîha (Wounded Identity, 1996, 500 pages) is his first work of reflection and history. There he shows in detail, with numerous examples from history and philosophy, the concept of national identity and the problems of identity in Iraq as well as the Arabic world at large.
3. I’tirâfât radjulin lâ yastahyî (literal translation: The Confessions of a Man without Shame), 2008, 160 pages. This is an autobiographical novel where the author evokes his life from his childhood and youth in Bagdad all the way through his arrival in Geneva and his life in Switzerland. Translated into the French version at Paris in 2011 (Bagdad-Genève, à la recherche d’une patrie, roman autobiographique). Several extracts from the book have been performed in a play.
4. Al-munazammât al-sirriyah (The Secret Societies), 2011, 160 pages. This book assembles information and develops a reflection on world secret societies and their role in the Middle East.
5. Al-Irâq, saba’tu alâf ’âm min al-hayât (Iraq, 7000 Years of Living History, 2013, 260 pages). This important work combines history with reflection. It retraces different stages of Iraqi history, from the prehistoric era until the modern times, with some 500 interesting as well as useful photos, maps and numerical information.
Other books.
The other writings of Selim MATAR focus on the problem of identity and belonging in their historical, psychological, political and intellectual aspects.
1. Al-taw’am al-mafqûd (The Lost Twin), 2000, 200p, his second novel tells the wanderings of a young Iraqi exile who leaves Geneva in search of his “lost twin”.
2. Djadal a-huwiyyât (The Debate of Identities), 2003, 300P:.
3. Al-Irâq al-djadîd wa-l-fikr al-djadîd, (The New Iraq and the New Thought)
2001, 200P.
4. Yaqzat al-huwiyyah al-irâqiyya (The Awakening of Iraqi Identity) 2011 ;150P.
5. Mashrû’ al-ihyâh al-watanî al-‘irâqî (The Project of the Rebirth of the Iraqi Nation), 2012, 150P.
The journal MESOPOTAMIA and the encyclopaedias of MESOPOTAMIA
In 2004, Selim MATAR started to publish MESOPOTAMIA, a cultural journal devoted to the question of Iraqi identity, of which he is the chief editor. While publishing issues of this periodic, Selim MATAR also supervised the publication of numerous encyclopaedias (about 400 pages) of MESOPOTAMIA:
1. Khamsat alâf ‘âm min al-unûtha al-‘irâqiyyah (5000 Years of Iraqi Femininity), 2004: story of the Iraqi woman and presentation of eminent female personalities in ancient and contemporary Iraq.
2. Mawsû’ah al-madâ’in al’irâqiyyah (Encyclopaedia of Iraqi Cities), 2005: a work aimed at making known the geography and history of Iraqi provinces and their principal cities.
3. Khamsat alâf ‘âm min al-tadayyun al-‘irâqî (5000 Years of Iraqi Religiosity), 2006: a work aimed at making known the different religions and confessions of Iraq, both antique and current.
4. Mawsû’at Kirkuk qalb al-‘Irâq, (Encyclopaedia of Kirkûk, the Heart of Iraq), 2008: a work aimed at making known the province of Kirkuk, its history, as well as its geographic, demographic and cultural dimensions.
5. Mawsû’at al-lughât al-‘irâqiyyah (Encyclopaedia of Iraqi Languages), 2009: a contribution to the knowledge of all the languages that have flourished in Iraq, dead or living, as well as to the culture of communities that speak those languages.
6. Mawsû’at al-bî’ah al-‘irâqiyyah (Encyclopaedia of Iraqi Environment), 2010: a work aimed at bringing us information about the natural environment of Iraq and the serious ecological problems that the country has faced, in order to make us aware of the limitation of the factors of industrial and military destruction and pollution.


Alf Wiig

Alf Kristian Theodor Wiig (24 August 1891 – 10 July 1974) was a Norwegian bishop in the Church of Norway.
Wiig was born in Kristiansund, Norway. He served as vicar in Karasjok from 1923 to 1934 and in Sortland from 1934 to 1945. He was then the dean of Finnmark from 1945 until 1951 and he was the dean of Tromsø Cathedral from 1951 until 1952. In 1952, he became the first bishop of the Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland, a position he held until 1961. He died on 10 July 1974.


Halvdan Wexelsen Freihow

Halvdan Wexelsen Freihow (22 November 1883 – 20 December 1965) was a Norwegian priest and culturist.
He was born in Tana, and graduated with the cand.theol. degree in 1909. In 1937 he earned the dr.philos. degree for a thesis on the psychological aspect of Henrik Ibsen's "Brand". He was an avid proponent of the written language form Nynorsk, and chaired Noregs Ungdomslag from 1926 to 1936. He was later a vicar in Skien.
During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany he was arrested by the occupiers. He was imprisoned in Åkebergveien and Arkivet, then Grini concentration camp from 12 May to 12 June 1943.
He was the father of the diplomat Håkon Wexelsen Freihow.


David Leake

David Leake was (born 26 June 1935) the assistant Bishop in Northern Argentina from 1969 to 1979 when he became diocesan Bishop and for the latter part of that post also Primate of the Southern Cone.
Born to missionary parents serving in Argentina, he was ordained in the Church of England and began his career with a curacy in Watford. He was made a deacon at Michaelmas 1959 (20 September) and ordained a priest the Michaelmas following (25 September 1960), both times by Michael Gresford Jones, Bishop of St Albans, at St Albans Cathedral.
In 1963 he went to South America where he served the Church as a Missionary eventually being appointed to the episcopate. He was ordained and consecrated a bishop on St Thomas' Day 1969 (21 December) to serve as Bishop in Northern Argentina, assistant bishop of the newly-erected Diocese of Paraguay and Northern Argentina. In retirement he continues to serve the church as an Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Norwich. and also serves as a consultant to the Argentine Bible Society specialising in the Toba language translation of the Toba (oeste) New Testament. On retirement he was honoured by the Queen with the CBE in the 2003 New Year Honours.


