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

Bishop :: Bishop (n.) A beverage, being a mixture of wine, oranges or lemons, and sugar..

Bishoply :: Bishoply (adv.) In the manner of a bishop.

Luciferian :: Luciferian (n.) One of the followers of Lucifer, bishop of Cagliari, in the fourth century, who separated from the orthodox churches because they would not go as far as he did in opposing the Arians..

Primate :: Primate (a.) The chief ecclesiastic in a national church; one who presides over other bishops in a province; an archbishop.

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

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

Faldstool :: Faldstool (n.) A folding stool, or portable seat, made to fold up in the manner of a camo stool. It was formerly placed in the choir for a bishop, when he offciated in any but his own cathedral church..

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

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..

Chorepiscopus :: Chorepiscopus (n.) A country or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural district..

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

Institutor :: Institutor (n.) A presbyter appointed by the bishop to institute a rector or assistant minister over a parish church.

Benediction :: Benediction (n.) The form of instituting an abbot, answering to the consecration of a bishop..

Stoled :: Stole (n.) A narrow band of silk or stuff, sometimes enriched with embroidery and jewels, worn on the left shoulder of deacons, and across both shoulders of bishops and priests, pendent on each side nearly to the ground. At Mass, it is worn crossed on the breast by priests. It is used in various sacred functions..

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

Archiepiscopacy :: Archiepiscopacy (n.) That form of episcopacy in which the chief power is in the hands of archbishops.

Pope :: Pope (n.) The bishop of Rome, the head of the Roman Catholic Church. See Note under Cardinal..

Chrism :: Chrism (n.) Olive oil mixed with balm and spices, consecrated by the bishop on Maundy Thursday, and used in the administration of baptism, confirmation, ordination, etc..

Bishopric :: Bishopric (n.) A diocese; the district over which the jurisdiction of a bishop extends.

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