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Diocese

Christian district or see under the supervision of a bishop

9 dated entries naming Diocese, drawn from 9 separate years between 631 CE and 1111 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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7th century

  • 631Emperor Heraclius appoints Cyrus, patriarch of Alexandria, with power to act as viceroy (dioikesis) of Egypt. He begins a 10-year persecution against the non-Chalcedonian Coptic Christians.source

8th century

  • 738Boniface visits Rome, and is made papal legate of the Frankish Kingdom. He establishes many bishoprics in Bavaria.source
  • 739Boniface, Anglo-Saxon missionary who has been Christianizing Bavaria, founds the bishoprics of Salzburg, Regensburg, Freising, and Passau.source

9th century

  • 803October 12 – The Synod of Clofesho (possibly Brixworth) is held, at which the Archbishopric of Lichfield is demoted to an ordinary bishopric, with papal permission obtained by King Coenwulf of Mercia.source
  • 824Vikings raid Bangor (modern Wales) for the second time, and plunder the bishopric (approximate date).source
  • 880The first known Christian bishopric in Slovakia is established in the city of Nitra, with Wiching as bishop.source

10th century

  • 909Asser, bishop of Sherborne, dies. His See is divided, there are new Bishoprics created at Wells, Crediton, Ramsbury and Sonning.source

11th century

  • 1092April 21 – The Diocese of Pisa is elevated to the dignity of a metropolitan archdiocese by Pope Urban II.source

12th century

  • 1111The Synod of Rathbreasail marks the transition of the Irish church from a monastic to a diocesan structure.source

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