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Cobishop :: Cobishop (n.) A joint or coadjutant bishop.

Episcopate :: Episcopate (n.) The time of a bishop's rule.

Crook :: Crook (n.) A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.

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

Confirmation :: Confirmation (n.) A rite supplemental to baptism, by which a person is admitted, through the laying on of the hands of a bishop, to the full privileges of the church, as in the Roman Catholic, the Episcopal Church, etc..

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

Vidame :: Vidame (n.) One of a class of temporal officers who originally represented the bishops, but later erected their offices into fiefs, and became feudal nobles..

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..

Berretta :: Berretta (n.) A square cap worn by ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic Church. A cardinal's berretta is scarlet; that worn by other clerics is black, except that a bishop's is lined with green..

Archiepiscopal :: Archiepiscopal (a.) Of or pertaining to an archbishop; as, Canterbury is an archiepiscopal see..

Gremial :: Gremial (n.) A cloth, often adorned with gold or silver lace, placed on the bishop's lap while he sits in celebrating mass, or in ordaining priests..

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..

Town :: Town (adv. & prep.) Any number or collection of houses to which belongs a regular market, and which is not a city or the see of a bishop..

Presbyter :: Presbyter (n.) An elder in the early Christian church. See 2d Citation under Bishop, n., 1..

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

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

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

Encyclical :: Encyclical (a.) Sent to many persons or places; intended for many, or for a whole order of men; general; circular; as, an encyclical letter of a council, of a bishop, or the pope..

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

Ordinal :: Ordinal (n.) The book of forms for making, ordaining, and consecrating bishops, priests, and deacons..

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