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Episcopize :: Episcopize (v. i.) To perform the duties of a bishop.

Visit :: Visit (v. t.) To go or come to see for inspection, examination, correction of abuses, etc.; to examine, to inspect; as, a bishop visits his diocese; a superintendent visits persons or works under his charge..

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

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..

Collation :: Collation (v. t.) The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift..

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

Visitation :: Visitation (n.) Specifically: The act of a superior or superintending officer who, in the discharge of his office, visits a corporation, college, etc., to examine into the manner in which it is conducted, and see that its laws and regulations are duly observed and executed; as, the visitation of a diocese by a bishop..

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.

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

Unmitre :: Unmitre (v. t.) To deprive of a miter; to depose or degrade from the rank of a bishop.

Eusebian :: Eusebian (n.) A follower of Eusebius, bishop of Caesarea, who was a friend and protector of Arius..

Commendatory :: Commendatory (a.) Holding a benefice in commendam; as, a commendatory bishop..

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..

Archbishopric :: Archbishopric (n.) The jurisdiction or office of an archbishop; the see or province over which archbishop exercises archiepiscopal authority.

Procuration :: Procuration (n.) A sum of money paid formerly to the bishop or archdeacon, now to the ecclesiastical commissioners, by an incumbent, as a commutation for entertainment at the time of visitation; -- called also proxy..

Bishopdom :: Bishopdom (n.) Jurisdiction of a bishop; episcopate.

Episcopate :: Episcopate (v. i.) To act as a bishop; to fill the office of a prelate.

Hierarchy :: Hierarchy (n.) A form of government administered in the church by patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in an inferior degree, by priests..

Episcopicide :: Episcopicide (n.) The killing of a bishop.

Archbishop :: Archbishop (n.) A chief bishop; a church dignitary of the first class (often called a metropolitan or primate) who superintends the conduct of the suffragan bishops in his province, and also exercises episcopal authority in his own diocese..

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