506    The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.

1328    Antipope Nicholas V, a claimant to the papacy, is consecrated in Rome by the Bishop of Venice.

1539    Council of Trent: Paul III sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the Council due to war and the difficulty bishops had traveling to Venice.

1792    During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic Church bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.

1871    Bishop John Coleridge Patteson is martyred on the island of Nukapu, a Polynesian outlier island now in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands. He is the first bishop of Melanesia.

1886    The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham.