As regards candidates for ecclesiastical offices, the concordats concluded with Catholic nations regularly give the sovereign the right to nominate or present to bishoprics, often also to other inferior benefices, such as canonries, important parishes and abbeys; or at least the choice of the ecclesiastical authority is submitted to the approval of the civil power. [Please select]
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Albans, and of the bishoprics of Bath and Wells, Durham and Winchester. [Please select]
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Bishoprics, once conferred for wisdom and piety, had become prizes for the rapacious and ambitious. [Please select]
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With the accession of Elizabeth these men returned to England in force and became prominent in church and state, many of them receiving bishoprics. [Please select]
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The mode of appointment to bishoprics and abbacies was different among them from what it was in the rest of the country. [Please select]
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