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n. The position, term, or office of a bishop.

n. The area of jurisdiction of a bishop; a diocese.

n. Bishops considered as a group. Also called episcopacy.

n. Bishops seen as a group.

n. The tenure in office of a bishop.

n. A bishop's jurisdiction, the extent of his diocese.

n. A bishopric; the office and dignity of a bishop.

n. The collective body of bishops.

n. The time of a bishop's rule.

verb-intransitive. To act as a bishop; to fill the office of a prelate.

To act as a bishop; fill the office of a prelate.

n. The office and dignity of a bishop; a bishopric.

n. The incumbency of a bishop.

n. The order of bishops; the episcopal institution; a body of bishops.

n. the office and dignity of a bishop

n. the collective body of bishops

n. the term of office of a bishop

n. the territorial jurisdiction of a bishop

"Certainly we can't ignore the first clause of Ignatius 'passage concerning the bishop, but the extent to which a particular model of the episcopate is so privileged in modern Roman Catholic thought as a gate keeper for universality seems to go against the original usage of the term catholic, which at base is Christological."

office    billet    position    berth    post    place    situation    spot    people    incumbency   

episcopated    episcopating   

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