1.   They returned to Marseilles and were baptised by Maximinus who became the first bishop of Aix.

2.   Bishop Moore, the first black bishop of the New York archdiocese, was a founder and chairman of the archdiocesan Office for Black Ministry.

3.   According to one story, Archbishop John Carroll of Baltimore, the first American bishop, badly needed teachers.

4.   Denis flourished in the first century as the first bishop of Paris.

5.   He is the first bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church to be installed in North America.

6.   He is the first bishop chosen by election rather than appointment and will be consecrated by the outgoing bishop in November.

7.   He will often be the first bishop quoted on significant issues and will intercede in Rome for the American church.

8.   If elected, he would become the first openly homosexual bishop in the Episcopal Church.

9.   In choosing Croneberger, the diocese did not take the opportunity to elect the first openly gay bishop.

10.   It was a rich church when Classe was the prosperous port for Ravenna in the sixth century, saluting Apollinare, the first Catholic bishop of the area.