Example sentences of "was elected bishop " in BNC.
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| 1 | In April 1244 he was elected Bishop of Chichester on the king 's nomination , but Boniface of Savoy , the Archbishop of Canterbury , rejected him as ignorant , and declared his election void ; his rejection was confirmed by Innocent IV . |
| 2 | What is also remarkable is that Stanford was born on St. Leonard 's day , was elected bishop of Durham on St. Leonard 's day and was buried in St. Leonard 's Priory . |
| 3 | Arnulf was elected bishop of Lisieux in 1141 . |
| 4 | Laszlo Tokes , the pastor of the Protestant Reformed Church in Timisoara , whose forced removal from his parish began the revolt against Ceausescu , was elected Bishop of Oradea on March 29 , 1990 , in place of the disgraced ex-Bishop Laszlo Papp , who fled Romania after the revolution . |
| 5 | In 573 , however , he was elected bishop of Tours . |
| 6 | Desiderius was well-educated in the law and became treasurer to Chlothar II ; he succeeded one brother , Syagrius , as governor of Marseilles , and subsequently he was elected bishop of Cahors in place of his other brother , Rusticus , who had been murdered . |