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Bishop Mauritus Ferber of Warmia

• ... that bishop Mauritius Ferber (pictured) of Warmia was treated for illness several times by the physician-astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus?
• ... that when Robert de Bethune was nominated Bishop of Hereford in 1130, King Henry I of England did so because he felt he needed one "godly bishop" around?
• ... that Toto's seizure of power in Rome in 767 is one of the first indications that the military aristocracy believed that supreme power in Rome rested with the papal office?