Elias Gczmidele

Elias Gczmidele (fl. 1570s) was a Polish Protestant expelled from the Hungarian Calvinist community in Cluj-Napoca in 1570. He is known only for his letter of appeal from Cracow to Gáspár Heltai in February 1571, preserved in the Cluj city archives. This uncharacteristic intolerant incident may be because of his view of not resisting the Ottoman Empire as "the greatest power in the world."


Hugolino Cerasuolo Stacey

Hugolino Cerasuola Stacey (4 April 1932 – 24 May 2019) was an Ecuadorian Roman Catholic bishop.
Cerasuolo Stacey was born in Ecuador and was ordained to the priesthood in 1954.
He served as prefect apostolic of Galápagos, Ecuador, from 1967 to 1975.
In 1975, he was ordained a bishop and served as titular bishop of "Valeria" and as auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Guayaquil, Ecuadoe from 1975 to 1985.
He then served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Loja, Ecuador, from 1985 to 2007.


Dionisio de Avila

 Dionisio de Avila, O. de M. (died 1552) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Santorini (1539–1552).
Biography.
Dionisio de Avilawas ordained a priest in the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy.
On 29 Oct 1539, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Paul III as Bishop of Santorini.
He served as Bishop of Santorini until his death in 1552.


Andy Broom

Andrew Clifford Broom (born Norwich, 1965) has been Archdeacon of the East Riding since 2014.
Initially a Youth worker, Broom was educated at Keele University and Trinity College, Bristol.
He was ordained in 1993 and served curacies in Wellington and Brampton. He was Vicar of St John, Walton from 2000 until 2009; and Director of Mission and Ministry for the Diocese of Derby from 2009 until his appointment as Archdeacon.


Ebenezer Ntlali

Ebenezer St Mark Ntlali (born Richmond, Northern Cape, 1954) is a South African Anglican bishop. He is the fourteenth and current Bishop of Grahamstown.
He trained for the priesthood at St Bede's College, Transkei, and has a bachelor's degree in church history and systematic theology from Rhodes University. He was archdeacon of King William's Town until his consecration as a bishop in 2007.


Aharon Pfeuffer

Aharon Pfeuffer (also "Pfoifer" ) was a Rabbi and Posek and a recognised authority on Kashrut. He was active in Johannesburg and Bnei Brak; he headed the Etz Chaim Yeshiva (London). He founded the Yeshiva Maharsha Beis Aharon in 1982 (later named for him) and headed the Yeshiva College of South Africa in the early 1980s . He is best known as author of the work on Kashrut "Kitzur Halachot Basar B'Chalav" ("A summary of the laws of Milk and Meat", קיצור הלכות בשר בחלב - also called "Kitzur Shulchan Aruch al Hilchos Basar be-Chalav"). He died in a car accident on his way to the Kruger National Park .


Edmond Crosse

The Venerable Edmond Francis Crosse (1858–1941) was the first Archdeacon of Chesterfield and, from 1914, he was a Companion of the Memorial of Merit of King Charles the Martyr. He was the great grandson of the famous Norwich surgeon John Green Crosse. From 1905 he was the Vicar of Chesterfield and then Archdeacon from 1910. He retired in 1929. He is buried in the graveyard at Little Barrington, Gloucestershire.


Prince Asukwo Antai

Prince Asukwo Antai, formerly former Archdeacon of Abak, is an Anglican bishop in Nigeria: he is the current Bishop of Uyo one of nine in the Anglican Province of the Niger Delta, itself one of 14 within the Church of Nigeria.
He was elected as Bishop of Uyo at the 11th General Synod of the Church of Nigeria, held at the Cathedral Church of the Good Shepherd, Enugu, in September 2014.


Salvador Ribera Avalos

Salvador Ribera Avalos, O.P. (died 1612) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Quito (1605–1612).
Biography.
Salvador Ribera Avalos was ordained a priest in the Order of Preachers. On 17 August 1605, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Leo XI as Bishop of Quito. On 23 October 1605, he was consecrated bishop. He served as Bishop of Quito until his death in 1612.
While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of Pedro Ponce de Léon, Bishop of Ciudad Rodrigo (1605).


Thomas Potter (Universalist)

Thomas Potter (1689–1777) was an illiterate farmer who in 1760 built a chapel in Good Luck, New Jersey (now Lacey Township), for the purpose of spreading the doctrine of Universalism.
He was born in 1689, the son of Rogerene Baptist immigrants from Rhode Island. Influenced by both Quaker and Baptist beliefs, Potter, as a Universalist, let people of all creeds worship on his land, but was convinced that God would send him a preacher of Universalism. In 1770, a Universalist preacher named John Murray did in fact appear, and was prevailed upon by Potter to give his first Universalist sermon on the American continent. Murray then went on to become the minister of the first Universalist congregation in America, located in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and to be a central figure in the creation of the Universalist Church in America, in 1793. Potter died not long after Murray departed, probably in 1777 (the year in which his will was probated), but is considered to have been one of the founders of the Universalist movement. Universalists began coming on pilgrimage to the site of his chapel, where in the 1870s they built the Potter Memorial Chapel, and in 1886 created Murray Grove as a center of Universalism. Today Murray Grove is still a Unitarian Universalist retreat and conference center, celebrating the heritage of Potter, Murray and the early Universalists.


Leonardo Mario Bernacchi

Leonardo Mario Bernacch (January 5, 1935 – April 10, 2012) was the Roman Catholic titular bishop of Tabaicara and bishop of the Roman Catholic Apostolic Vicariate of Camiri, Bolivia.
Ordained to the priesthood in 1958, Bernacchi became bishop in 1993 and retired in 2009.


Francisco Javier Quintanilla

Francisco Javier Quintanilla (1833–?) was a Chilean priest. Born in Rancagua, he did his ecclesiastical studies at the Seminario Conciliar in Santiago. He published two notable religious works, "Tradicionalismo" and "Historia de la Teolojia". He was a member of the Faculty of Theology and Sacred Sciences at the University of Chile.


