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Episcopate :: Episcopate (n.) The collective body of bishops.

Crook :: Crook (n.) A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.

Acephali :: Acephali (n. pl.) Bishops and certain clergymen not under regular diocesan control.

Visitation :: Visitation (n.) Specifically: The act of a superior or superintending officer who, in the discharge of his office, visits a corporation, college, etc., to examine into the manner in which it is conducted, and see that its laws and regulations are duly observed and executed; as, the visitation of a diocese by a bishop..

Diocese :: Diocese (n.) The circuit or extent of a bishop's jurisdiction; the district in which a bishop exercises his ecclesiastical authority.

Sententiary :: Sententiary (n.) One who read lectures, or commented, on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris (1159-1160), a school divine..

Enthronization :: Enthronization (n.) The act of enthroning; hence, the admission of a bishop to his stall or throne in his cathedral..

Abba :: Abba (n.) Father; religious superior; -- in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch..

Bishoplike :: Bishoplike (a.) Resembling a bishop; belonging to a bishop.

Suffraganship :: Suffragan (a.) A bishop considered as an assistant, or as subject, to his metropolitan; an assistant bishop..

Bishoping :: Bishoping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bisho.

Bishop :: Bishop (n.) A beverage, being a mixture of wine, oranges or lemons, and sugar..

Paulianist :: Paulianist (n.) A follower of Paul of Samosata, a bishop of Antioch in the third century, who was deposed for denying the divinity of Christ..

Metropolitan :: Metropolitan (n.) The superior or presiding bishop of a country or province.

Lobbish :: Lobbish (a.) Like a lob; consisting of lobs.

Cathedral :: Cathedral (a.) Emanating from the chair of office, as of a pope or bishop; official; authoritative..

Bishop :: Bishop (v. t.) To make seem younger, by operating on the teeth; as, to bishop an old horse or his teeth..

Bullwort :: Bullwort (n.) See Bishop's-weed.

Metropolitan :: Metropolitan (n.) A bishop whose see is civil metropolis. His rank is intermediate between that of an archbishop and a patriarch.

Betroth :: Betroth (v. t.) To nominate to a bishopric, in order to consecration..

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