{"slug": "episcopal-see", "label": "Episcopal see", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episcopal_see", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q866196", "qid": "Q866196", "description": "main administrative seat held by a bishop", "entries": 14, "years": 14, "span": [340, 1279], "span_label": ["340 CE", "1279 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 10}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "wilfrid", "label": "Wilfrid", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "york", "label": "York", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "northumbria", "label": "Northumbria", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "rome", "label": "Rome", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "netherlands", "label": "Netherlands", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "frisia", "label": "Frisia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "willibrord", "label": "Willibrord", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "france", "label": "France", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "neustria", "label": "Neustria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "merovingian-dynasty", "label": "Merovingian dynasty", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "chilperic-i", "label": "Chilperic I", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "london", "label": "London", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 340, "year_label": "340 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Acacius succeeds Eusebius as bishop in the see of Caesarea.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1281359942#Religion", "title": "340", "revid": 1281359942, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 365, "year_label": "365 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Valens orders the expulsion of the Alexandrian bishop Athanasius from his see, but instead of going into exile Athanasius, now about 67, moves to the outskirts of Alexandria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1286254673#Religion", "title": "AD 365", "revid": 1286254673, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 388, "year_label": "388 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Paternus becomes bishop of the Episcopal see of Braga (Portugal).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1321355496#Religion", "title": "388", "revid": 1321355496, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 579, "year_label": "579 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Heavy taxes levied by Merovingian king Chilperic I of Neustria produce a revolt at Limoges (central France), as he sells bishoprics to the highest bidder.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267073496#Europe", "title": "579", "revid": 1267073496, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 634, "year_label": "634 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Aidan of Lindisfarne, Irish missionary, is summoned by King Oswald from Iona (Inner Hebrides) to establish a bishopric on the holy island of Lindisfarne, and reestablish Christianity in Northumbria (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1299946990#Religion", "title": "634", "revid": 1299946990, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 678, "year_label": "678 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Wilfrid, bishop of York, is at the height of his power and owns vast estates throughout Northumbria. After his refusal to agree to a division of his see, Ecgfrith and Theodore, archbishop of Canterbury, have him banished from Northumbria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352010309#Religion", "title": "678", "revid": 1352010309, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 691, "year_label": "691 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Wilfrid, abbot of Ripon, tries to make himself bishop of all Northumbria. King Aldfrith seizes many of his Ripon Abbey estates, and proposes to create a bishopric there. Wilfrid is banished and flees to Mercia, where King Æthelred makes him bishop of Leicester.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340806265#Religion", "title": "691", "revid": 1340806265, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 703, "year_label": "703 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Wilfrid, Anglo-Saxon bishop, travels to Rome again, and is supported in his struggle to retain his see of York by the pope. On his way Wilfrid stops in Frisia (modern Netherlands), to visit Willibrord.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340807078#Religion", "title": "703", "revid": 1340807078, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 735, "year_label": "735 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The see of York receives the pallium from pope Gregory III, and is elevated to an archbishopric. Ecgbert becomes the first archbishop.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340809672#Religion", "title": "735", "revid": 1340809672, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 744, "year_label": "744 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "June", "text": "June – Pope Zachary gives his approval by sending Abel, Grimo and Hartbert their palliums for the metropolitan sees of Reims, Rouen and Sens.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1305046877#Religion", "title": "744", "revid": 1305046877, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 773, "year_label": "773 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Saxon Wars: Saxon forces seize upon Charlemagne's preoccupation with Italy to retake Eresburg and Syburg (near Dortmund). They unsuccessfully attack the episcopal centre of Büraburg, which had been established by St. Boniface (see 723).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369635460#Europe", "title": "773", "revid": 1369635460, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 909, "year_label": "909 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Asser, bishop of Sherborne, dies. His See is divided, there are new Bishoprics created at Wells, Crediton, Ramsbury and Sonning.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367656270#Religion", "title": "909", "revid": 1367656270, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 1094, "year_label": "1094 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "King Ladislaus I of Hungary founds a diocese (alongside the bishop's see) in Zagreb.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365267917#Religion", "title": "1094", "revid": 1365267917, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 1279, "year_label": "1279 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "The Royal Mint is moved into the Tower of London. Mints outside London are reduced, with only a few local and episcopal mints continuing to operate.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362487704#England", "title": "1279", "revid": 1362487704, "section": "Events › By place › England"}}]}