John William Hewett

Rev. John William Hewett (1824-1886) was an English "enthusiastic Anglo-Catholic of extreme views", an educationalist, hymnist, and antiquary.
Origins.
He was born in 1824, the son of William Hewett, and was christened on 10 March 1824 at Saint Mary's Church, Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire. In later life he used the motto ("'Be Just and Fear Not", which he gave as his school's motto) and the owl crest of the Irish "Hewitt" family, Viscounts Lifford, but no connection between him and that family has been found by his biographer.
Career.
He was educated at Barnstaple Grammar School in Devon (in the process of his bankruptcy it was discovered he owned a house at nearby Bishops Tawton, which had presumably been his own home), and matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in Michaelmas 1845, aged 21. In 1848 he served as Honorary Secretary to the Cambridge Architectural Society. He received the degree of BA in 1849, and MA in 1852. In 1849 he was ordained as a deacon at Chichester in West Sussex and as a priest in 1850.
Fellow of College of St Nicolas.
Between 1849 and 1852 he was an assistant master and a Fellow of the Society of the College of St Nicolas, at Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, a college of 17 priests founded in 1848 by Nathaniel Woodard, a member of the Oxford Movement and curate of Shoreham-by-Sea, who in that year also founded "Shoreham Grammar School". This was a fellowship of priests formed with the vision of founding "one middle-class school in every diocese". The College of St Nicolas later became Lancing College. He left in 1852 having been rebuked by Woodard for "a flagrant piece of insubordination", whereupon he determined to found his own school where he could manage things according to his own more extreme Anglo-Catholic ideals, including the requirement for systematic and regular confession.
Founds Bloxham School.
In January 1853 Hewett was appointed curate to Rev. J.
Hodgson, the Anglo-Catholic vicar of Bloxham, in Oxfordshire.
His main responsibility was to serve the small dilapidated medieval chapel at nearby Milcombe, where in February 1853 he
founded his school, which he named "All Saints' Grammar School", also known as "Hewett's School". His plan was ambitious as he intended the school to be "the same to the poorer clergy and gentry as Radley & Bradfield are to the richer". The school was supported by Bishop Samuel Wilberforce, a member of the Oxford Movement who shared his interest in education, who commissioned the diocesan architect George Edmund Street to draw up plans for the new school buildings. Street's design was described by "The Gentleman's Magazine" as the 'most beautiful modern Gothic buildings ever devoted in England to a scholastic purpose'. The foundation stone was blessed by Wilberforce on 7 June 1855. Hewett's plans were for a school for 100 commoners, 40 scholars and an unspecified number of choristers. In February 1855 a trust for the school was established, naming it "All Saints' Grammar School", with the intent of providing for "the liberal education of the sons of the clergy, gentry, Naval, Military and professional men and others". Unknown to the trustees, Hewett was at that time personally insolvent, which made the trust legally invalid, and later allowed his creditors to seize the school's assets. Hewett contributed his own extensive library and the bulk of the funds for the ambitious building project. He was not however a wealthy man, but had recently inherited a modest legacy from his mother, which he invested in the project. It is said that he gave the impression to his business associates and prospective creditors that he was a man of substantial personal means, which persuaded them to trust him.
Bankruptcy.
Having incurred large debts due to his extravagance and poor business acumen, on 27 February 1857 Hewett filed a petition for bankruptcy, following a meeting of his creditors, including his builder and several local tradesmen, a week before in Banbury where his debts were reckoned at about £5,300. The school had failed to attract sufficient numbers of pupils, whom he had expected to pay unusually high fees. Hewett's school, with several dozen pupils and incomplete buildings, was closed in April 1857. The school trust approached Nathaniel Woodard for help, but he refused to support the school. By 1859 the school had been "broken up" and in the autumn of that year the property was due to be sold by auction, but was purchased and resurrected by Rev. Philip Reginald Egerton, then a curate of nearby Deddington, who successfully refounded the school, today surviving as Bloxham School.
Later career.
The failure of his school totally ruined him and he "went forth as literally bare as the bailiffs could wish". He later admitted: "I was too sanguine. Too blindly sanguine. I ought to have known it was impossible. I ought to have known that no promise of success justified incurring debt, especially on so large a scale, or the involving friends, though I am sure I never reckoned that they would be losers by me'.
After his bankruptcy, he managed to obtain successive posts as curate in various parishes until 1874 when he was appointed Senior Classical Master in the North London College School, a girls' school founded in 1850, which post he retained until 1878.
Marriage and children.
He married in about 1855 and had 4 children.
Death & assessment.
He died on 20 April 1886 at Claybrooke, near Lutterworth in Leicestershire. In 1907 one of his friends, Rev. W. D. Macray wrote of him in connection with his venture of Bloxham School:
However the present school does acknowledge that:


