Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The office or rank of a bishop.
- noun The diocese of a bishop.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office or dignity of a bishop.
- noun The district over which the jurisdiction of a bishop extends; a diocese.
- noun The charge of instructing and governing in spiritual concerns; overseership.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A diocese; the district over which the jurisdiction of a bishop extends.
- noun The office of a spiritual overseer, as of an apostle, bishop, or presbyter.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
diocese or region of a church which abishop governs. - noun The
office or function of being abishop
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the territorial jurisdiction of a bishop
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The twenty-five years 'bishopric is chronologically impossible, as it would make Peter, at the interview with Paul at Antioch, to have been then for some years bishop of Rome!
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This town, as I observed before, belongs to the Bishop of Liege, but was now in a state of tumult and confusion, on account of the general revolt of the Low Countries, the townsmen taking part with the Netherlanders, notwithstanding the bishopric was a neutral State.
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The see was afterwards known as the bishopric of Lismore, and contained the following deaneries: Kintyre, with twelve parishes; Glassary or
Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Herbert Story
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The appointment to the bishopric was the beginning of a new system.
William the Conqueror Freeman, E A 1913
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If your Majesty considers it fitting to approve this so useful and even so necessary proposition, your bishop is of the opinion, as he has already intimated, that the see of the new bishopric can be determined, and that it may be entitled the bishopric of Panay or of Jaro -- which is a well-populated village, as I have said above.
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The considerable extent of this bishopric, which is the largest in the Filipinas Islands -- whose provinces are widely separated from one another, some of those provinces even being composed of numerous islets as its separate parts -- has given occasion for various petitions proposing the division of this bishopric into two parts, as a matter of greater advantage to the Church and to the State.
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The appointment to the bishopric was the beginning of a new system.
William the Conqueror Edward Augustus Freeman 1857
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A bishopric was a very small temptation to him, and the commissioner improved his inflexibility to have his life taken away, to be a terror to others, that they might have the less opposition in establishing prelacy.
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This town, as I observed before, belongs to the Bishop of Liege, but was now in a state of tumult and confusion, on account of the general revolt of the Low Countries, the townsmen taking part with the Netherlanders, notwithstanding the bishopric was a neutral State.
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois — Complete [Court memoir series] Queen Marguerite 1584
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This town, as I observed before, belongs to the Bishop of Liege, but was now in a state of tumult and confusion, on account of the general revolt of the Low Countries, the townsmen taking part with the Netherlanders, notwithstanding the bishopric was a neutral State.
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois — Volume 2 [Court memoir series] Queen Marguerite 1584
super-logos commented on the word bishopric
And I thought it was short for Bishop Richard.
August 9, 2008
dameaning commented on the word bishopric
the extremity most cited as the cause of the fall of what Milton called our "corrupted clergy"
May 25, 2009
yarb commented on the word bishopric
Sounds like a unit of measurement - I suppose it is, in a way.
May 25, 2009