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

Cross-bearer :: Cross-bearer (n.) A subdeacon who bears a cross before an archbishop or primate on solemn occasions.

Bishop''s-wort :: Bishop's-wort (n.) Wood betony (Stachys betonica); also, the plant called fennel flower (Nigella Damascena), or devil-in-a-bush..

Macedonian :: Macedonian (n.) One of a certain religious sect, followers of Macedonius, Bishop of Constantinople, in the fourth century, who held that the Holy Ghost was a creature, like the angels, and a servant of the Father and the Son..

Episcopate :: Episcopate (n.) A bishopric; the office and dignity of a bishop.

Enthronize :: Enthronize (v. t.) To place on a throne; hence, to induct into office, as a bishop..

See :: See (n.) Specifically: (a) The seat of episcopal power; a diocese; the jurisdiction of a bishop; as, the see of New York. (b) The seat of an archibishop; a province or jurisdiction of an archibishop; as, an archiepiscopal see. (c) The seat, place, or office of the pope, or Roman pontiff; as, the papal see. (d) The pope or his court at Rome; as, to appeal to the see of Rome..

Ordinal :: Ordinal (n.) The book of forms for making, ordaining, and consecrating bishops, priests, and deacons..

Suffragan :: Suffragan (a.) Assisting; assistant; as, a suffragan bishop..

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

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

Episcopate :: Episcopate (n.) The time of a bishop's rule.

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

College :: College (n.) A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges; as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops..

Episcopize :: Episcopize (v. t.) To make a bishop of by consecration.

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

Dalmatic :: Dalmatic (n.) A vestment with wide sleeves, and with two stripes, worn at Mass by deacons, and by bishops at pontifical Mass; -- imitated from a dress originally worn in Dalmatia..

Surrogate :: Surrogate (n.) The deputy of an ecclesiastical judge, most commonly of a bishop or his chancellor, especially a deputy who grants marriage licenses..

Commendam :: Commendam (n.) A vacant living or benefice commended to a cleric (usually a bishop) who enjoyed the revenue until a pastor was provided. A living so held was said to be held in commendam. The practice was abolished by law in 1836.

Bishoped :: Bishoped (imp. & p. p.) of Bisho.

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