Robert Persons

Robert Persons (24 June 1546 – 15 April 1610), later known as Robert Parsons, was an English Jesuit priest. He was a major figure in establishing the 16th-century "English Mission" of the Society of Jesus.
Early life.
Robert Persons was born at Nether Stowey, Somerset to yeoman parents. Through the favour of local parson named John Hayward, a former monk, he was educated in 1562 at St. Mary's Hall, Oxford. After completing his degrees with distinction, he became a fellow and tutor at Balliol in 1568.
College fellow and priest.
As a Fellow of Balliol College, Persons clashed with the Master there, Adam Squire, and also the academic and Roman Catholic priest Christopher Bagshaw. On 13 February 1574, he was subsequently forced to resign. Through discussion and encouraged by pupillage with Father William Good, SJ, he travelled overseas to become a Jesuit priest at St Paul's, Rome on 3 July 1575.
English mission: 1580–1581.
Persons accompanied Edmund Campion on his mission to fellow English Catholics in 1580. The Jesuit General, Everard Mercurian, had been reluctant to involve the Society directly in English ecumenical affairs. He was persuaded by an Italian Jesuit provincial, and later by Superior General Claudio Acquaviva, after William Cardinal Allen had found Mercurian resistant to change in October 1579. Persons fast tracked English recruits to the Jesuits, and planned to set up cooperation with the remaining English secular clergy. He became impatient with Father Good's approach to the situation. Campion was much less of an enthusiast than he was.
The mission was immediately compromised as the pope had sent a separate group to the Jesuit mission, to support the Irish rebel, James FitzMaurice FitzGerald. Persons and Campion only learned of this event in Reims while they were en route to England. After the initial invasion force under the mercenary Thomas Stukley had achieved nothing successful in 1578, the intervention under FitzGerald caused the English authorities to monitor the recusants closely, and try to finance the campaign against the papal forces with exactions from them. Campion and Persons crossed separately into England.
In June 1580 Thomas Pounde, then in the Marshalsea Prison, went to speak to Persons. This action then resulted in a petition from Pounde to the Privy Council to allow a disputation where the Jesuits would take on Robert Crowley and Henry Tripp, who used to preach to the Marshalsea inmates. Campion and Persons also prepared their own personal statements, to be kept in reserve. The immediate consequence was that Pounde was then transferred to Bishop's Stortford Castle; but the prepared statement by Campion was later circulated soon after his capture.
Much of the time Persons spent in England was taken up with covert printing, and pamphleteering. He made his negative view on church papism clear to the local Catholic clergy, before a synod in Southwark. The secret printing press needed to be relocated, moving it in early 1581 to Stonor Park. Campion was captured in July of that year; and then Stephen Brinkley, who ran the printing press, was taken captive in August. Quite soon after that date Persons left for France. His underlying strategy of trying to embarrass the English government by demanding a forum for his ideals was consistent with the general approach of Allen and Persons, but met with much criticism from the Catholic members. Allen and Parsons persisted with their demand for another two years, but Jesuit opinion was against further confrontation. Campion was forced into disputation in the Tower of London under adverse conditions. When Persons left England, he was never to return.
To the Armada.
Persons spent the winter of 1581–82 at Rouen, and embarked on writing projects. He was in close contact with Henry I, Duke of Guise, and through the Duke founded a school for English boys at Eu, on the coast to the north-east. Father William Creighton, SJ, was on the way to Scotland. He arrived in January 1582 and was briefed by Persons and the duke. In April Creighton returned with word from Esmé Stewart, 1st Duke of Lennox; and they went to Paris to confer with William Allen, James Beaton and Claude Mathieu, Jesuit provincial in France, on his military plans and the imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots. The scheme, which Persons supported confidently, advanced further, but was stopped after the raid of Ruthven of August 1582. One consequence was that Allen was made Cardinal, as Persons had recommended.
A new enterprise was projected for September 1583, this time through England. Persons was sent by the Duke of Guise with written instructions to Rome. He returned to Flanders, and stayed for some time at the court of the Duke of Parma. The discovery of the Throckmorton Plot disrupted the plan, and the Duke of Guise became absorbed in French domestic affairs. Philip II of Spain took over the lead, placed the Duke of Parma in charge, and limited involvement to Persons, Allen, and Hew Owen.
It was during this period that Persons was involved in the work later known as "Leicester's Commonwealth". Distributed covertly, it came to light in 1584. Persons is now generally thought not to be the author. The British historian John Bossy, from the University of York, is inclined to disagree.
There is a scholarly consensus that the intention was to affect French domestic politics, strengthening the Guise faction against Anglophiles. Correspondingly his own standing suffered in some quarters. Claudio Acquaviva by the end of the year was concerned that the Jesuit strategies for France and the English mission would turn out to be inconsistent in the longer term, and consulted Pope Gregory XIII on the matter. Persons as his subordinate had been told to drop plans to assassinate Elizabeth.
In September 1585, Pope Sixtus V succeeded Pope Gregory XIII, and Persons and Allen went to Rome; Persons was still there when the Spanish Armada sailed in 1588. At this period Allen and Persons made a close study of the succession to Elizabeth I of England, working with noted genealogist Robert Heighinton. Persons took his vows of final profession in the Jesuits in Rome on 7 May 1587.
Later life.
Persons was sent to Spain at the close of 1588 to conciliate Philip II of Spain, who was offended with Claudio Acquaviva. Persons was successful, and then made use of the royal favour to found the seminaries of Valladolid, Seville, and Madrid (1589, 1592, 1598) and the residences of San-Lucar and of Lisbon (which became a college in 1622). He then succeeded in establishing at St Omer (1594) a larger institution to which the boys from Eu were transferred. It is the institutional ancestor of Stonyhurst College.
In 1596, in Seville, he wrote "Memorial for the Reformation of England", which gave in some detail a blueprint for the kind of society England was to become after its return to the faith. He had hoped to succeed Allen as Cardinal on the latter's death. Unsuccessful, he was rewarded with the rectorship of the English College in Rome, where he died at the age of 63. John Donne's "Pseudo Martyr" (1610) engages critically with Persons' views.
Works.
Persons's published works were:
Misattributed.
"An Apologicall Epistle: directed to the right honourable lords and others of her majesties privie counsell. Serving as well for a preface to a Booke entituled A Resolution of Religion" [signed R. B.], Antwerp, 1601, is by Richard Broughton rather than Persons (as the "Dictionary of National Biography" says). Some works against Thomas Bell were thought to be by Persons (as in the DNB), but were in fact by Philip Woodward.


