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Definitions of bishop in various dictionaries:
noun - a senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority
noun - port wine mulled with oranges and cloves
noun - (chess) a piece that can be moved diagonally over unoccupied squares of the same color
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| Thomas Coke & Francis Asbury, the 1st Methodist superintendents in America, soon took this other religious title |
| In 1989 Barbara Harris became the first woman in the history of the Episcopal Church to be made this |
| In Norway's state church only one of these men survived the Black Death; maybe he moved diagonally away |
| A church is called a cathedral when this official's chair, a cathedra in Latin, is there |
| In church, & on a chess board, it's from the Greek for "overseer" |
| At the start of a chess game, it's your piece just to the right of the white king |
| Here's Jimmy with the clue Each December 5th near Lucerne, hundreds of Swiss men don huge,candlelit, cardboard mitres, reminding usthat St. Nicholas was one of these Catholic officials |
| Title of any priest's immediate boss; the U.S. has 270 of them |
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| a senior member of the Christian clergy, usually in charge of a diocese and empowered to confer holy orders. |
| an African weaver bird, the male of which has red, orange, yellow, or black plumage. |
| A high-ranking Christian cleric, in modern churches usually in charge of a diocese and in some churches regarded as having received the highest ordination in unbroken succession from the apostles. |
| Games A usually miter-shaped chess piece that can move diagonally across any number of unoccupied spaces. |
| Mulled port spiced with oranges, sugar, and cloves. |
| (chess) a piece that can be moved diagonally over unoccupied squares of the same color |
| port wine mulled with oranges and cloves |
| a clergyman having spiritual and administrative authority appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve apostles of Christ |
| A senior member of the Christian clergy, usually in charge of a diocese and empowered to confer holy orders. |
| An African weaver bird, the male of which has red, orange, yellow, or black plumage. |
| Geographic Matches |
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| Bishop, WEST VIRGINIA, UNITED STATES |
| Bishop, NORTH CAROLINA, UNITED STATES |
| Bishop, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES |
| Bishop, TEXAS, UNITED STATES |
| Bishop description |
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A bishop (English derivation from the New Testament of the Christian Bible Greek , epískopos, "overseer", "guardian") is an ordained, consecrated, or appointed member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. * Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Anglican, Old Catholic and Independent Catholic churches and in the Assyrian Church of the East, bishops claim apostolic succession, a direct historical lineage dating back to the original Twelve Apostles. Within these churches, bishops are seen as those who possess the full priesthood and can ordain clergy including another bishop. Some Protestant churches including the Lutheran and Methodist churches have bishops serving similar functions as well, though not always understood to be within apostolic succession in the same way. One who has been ordained deacon, priest, and then bishop is understood to hold the fullness of the (ministerial) priesthood, given respo |
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