His bishop once assigned him to an impoverished town or barrio in Bogota, Colombia.

His bishop, yielding to his entreaties, assigned him the small mission at Princeton, Kentucky.

The bishop assigns a family to either the elders quorum or high priest quorum.

By the 1968 merger of the Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church, all bishops were assigned to these jurisdictions, and within them, each to one episcopal area.

The bishop then assigned him to serve as a missionary priest in several rural parishes until 1863, when he was named Rector of the Church of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles.

Now, in the normal course of events, a Methodist bishop in St. Louis assigned ministers to the Point of Rocks area.

The bishop assigned him to such duties as saying mass for the nuns and parishioners, providing for the education of the children, and supervising the building of several churches in the area.

The bishop assigned Prefontaine to the northern mission and he set up his headquarters in the only town that had a Catholic church, Port Townsend.

In a court trial there in 1998, a psychiatrist testified that he told Cardinal Mahony that a pedophile priest was a risk around children, but that the bishop assigned the priest to parish work anyway.

When Vianney's bishop first assigned him to Ars, he got lost trying to find the town.