In 1937 d'Herbigny was forced to abdicate his episcopal dignities and forbidden from any public activity whatsoever.

His zeal and success in the government of this diocese fully justified his selection for the episcopal dignity.

Bassianus and Stephen were retired on a pension with episcopal dignity.

Before his elevation to the episcopal dignity, Leander had been a monk, and it was through his influence that Florentina embraced the ascetic life.

The case was even more serious for Wenceslaus II, because he doesn't have yet the King's approval for his episcopal dignity.

He was the episcopus Gasconum, bishop of the Gascons, from 978, holding the episcopal dignity in all the Gascon sees.

This right originated rather in the great respect in which the episcopal dignity was held in the early centuries of Christianity, than in any definite enactment.

He is said to have been honoured with the episcopal dignity, about the middle of the sixth century.

Vergerio was convicted of heresy in 34 points, deposed from his episcopal dignity, and made subject to arrest.

He did not bend from his episcopal dignity, hut he growled, "I'll see if he's around."