There, on December 14, 1978 he received the papal appointment to Bishop of Diocese of Nikopol.

He then passed to Rome, and had some papal appointment.

As late as the mid-19th century, in fact, direct papal appointment of bishops serving in territories not ruled directly by the Vatican remained rare.

On the other hand, some papal appointments were just as bad, or worse.

His elevation was not without controversy; the Republic of Venice prohibited any son of a Doge from accepting a papal appointment.

His greatest preferment, however, came with his papal appointment - on the king's request - to the see of Winchester in 1345.

The practice of papal appointment during this period would later give rise to the jus exclusivae, a veto right exercised by Catholic monarchies into the twentieth century.

Albert was backed by the Guelphs and they achieved his papal appointment on 17 July 1360.

Since then, Cardinals have been advanced to Cardinal Bishop exclusively by papal appointment.

Crescentius the Elder was a 10th-century politician and aristocrat in Rome who played a part in the papal appointment.