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    The bishop of Durham is responsible for the diocese of Durham in the province of York. The diocese is one of the oldest in England and its bishop is a...
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    Bishop Auckland (/ˈɔːk.lənd/ AWK-lənd) is a market town and civil parish at the confluence of the River Wear and the River Gaunless in County Durham, England...
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    1836 the city was part of the County Palatine of Durham, a semi-independent jurisdiction ruled by the prince bishops of Durham which acted as a geopolitical...
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    with the Bishops of Durham, who for centuries governed Durham as a county palatine (the County Palatine of Durham) outside the usual structure of county...
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    is the seat of the bishop of Durham, and the diocesan offices are located just outside the city at Stonebridge. The bishop lives in Bishop Auckland and...
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    March 1311) was a bishop of Durham and the Patriarch of Jerusalem. Bek and his elder brother Thomas Bek were members of a family of knights. Their father...
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    Justin Welby (redirect from Bishop Welby)
    St John's College, Durham. He served in a number of parish churches before becoming Dean of Liverpool in 2007 and Bishop of Durham in 2011, serving in...
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    bishop and a former Lord Spiritual of the House of Lords. He was installed and enthroned in Durham Cathedral on 22 February 2014 and was the Bishop of...
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    cathedral in the city of Durham, England. The cathedral is the seat of the bishop of Durham and is the mother church of the diocese of Durham. It also contains...
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    role as the residence of the Bishops of Durham. Designated since 1986 as a cultural World Heritage Site in England, along with Durham Cathedral, the castle...
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  • was the last Anglo-Saxon bishop of Durham, the last who was not also a secular ruler, and the only English bishop at the time of the Norman Conquest who...
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    Pauline theologian and Anglican bishop. He was the bishop of Durham from 2003 to 2010. He then became research professor of New Testament and Early Christianity...
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    The County Palatine of Durham was a jurisdiction in the North of England, within which the bishop of Durham had rights usually exclusive to the monarch...
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    Once the City of Durham had been founded, the Bishops of Durham gradually acquired the lands that would become County Durham. Bishop Aldhun began this...
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    college of Durham University in England. Centred on Durham Castle on Palace Green, it was founded in 1832 by William van Mildert, Bishop of Durham. As a...
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    the "Durham Gospels", but more usually as the "Durham Gospel Fragment". The Durham Gospels are used at the Enthronement of each new Bishop of Durham, for...
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  • January 1925 – 4 September 2016) was a Church of England cleric and theologian. He was Bishop of Durham from 1984 until 1994. After his retirement, he...
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    Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate public research university in Durham, England, founded by an Act of Parliament in...
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  • 42 bishops diocesan (including vacancies). Of the 42: both archbishops and the Bishops of London, of Durham and of Winchester, sit in the House of Lords...
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  • bishop. Since 2019, she has served as Bishop of Jarrow, the suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Durham in the Church of England. She was Archdeacon of...
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    Durham House, also known as Durham Inn, was the historic London town house of the Bishop of Durham in the Strand. Its gardens descended to the River Thames...
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    Bishop Middleham is a village in County Durham, in England. The population of the parish as taken at the 2011 census was 1,275 It is close to Sedgefield...
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  • Morice v Bishop of Durham [1805] EWHC Ch J80 is an English trusts law case, concerning the policy of the beneficiary principle. General Mordaunt Cracherode...
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  • cargo ship of the United States Navy Durham (poem), an Old English poem Durham (surname) Bishop of Durham, an Anglican bishop office Earl of Durham, a British...
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  • Earl of Somerset 4 February 1615 – 20 November 1617 Richard Neile, Bishop of Durham 20 November 1617 – 10 December 1627 vacant John Howson, Bishop of Durham...
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    Thomas Wolsey (category Bishops of Durham)
    became Bishop of Durham, a post with wide political powers, and thus became known as Prince-Bishop of Durham. In 1529 he moved on from the bishop position...
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  • Church of England bishop. He was ordained in 1961 and in 1988 he was consecrated as the Bishop of Rochester. In 1994, he became the Bishop of Durham until...
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  • Hugh de Puiset (redirect from Bishop Puiset)
    a medieval Bishop of Durham and Chief Justiciar of England under King Richard I. He was the nephew of King Stephen of England and Henry of Blois, who...
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    archbishops as suffragan sees. Of these, Durham was practically independent, for the palatine bishops of that see were little short of sovereigns in their own...
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    Richard Poore (category Bishops of Durham)
    Old Sarum. He served as Bishop of Chichester, Bishop of Salisbury and Bishop of Durham. Poore was probably the son of Richard of Ilchester, also known as...
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