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Definition of bishop

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Bishop (n.) In the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Anglican or Protestant Episcopal churches, one ordained to the highest order of the ministry, superior to the priesthood, and generally claiming to be a successor of the Apostles. The bishop is usually the spiritual head or ruler of a diocese, bishopric, or see..

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Grace :: Grace (n.) The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England..

Bishop :: Bishop (v. t.) To admit into the church by confirmation; to confirm; hence, to receive formally to favor..

Admission :: Admission (n.) Declaration of the bishop that he approves of the presentee as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented.

Crosier :: Crosier (n.) The pastoral staff of a bishop (also of an archbishop, being the symbol of his office as a shepherd of the flock of God..

Immaterialism :: Immaterialism (n.) The doctrine that external bodies may be reduced to mind and ideas in a mind; any doctrine opposed to materialism or phenomenalism, esp. a system that maintains the immateriality of the soul; idealism; esp., Bishop Berkeley's theory of idealism..

Bishop''s-weed :: Bishop's-weed (n.) Goutweed (Aegopodium podagraria).

Archprelate :: Archprelate (n.) An archbishop or other chief prelate.

Throne :: Throne (n.) A chair of state, commonly a royal seat, but sometimes the seat of a prince, bishop, or other high dignitary..

Episcopal :: Episcopal (a.) Governed by bishops; as, an episcopal church..

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

Goutwort :: Goutwort (n.) A coarse umbelliferous plant of Europe (Aegopodium Podagraria); -- called also bishop's weed, ashweed, and herb gerard..

Verger :: Verger (n.) An attendant upon a dignitary, as on a bishop, a dean, a justice, etc..

Consistory :: Consistory (n.) The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere.

Sarum Use :: Sarum use () A liturgy, or use, put forth about 1087 by St. Osmund, bishop of Sarum, based on Anglo-Saxon and Norman customs..

Dean :: Dean (n.) A dignitary or presiding officer in certain ecclesiastical and lay bodies; esp., an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop..

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

Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (n.) An officer in some dioceses since A. D. 1215, vested with power from the bishop to absolve in cases reserved to him..

Archdeacon :: Archdeacon (n.) In England, an ecclesiastical dignitary, next in rank below a bishop, whom he assists, and by whom he is appointed, though with independent authority..

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

Fanon :: Fanon (n.) A term applied to various articles, as: (a) A peculiar striped scarf worn by the pope at mass, and by eastern bishops. (b) A maniple..