When the peasants refused to pay, the bishop excommunicated them.

Although this idea was eventually left aside, one bishop did excommunicate Congress members under his jurisdiction.

I have never suggested that any other bishop should excommunicate anybody.

The argument mounted to the point where the bishops mutually excommunicated each other.

In June 1480, as an act of retaliation, the bishop excommunicated him, an action which was considered immensely serious in those days.

Once he was safe the Bishop excommunicated Herbert and then continued his warring against with him.

As a consequence, the Bishop of Nitra excommunicated him and his followers again.

The bishop excommunicated the king and those members of the Council of Breslau who sided with him.

Defacement of Catholic icons reached a peak that summer and the bishop excommunicated the Genevans.

Eventually the Bishop excommunicated the King.