Gabriel Bouvery

Gabriel Bouvery (died 1572) was a French bishop of Angers, successor to Jean V Olivier who died 12 April 1540.
Nomination and episcopacy.
François I of France intervened with the chapter of Angers Cathedral, imposing the nomination of Bouvery. The king had taken the 1534 Affair of the Placards badly, as far as his attitude to toleration of Protestants went. Bouvery was the nephew of Guillaume Poyet, a courtier close to the king and son of Pierre Poyet who had been mayor of Angers. It was a political appointment aimed at royal control in the Catholic Church, in a successor to the late Jean V Olivier.
In 1553 Bouvert consecrated the new church of Notre-Dame-des-Ardilliers in Saumur, founded by Olivier. He worked to implement the decisions of the Council of Trent, which he attended. Through his uncle, Bouvery became patron of Guillaume Postel; he was patron also of Jean Bodin.
Role during the Wars of Religion.
On the 1560 accession of Charles IX of France, religious war in France came into the open. Bouvery put in place an Angevin Catholic League, in 1567: it comprised 59 of the nobility, with others including Arthur de Cossé-Brissac, the bishop of Coutances. The diocese was spared the worst of the violence. Fighting continued to the Peace of Longjumeau (1568) and Peace of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1570). Bouvery died on 10 February 1572. He was succeeded by Guillaume Ruzé, bishop of Saint-Malo. Fresh violence in 1572 followed shortly on the St Bartholomew's Day massacre of August; the governor Puygaillard of Anjou was then in Paris, but entrusted plans to attack Protestants in Saumur and Angers to Jean de Chambes, baron of Montsoreau. De Chambes's violence was rebuked on 14 September by the king.


Erik Kaas

Erik Kaas (died 20 Sep 1520) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Viborg (1509–1520).
Biography.
On 31 Jan 1509, Erik Kaas was appointed during the papacy of Pope Julius II as Bishop of Viborg. He served as Bishop of Viborg until his death on 20 Sep 1520.


Teresa de Cartagena

Teresa de Cartagena (Burgos, c.1425–?) was a Spanish writer, mystic and nun who is considered to be the first Spanish female writer and mystic. She became deaf between 1453 and 1459. Her experience of deafness influenced her two known works "Arboleda de los enfermos" (Grove of the Infirm) and "Admiraçión operum Dey" (Wonder at the Works of God). The latter work represents what many critics consider as the first feminist tract written by a Spanish woman.
Few documents exist regarding Teresa's life. In Francisco Cantera Burgos's history of the Santa María family, the author confirms Teresa's identity as a "conversa" (a Christian of Spanish Jewish heritage) and as a member of the Santa María-Cartagena family, the most powerful converso family in late-medieval Spain. Her grandfather, Rabbi Shlomo ha-Levi, converted to Christianity around 1390 and was baptized as Pablo de Santa María, becoming bishop of Burgos in 1412.
Cantera Burgos discovered that Teresa was the daughter of Pedro de Cartagena after finding her named in the will of a later bishop of Burgos, Alonso de Cartagena, Pedro's brother and Teresa's uncle. Before becoming deaf, Teresa entered the Franciscan in Burgos around 1440. Later, in 1449, she transferred to the Cistercian Monasterio de Las Huelgas in Burgos, where she became deaf. The transfer likely occurred, as Dayle Seidenspinner-Núñez and Yonsoo Kim point out, because of family political strategy and hostility of the Franciscans, who rejected "conversos".
Teresa wrote her first work "Arboleda de los enfermos" expressing the solitude of her deafness. Approximately one to two years later, she penned a defense of her first work, called "Admiraçión operum Dey", after mostly male critics claimed that a woman could not have possibly been the author of such an eloquent and well-reasoned work. Both of her writings have come down to modern readers through a single manuscript completed by the copyist Pero López del Trigo in 1481.
Important as Spain's first feminist writer, Teresa also contributed to an overall European canon of medieval feminist authors including Hildegard von Bingen and Christine de Pizan. Both "Arboleda" and "Admiraçión" are semi-autobiographical works that provide an authentic written voice of a medieval woman, a true rarity among surviving works of the Middle Ages.
"Arboleda de los enfermos".
Teresa's first work examines the effect of her deafness on her life and its spiritual development. After being devastated by the initial onset of the illness, Teresa meditates in the silent prison of her deafness and ultimately concludes that God has afflicted her in order to separate her from the distractions of everyday noise. After much reflection in the prison of echoing sounds within the cloisters of her ears, Teresa reasons that her soul would have been purer if she had never been exposed to speech at all, which makes one turn to the outside material world and forget the inner spiritual world.
The copyist, Pero López, indicates that her work was addressed to Juana de Mendoza, wife of Gómez Manrique, a poet and prominent political figure of the time, but within "Arboleda", she addresses a ""virtuosa señora" (virtuous lady), who may be Juana de Mendoza, suggesting a female audience at large. In contrast, the genre Teresa employs, the "libro de consolaciones" (book of consolations), was primarily authored by men and addressed a male audience. In order to humble herself strategically before male readers, the author reiterates the weakness of her intellect or "la baxeza e grosería de mi mugeril yngenio" [the lowliness and grossness of my womanly intellect].
"Admiraçión operum Dey".
Despite her strategies to disarm the male reader in "Arboleda", men still rejected Teresa's work as plagiarized. In response to this male criticism, she composes "Admiraçión operum Dey", making the argument that if God created men who could write, he could just as well have created women who could write, and while men have been writing for centuries, it does not make it any more natural for them to write but rather it seems natural because men have been writing for such a long time. In addition, simply because women have not traditionally written like men, it does not mean that female writing is any less natural.
Cleverly, Teresa argues that if God bestows a gift upon men then he can just as well bestow the same gift upon women. The following passage illustrates how Teresa viewed her relationship with God and the authorship of her writing:People marvel at what I wrote in the treatise and I marvel at what, in fact, I kept quiet, but I do not marvel doubting nor do I insist on my wonder. For my experience makes me sure, and the God of Truth knows that I had no other master nor consulted with any other learned authority nor translated from other books, as some people with malicious wonder are wont to say. Rather, this alone is the truth: that God of all knowledge, Lord of all virtues, Father of mercy, God of every consolation, He who consoles us in all our tribulation, He alone consoled me, He alone taught me, He alone read (to) me. He inclined His ear to me when I, besieged with great anguish and adrift in a deep sea of misfortunes, called upon Him with the Prophet, saying, “Save me, O God: for the waters are come in even unto my soul” [Psalm 68:2]. (Translation from Seidenspinner-Núñez, 102-3)
Ultimately, Teresa concludes that the criticisms of her opponents call into question God's authority to distribute gifts and consequently offends him. The "virtuosa señora"" addressed in the second work as in the first acts as the female addressee or reader who sympathizes with Teresa's concerns. To illustrate her points further, the author makes use of imagery and allusions to Biblical women. For example, she alludes to the Biblical story of the powerful Judith, who kills Holofernes after a whole army of men could not perform the task. Teresa also expounds upon the virtue of the interior life of the housewife.
According to Teresa, the tranquil and spiritual interior world of the household, in contrast to the exterior warring world of men, constitutes a place for reflection and intellectual growth. While strategically noting that men and women are not equal in all capacities, Teresa also remarks that masculine and feminine roles complement each other because of their differences. Her subtly feminist argument rejects commonly held medieval beliefs that women were the weaker sex, intended by God for exclusively passive and reproductive purposes.


