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Still, Republicans think they have a shot at flipping Bishop’s seat if Biden’s approval ratings remain low and inflation keeps prices high at grocery stores and gas pumps.

The service will include traditions such as anointing Bishop Lane with oil, and she will sit in the cathedra - the bishop's seat - for the first time.

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At the Grand Bishop's Seat of Gardar, 35 kilometers away by boat from the modest farm at Tasilikulooq, grass grows around the ruins of a cathedral, the bishop's residence, and myriad other buildings probably built by stonemasons shipped in from Norway.

The departure marked the end of the Christian era of Azeh, which had been a bishop’s seat as early as the second century and home to a Christian population of several thousand until the late 1970s.

Leo is perhaps the first man who, all things considered, can be called "pope" in the modern sense of the term, although certain of his predecessors in the bishop's seat at the imperial capital had long claimed and exercised a peculiar measure of authority over their fellow bishops throughout the Empire.

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