Example sentences of "[verb] [been] bishop " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bishop Peter has been bishop of Gloucester for just eight months and Prince Charles was among the guests at his enthronement in April . |
| 2 | But he had been Bishop of Durham for less than three years , and was in a see which fitted his gifts perfectly . |
| 3 | Ramsey asked the pointed question whether William Temple would have been able to write if he had been Bishop of London and not Archbishop of York . |
| 4 | Perhaps the most important stimulus to the musico-liturgical development of this whole period was the introduction of Roman chant under Pepin III , father of Charlemagne , at Metz cathedral where a saintly ancestor ( Arnulph ) had been bishop in the previous century . |
| 5 | Further theological and pastoral training came at St Augustine 's Missionary College , Canterbury , where Arthur Knight was Warden , after being invalided home from Burma , where he had been Bishop of Rangoon from 1902 to 1910 . |
| 6 | Much of his youth was spent in Clermont , a city where the latter had been bishop , and his mentor there was Avitus , whose name indicates that he came from the same family as Sidonius 's father-in-law . |