Paphnutius the Bishop

Saint Paphnutius the Bishop is an Egyptian saint from the tenth century AD.
He was initially a monk in the Nitrian Desert. He exerted harsh asceticism and worship, ate dry beans, and fasted for many days in a row. He was later ordained a priest, and remained in the wilderness for 35 years. He was ordained bishop by Pope Philotheos of Alexandria, but remained in his rough asceticism even after his ordination. He remained bishop for 32 years, and departed on 11 Pashons.


Carlo Giuliani (bishop)

Carlo Giuliani, O.P. (died 1663) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Ston (1653–1663).
Biography.
Carlo Giuliani was ordained a priest in the Order of Preachers.
On 3 Feb 1653, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent X as Bishop of Ston.
On 9 Feb 1653, he was consecrated bishop by Marcello Santacroce, Bishop of Tivoli, with Giovanni Lucas Moncalvi, Bishop of Guardialfiera, and Riginaldo Lucarini, Bishop of Città della Pieve, serving as co-consecrators.
He served as Bishop of Stagno until his death on 3 Nov 1663.


Henry de Bury (monk)

Henry de Bury or Bederic (fl. 1380), was an English monk and writer.
He was a Benedictine monk from the ancient and royal Abbey of Bury St. Edmonds.
References.
"A biographical, historical and chronological dictionary", John Watkins


Dirk I (bishop)

Dirk van Holland (died at Pavia, 28 August 1197) was bishop of Utrecht in 1197.
Dirk van Holland was the son of Dirk VI, Count of Holland and Sophia van Rheineck. This made him brother to Floris III, Count of Holland and bishop Baldwin II van Holland.
After bishop Baldwin's death, he was put forward by the Count of Holland as candidate for the vacant seat at Utrecht. He was supported by Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor. However, the Count of Guelders nominated Arnold I van Isenburg for the seat, and Arnold was supported by the Archbishop of Cologne and the pope. The impasse resulted in Dirk being recognised in the Nedersticht while Arnold was recognised in the Oversticht.
Both candidates travelled to Rome, where Arnold was consecrated as bishop by Pope Celestine III in 1196. Arnold died in the same year however, which allowed Dirk to be consecrated after all. Unfortunately Dirk died while on his way back to Utrecht, in Pavia.


Robert Camilleri Azzopardi

Robert Camilleri Azzopardi O.F.M. (born 24 April 1951) is the bishop of the Diocese of Comayagua in Honduras since 2004.
Biography.
Robert Camilleri Azzopardi was born in Ħamrun, Malta on 24 April 1951 to John Camilleri and Marianne Azzopardi. He is the fifth in a family of six other brothers and three sisters. He became a Franciscan and was ordained on 29 June 1975 by Pope Paul VI in Rome. When back in Malta he became the master of novices for three years and then departed as a missionary to Honduras. In Honduras he became the Parish Priest of La Libertad for 10 years when he was transferred to El Calvario in Comayagüela in 1992.
On 26 July 2001, Pope John Paul II appointed him as the Auxiliary Bishop of Tegucigalpa and Titular Bishop of Vagada. He was consecrated on the feast of the Assumption in the Basilica of Nuesta Senora de Suyapa by Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga. In 2004 he was appointed to the Diocese of Comayagua. He was installed as the third bishop on 24 July 2004.


Donatus Djagom

Donatus Djagom (10 May 1919 – 29 November 2011) was an Indonesian Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.
Djagom was born in Bilas, Indonesia and ordained a priest on 28 August 1949 from the religious order of Society of Divine Word. He was appointed bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ende on 19 December 1968 and ordained archbishop on 11 June 1969. Djagom retired on 23 February 1996.


Augustinus Kim Jong-soo

Augustinus Kim Jong Soo (; born February 8, 1956) is a Roman Catholic prelate who serves as auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Daejeon.
Biography.
Kim was born in daeheung-dong, Daejeon, South Korea and ordained a priest on February 13, 1989. On February 10, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI appointed him Auxiliary Bishop of Daejeon and Titular Bishop of "Sufasar." On March 3, 2009, he was consecrated by Joseph Kyeong Kap-ryong, retired Bishop of Daejeon with Lazzaro You Heung-sik, Bishop of Daejeon and Cardinal Nicolas Cheong Jin-suk, Archbishop of Seoul as Co-Consecrators.


