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Crociary :: Crociary (n.) One who carries the cross before an archbishop.

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

City :: City (n.) A corporate town; in the United States, a town or collective body of inhabitants, incorporated and governed by a mayor and aldermen or a city council consisting of a board of aldermen and a common council; in Great Britain, a town corporate, which is or has been the seat of a bishop, or the capital of his see..

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

Deaconess :: Deaconess (n.) A woman set apart for church work by a bishop.

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

Collative :: Collative (a.) Passing or held by collation; -- said of livings of which the bishop and the patron are the same person.

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

Lord :: Lord (n.) A titled nobleman., whether a peer of the realm or not; a bishop, as a member of the House of Lords; by courtesy; the son of a duke or marquis, or the eldest son of an earl; in a restricted sense, a boron, as opposed to noblemen of higher rank..

Synodal :: Synodal (n.) A tribute in money formerly paid to the bishop or archdeacon, at the time of his Easter visitation, by every parish priest, now made to the ecclesiastical commissioners; a procuration..

Paulianist :: Paulianist (n.) A follower of Paul of Samosata, a bishop of Antioch in the third century, who was deposed for denying the divinity of Christ..

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

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

Succession :: Succession (n.) A series of persons or things according to some established rule of precedence; as, a succession of kings, or of bishops; a succession of events in chronology..

Archiepiscopate :: Archiepiscopate (n.) The office of an archbishop; an archbishopric.

Palace :: Palace (n.) The official residence of a bishop or other distinguished personage.

Bishop :: Bishop (n.) A spiritual overseer, superintendent, or director..

Episcopal :: Episcopal (a.) Belonging to, or vested in, bishops; as, episcopal jurisdiction or authority; the episcopal system..

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..

Archdiocese :: Archdiocese (n.) The diocese of an archbishop.

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