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Bishop''s Cap :: Bishop's cap () A plant of the genus Mitella; miterwort.

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..

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

Official :: Official (a.) An ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction..

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Episcopate :: Episcopate (n.) A bishopric; the office and dignity of a bishop.

Athanasian :: Athanasian (a.) Of or pertaining to Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria in the 4th century..

Bishop :: Bishop (n.) An old name for a woman's bustle.

Suffraganship :: Suffragan (a.) A bishop considered as an assistant, or as subject, to his metropolitan; an assistant bishop..

Provincial :: Provincial (a.) Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod..

Suffragan :: Suffragan (a.) Assisting; assistant; as, a suffragan bishop..

Acephali :: Acephali (n. pl.) Bishops and certain clergymen not under regular diocesan control.

Apse :: Apse (n.) A projecting part of a building, esp. of a church, having in the plan a polygonal or semicircular termination, and, most often, projecting from the east end. In early churches the Eastern apse was occupied by seats for the bishop and clergy..

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