Manohar Lal Khattar

Manohar Lal Khattar (born 5 May 1954) is an Indian politician serving as the 10th and current Chief Minister of Haryana. He is member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and a former RSS pracharak. He represented Karnal constituency in Haryana Legislative Assembly. He was sworn-in for the first time as Chief Minister of Haryana on 26 October 2014 after BJP's win in the 2014 Haryana Legislative Assembly election. He was sworn in a second time as the Chief Minister on 27 October 2019 after making an alliance with Jannayak Janta Party post-2019 Haryana Legislative Assembly election with Dushyant Chautala as his deputy
Personal life.
Khattar was born on 5 May 1954 in Nindana village of Meham tehsil in Rohtak district of East Punjab (now in Haryana), in a Punjabi Hindu family. His father, Harbans Lal Khattar, had migrated to the village from Jhang district of West Punjab following the Partition of India in 1947. His family initially settled in the Banyani village of Rohtak district and took up farming.
Khattar completed his matriculation (final year of high school) from Pandit Neki Ram Sharma Government College, Rohtak. He then moved to Delhi, and ran a shop near Sadar Bazar while completing his bachelor's degree from Delhi University.
Political career.
Khattar joined Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in 1977, and became a full-time pracharak three years later. As a pracharak, he is a lifelong bachelor. He worked as a full-time pracharak for 14 years before moving to BJP, in 1994.
During 2000–2014, Khattar was Organizational General Secretary of the BJP in Haryana. He was the Chairman of BJP's Haryana Election Campaign Committee for 2014 Lok Sabha Elections. Subsequently, he became a member of BJP's National Executive Committee.
In 2014, Khattar was nominated as BJP's candidate from Karnal constituency for the Haryana Legislative Assembly election, 2014. The party's workers and supporters in Karnal launched a signature campaign, asking the party leadership to field a local candidate instead of him. His opponent, the Indian National Congress candidate and Deepender Singh Hooda, accused Khattar of being an "outsider" not native to Karnal. But Modi wave helped Mr. Khattar win elections by heavy margin.
In the elections, the BJP gained a majority in Haryana for the first time, and Khattar won his maiden election by a margin of 63,736 votes. During a party meeting, his name was proposed for the Chief Minister of Haryana post by Haryana BJP President Ram Bilas Sharma, seconded by other strong Chief Minister of Haryana claimant Rao Inderjeet Singh and supported by many MLAs. He became the BJP's first Chief Minister of Haryana after his swearing-in ceremony on 26 October 2014.
On 27 October 2019, Khattar was sworn-in as the Chief Minister for the second time, after making an alliance with Dushyant Chautala's Jannayak Janta Party post 2019 Haryana Legislative Assembly election.
Major initiatives.
Police reforms.
Khattar announced that Haryana will have an all-woman police station in each district and around 500 woman constables will be recruited. He also started a 24×7 portal called "Harsamay" through which anybody can file a complaint online.
He has also suggested that Yoga to be a part of police constables training to help keep the police personnel mentally and physically fit. According to media reports, Khattar has said that Police recruitments would be made on Transparent Recruitment Policy (TRP) and 3,060 new houses would be constructed for police personnel at a cost of Rs 550 crore in next three years.
E-governance.
Manohar Lal Khattar has introduced e-services through Common Service Centres including biometric attendance system in all the government offices through which attendance of all officers will be available online and monitored.
Women's empowerment.
Manohar Lal Khattar's Government has been in news for taking steps to implement Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao Yojana scheme that was flagged off by India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The child gender ratio has been improved in Haryana since he assumed power. It is now 889 girls per 1,000 boys. "Efforts are being made to further take it (child gender ratio) to above 900," Khattar has said in a public statement.
Construction of memorial.
Manohar Lal Khattar has publicly declared that his government will build a memorial to mark the sacrifice of Garud Commando Gursewak Singh, who was killed in a terrorist attack in Pathankot.
Controversies.
Manohar Lal Khattar is criticised for his remarks on rape and women issues. During his election campaign for 2014 polls in India, he said: "If they (women) want freedom, why don't they just roam around naked? Freedom has to be limited." Likewise, on 16 November 2018, he has stated, "The biggest concern is that in 80-90% of rapes and eve-teasing cases, the accused and the victim know each other. In many cases, they know each other for a long time, and on one day, when there is an argument... an FIR is lodged, saying that this person has raped me." This evoked strong condemnation from the opposition.


Margaret Newton Van Cott

Margaret Newton Van Cott (25 Mar 1830 – 29 Aug 1914) also known as Margaret Van Cott or Maggie Van Cott, was the first woman to be licensed to preach in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Biography.
Margaret Ann Newton was born in New York City on the 25th of March, 1830. Her father was William K. Newton, a wealthy real estate broker, and her mother was Rachel A. ("née" Primrose) Newton. She was brought up in the Episcopal Church, the eldest of four children.
In January 1848, Margaret Newton married Peter Van Cott, and in 1852 had two girls, one of whom died in infancy. She was involved with her husband's pharmaceutical business, and when he died she supported the family as a sale's person for a time. Her husband died in 1866 and she joined the Methodist Episcopal Church shortly thereafter. She had a significant conversion experience in which she recounted later "light [from heaven] streaming in upon her soul" while passing the John Street Methodist Church in New York City.
Some time after her husband's death, Maggie Van Cott devoted her full time to evangelical work. She made her first public address in a school in Durham, New York in 1866. The same year she also led Bible Study classes in Five Points, New York at a mission founded by Phoebe Worrall Palmer. Her success led her to be invited to conduct a number of revival meetings in February 1868. She continued to be invited to speak a various locations and received an exhorter's license from the Reverend A. C. Morehouse in September 1868, which allowed her to conduct prayer meetings; this was followed on March 6, 1869 with a local preacher's license in Ellenville, New York. Although there was some opposition to a "lady preacher," she became very popular and successful. In 1872 Bishop Gilbert Haven said "She is without doubt today the most popular, most laborious, and most successful preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church."
It was said that by her 50th birthday she had traveled 143,417 miles, held 9,933 revival meetings, and given 4,294 sermons. She died at home on August 29, 1914 in Catskill, New York at eighty-four.


Camillus Archibong Etokudoh

Camillus Archibong Etokudoh (born 1949), is a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the third
Bishop of Port Harcourt, appointed by
Pope Benedict XVI on 4 May 2009, to oversee the Diocese of Port Harcourt.
Biography.
Born in Ikot Uko Etor in Essien Udim local government area of Akwa Ibom State, Archibong was ordained a priest on 2 July 1978. He has served as Titular Bishop of Capra (1988–1989), Auxiliary Bishop of Ikot Ekpene (1988–1989) and Bishop of Ikot Ekpene (1989–2009).


