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Bishop :: Bishop (n.) A piece used in the game of chess, bearing a representation of a bishop's miter; -- formerly called archer..

Vidame :: Vidame (n.) One of a class of temporal officers who originally represented the bishops, but later erected their offices into fiefs, and became feudal nobles..

Bustle :: Bustle (n.) A kind of pad or cushion worn on the back below the waist, by women, to give fullness to the skirts; -- called also bishop, and tournure..

Apse :: Apse (n.) A projecting part of a building, esp. of a church, having in the plan a polygonal or semicircular termination, and, most often, projecting from the east end. In early churches the Eastern apse was occupied by seats for the bishop and clergy..

Provincial :: Provincial (a.) Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod..

Zuchetto :: Zuchetto (n.) A skullcap covering the tonsure, worn under the berretta. The pope's is white; a cardinal's red; a bishop's purple; a priest's black..

Episcopacy :: Episcopacy (n.) Government of the church by bishops; church government by three distinct orders of ministers -- bishops, priests, and deacons -- of whom the bishops have an authority superior and of a different kind..

Presentative :: Presentative (a.) Having the right of presentation, or offering a clergyman to the bishop for institution; as, advowsons are presentative, collative, or donative..

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

Archierey :: Archierey (n.) The higher order of clergy in Russia, including metropolitans, archbishops, and bishops..

Bishop :: Bishop (n.) A spiritual overseer, superintendent, or director..

Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A bishop's council.

Athanasian :: Athanasian (a.) Of or pertaining to Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria in the 4th century..

Synodal :: Synodal (n.) A tribute in money formerly paid to the bishop or archdeacon, at the time of his Easter visitation, by every parish priest, now made to the ecclesiastical commissioners; a procuration..

Presentation :: Presentation (n.) The act of offering a clergyman to the bishop or ordinary for institution in a benefice; the right of presenting a clergyman.

Confirmation :: Confirmation (n.) A rite supplemental to baptism, by which a person is admitted, through the laying on of the hands of a bishop, to the full privileges of the church, as in the Roman Catholic, the Episcopal Church, etc..

Gremial :: Gremial (n.) A cloth, often adorned with gold or silver lace, placed on the bishop's lap while he sits in celebrating mass, or in ordaining priests..

Option :: Option (n.) A right formerly belonging to an archbishop to select any one dignity or benefice in the gift of a suffragan bishop consecrated or confirmed by him, for bestowal by himself when next vacant; -- annulled by Parliament in 1845..

Metropolitanate :: Metropolitanate (n.) The see of a metropolitan bishop.

Exeat :: Exeat (n.) A permission which a bishop grants to a priest to go out of his diocese.

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