Any bishop who speaks otherwise loses his authority, at least on the issue on which he has spoken.

Until the bishops lost their temporal powers with the French invasion of 1794, they did not cease to assert their claims.

Or if they survived, at least the bishop, comforted and relaxed, lost all awareness of them.

One bishop has lost his position for mishandling abusers.

Although the fighting bishop lost his suit against the government, the latter decided to change the design of the controversial stamp.

Bloet allegedly told Huntingdon that the bishop had lost two lawsuits.

He added, "For better or worse, bishops have lost a lot of their moral authority.

The bishop lost his three sheriffdoms, and retired to Normandy.

Thus, the white bishop had lost most of its effectiveness.

When the bishops lost their political power in 1803 the abbey started to belong to the town.