In total, one cardinal, 18 bishops, and 3,000 clergy of Frances supported an appeal to a general council.

The bishop of Roskilde has supported me stoutly throughout; we've become friends of a sort.

He drove from their sees those bishops who were in opposition to his will and supported the Pope.

But, according to people at the meeting, the bishop did not support the group's efforts to make the church more democratic or raise money outside the archdiocese.

A bishop in the Maitland-Newcastle diocese supported some form of public inquiry into the issue.

The bishops, he said, were not supporting the strikers, but offering assistance in the search for an end to the work stoppage.

The bishops should support those boundaries by encouraging voters to analyze candidates' qualifications.

It is not clear if Baldwin himself intended such a plan, but the other bishops supported the effort, as contemporary writers made clear.

During the rebellion the Irish Catholic bishops supported the government line.

Most American bishops do not support refusal of communion on these grounds.