Francisco del Castillo Andraca

Francisco del Castillo O.Merced or Francisco del Castillo Andraca (1716–1770) was a Peruvian poet, writer and priest of the Order of Mercy. Not to be confused with his namesake Francisco del Castillo SJ ( Jesuit of the seventeenth century), also from Lima.
Blind from birth, he was known as "El Ciego de La Merced" (The Blind Man from Mercy), and was a talented poet who combined wit and humor in his verses. Ricardo Palma would make a short biography of him (with some poems included), in his "Peruvian Traditions".


Walter de Danielston

Walter de Danielston [Danyelston] (died 1402) was an early 15th-century Bishop-elect of St. Andrews. Walter first appears on record in 1392 as a licentiate canon of the Bishopric of Aberdeen, studying civil law at Avignon. By 1394, Donnchadh, Earl of Lennox had presented him with control of the hospice of the poor at a place called "Poknade". By the beginning of the 15th century Walter's involvement in Lennox facilitated his role as the castellan of Dumbarton. In either 1397 or 1398, Walter seized the castle after the death of his brother Robert. It was the latter position that opened up the bishopric for him. He was postulated as Bishop of St. Andrews in 1402 at the insistence of Robert Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, who had promised him the position in return for handing over the castle. After a meeting between Albany and Thomas Stewart, the contemporary Bishop-elect in the summer of 1402, Thomas renounced his rights as Bishop and allowed a new "election" to take place. Walter was thereby elected as Bishop. However, the election came to nothing, as Walter died without confirmation that very same Christmas.


Xavier-Marie Baronnet

Xavier-Marie Baronnet S.J. (April 5, 1927 in Chantenay, France - September 8, 2012 in Paris, France) was a Jesuit who served as Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Port Victoria (or Seychelles) from his appointment in 1995 until his retirement in 2002.
Baronnet was ordained a Catholic priest on September 7, 1960. He was appointed the Bishop of Port Victoria o Seychelles on March 3, 1995, by Pope John Paul II. Baronnet was ordained on June 25, 1995. He served as Bishop until his retirement on June 1, 2002. He was succeeded by Bishop Denis Wiehe.


Saint Hyglac

Hyglac was an eighth century Catholic saint from Anglo-Saxon England.
Very little is known of the life of this saint and he is known to history through the hagiography of the Secgan Manuscript. However, he is best known through a letter from an anchorite Alchfrid (also known as Alcheriðus). In the letter, Hyglac is a "lector" of an unknown monastery in Northumbria (possibly York). The letter, an exhortation to live a Godly Life, appears to be text borrowed from the different sermons of various priests. It is preserved in a collection of letters of Alcuin.
Hyglac was possibly a teacher of Aediluulf, and was possibly a student of Alcuin.
His name derives from the Old German word for "Courage" and the archaic suffix, -lac meaning "to carry on an action", indicates he was Anglo Saxon.


Hour of Mercy


Entirely Beloved

"Entirely Beloved" is the second episode of the BBC Two series "Wolf Hall". It was first broadcast on 28 January 2015.
Plot summary.
In December 1529, following Cardinal Thomas Wolsey's departure as Lord Chancellor, Thomas Cromwell gains favor from King Henry VIII and is sworn into the king's Privy Council.
Critical reception.
"Entirely Beloved" received positive reviews. The "Daily Telegraph" again gave the episode 5/5; Reviewer Jasper Reeves also praised Straughan's dialogue and Peter Kosminsky's directing, writing, "It’s like watching a chess grandmaster go around a room playing 20 challengers at once. The spectacle is dizzying, and the acting magnificent."
Neela Debnath, writing for "The Independent", compared the intrigue and scheming in "Wolf Hall" to that of "Game of Thrones", writing, ""Game of Thrones" fans tuning in to watch "Wolf Hall" might notice similarities between the politicking in King's Landing and Henry VIII’s court – and they wouldn’t be wrong." Debnath praised the lead actor, writing, "Rylance continues to mesmerize as the man of questionable birth rising to become the king’s right-hand man. His calm, collected and measured performance really has the audience rooting for him."
In his review for "The Guardian", John Sutherland praised writer Peter Straughan, who wrote the teleplay based on Hilary Mantel's original book: "Straughan ... has been commendably faithful to Mantel while infusing new televisual life into the narrative.


Hierotheos the Thesmothete

Hierotheos the Thesmothete () is the reputed first head and bishop of the Christian Athenians. The title "thesmothete" means ruler, or junior archon, of Athens (literally "rule-setter").
Biography.
Little is known of Hierotheos (Ἰερόθεος "sanctified by God"); church tradition holds that he was one of the learned men in the city of Athens. He was instructed in Christianity by the Apostle Paul, who baptized and ordained him around the year 52 AD. Hierotheos frequently visited and instructed St. Dionysius the Areopagite. There is disagreement as to whether Hierotheos was actually a priest or bishop; some traditions describe Dionysius as the first bishop of Athens. The fifth century Neoplatonist, Pseudo-Dionysius spoke of Hierotheos. However, Pseudo-Dionysius adopted the earlier Dionysius as a pseudonym and literary device and thus he did not in fact know the original Hierotheos and the description of Hierotheos and his works that Pseudo Dionysius supplied was either purely fictional or a veiled tribute to a fifth-century contemporary of Pseudo-Dionysius. Thus there was an Hierotheos and there was also a Pseudo-Hierotheos.
According to Pseudo-Dionysius ("On the Divine Names", 3:2), Hierotheos was an accomplished hymnographer:
In more recent years, some have pointed that the name Hierotheos is unique in Greek literature, nor is included in the extremely wide list of proper name known from papyri. The only record of this name is found in a Greek inscription from Athens.
Hierotheos and the Dormition of the Theotokos.
Hierotheos was reportedly present during the dormition of the Theotokos (Mary, the Mother of God), and he stood in the midst of the apostles and comforted them with spiritual songs and hymns which he sang accompanied with musical instruments.


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