(n.) A spiritual overseer, superintendent, or director.
(n.) In the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Anglican or Protestant Episcopal churches, one ordained to the highest order of the ministry, superior to the priesthood, and generally claiming to be a successor of the Apostles. The bishop is usually the spiritual head or ruler of a diocese, bishopric, or see.
(n.) In the Methodist Episcopal and some other churches, one of the highest church officers or superintendents.
(n.) A piece used in the game of chess, bearing a representation of a bishop's miter; -- formerly called archer.
(n.) A beverage, being a mixture of wine, oranges or lemons, and sugar.
(n.) An old name for a woman's bustle.
(v. t.) To admit into the church by confirmation; to confirm; hence, to receive formally to favor.
(v. t.) To make seem younger, by operating on the teeth; as, to bishop an old horse or his teeth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The statutory age of retirement for clergy is 70, although vicars’ terms can be extended by his or her bishop.
(2) McDaniel supported his 2003 election as bishop of New Hampshire, which, caused conservative Episcopalians in the US to break away and was the subject of intense debate in the worldwide Anglican church.
(3) The nucleotide and amino acid sequences of the M RNA of Bunyamwera virus (prototype of the serogroup) and snowshow hare and La Crosse viruses (California serogroup) (Lees et al., 1986; Eshita and Bishop, 1984; Grady et al., 1987) were compared to those of Germiston virus.
(4) The government's civil partnership bill to sanction same-sex unions was thrown into confusion last night after a cross-party coalition of peers and bishops voted to extend the bill's benefits to a wide range of people who live together in a caring family relationship.
(5) The Rt Rev Stephen Lowe, the Bishop of Hulme, who speaks for the Anglican church on urban life and faith, is less sanguine.
(6) It is a relatively junior role, which will make her an assistant bishop in the diocese of Chester.
(7) That is the problem with those who refuse to accept women’s ministry as priests and bishops.
(8) These conserved sequences are identical to those previously reported for BTV types 10 and 11 (A. Kiuchi, C. D. Rao, and P. Roy (1983), "Double-Stranded RNA Viruses" (R. W. Compans and D. H. L. Bishop, eds.
(9) Macfarlane said he did not leak the contents of last week’s cabinet meeting - but he appeared to vouch for the veracity of the reported divisions when he added: “There has certainly been some very accurate statements made in newspapers in relation to the discussions that were had in cabinet.” The foreign affairs minister, Julie Bishop, said the leak “absolutely did not come from me” and although it was not the first cabinet in Australian history to have had leaks “this was particularly disappointing because it went into such detail”.
(10) The Rev Tim Stephens, the Bishop of Leicester, said it was "most troubling that the government and opposition have together in their proceeding with this measure led to division, not only within the country where polls consistently show half the population against this change, but also between the political class and the vast majority of practicing religious people".
(11) This is consistent with and confirms our previous finding [Weber, A., Northrop, J., Bishop, M. F., Ferrone, F. A., & Mooseker, M. S. (1987) Biochemistry (preceding paper in the issue)] that at an actin-villin ratio of 3 a significant fraction of the villin is free and that a series of steady states exist between villin-actin complexes of increasing size and G-actin.
(12) Or the checked shirt of the “hipster Labor lawyer”, as the foreign minister, Julie Bishop, described him.
(13) He is an Anglican bishop who has shown his moral strength to the world better than anybody.
(14) The study aimed at examining the effectiveness of labor induction in term pregnant nulliparas with the premature rupture of the membranes (PRM) and unriped cervix (Bishop less than 6).
(15) • The Catholic church's near monopoly of influence in education means that the ultimate power in each school is the local Catholic bishop.
(16) The Irish people, once so willing to heed to the clergy, decisively determined that Catholic bishops possess little credibility these days when it comes to knowing what’s in the best interests of children.
(17) The likes of almond, blackberry and crocus first made way for analogue, block graph and celebrity in the Oxford Junior Dictionary in 2007, with protests at the time around the loss of a host of religious words such as bishop, saint and sin.
(18) I’m standing strongly behind Bronwyn Bishop as the Speaker and I would call on all my colleagues whether they’re in the cabinet or on the backbench to stand firm against the demands by the Labor party to remove the Speaker,” Pyne said.
(19) I don't believe they are serious about opening the door to someone in a civil partnership becoming a bishop.
(20) And while one may think that the bishops of the Church of England don’t quite have the sex appeal of Russell Brand, we think that we should counter it.” While the bishops stress that their letter is not intended as “a shopping list of policies we would like to see”, they do advocate a number of specific steps, including a re-examination of the need for Trident, a retention of the commitment to funding overseas aid and a reassessment of areas where regulations fuel “the common perception of ‘health and safety gone mad’”.
Episcopal
Definition:
(a.) Governed by bishops; as, an episcopal church.
(a.) Belonging to, or vested in, bishops; as, episcopal jurisdiction or authority; the episcopal system.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Police investigators are seen outside the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Rev Clementa Pinckney speaks at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church in 2012.
(3) After repeated exeresis, the planimetric quantification of the wounds, by episcopic projection, shows that the healing process involves an immediate phase of dilatation followed by another of contraction.
(4) Scottish churches are pushing forward on gay rights, with the Church of Scotland to decide on Saturday whether to allow its ministers to be in same-sex marriages and the Scottish Episcopal Church likely to take a significant step next month towards permitting gay weddings in its churches.
(5) Using NEP-expressing MDCK cells and episcopic fluorescence microscopy, a specific labeling was obtained with 100 nM FTI which was completely displaced by 10 microM HACBOGly, a specific and potent inhibitor of NEP.
(6) This presentation outlines the recommended rehabilitation procedure used for such patients referred to the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Service of St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital.
(7) The fact is that the vast majority of our petitioning parishes are in the Cleveland archdeaconry and so the see of Whitby is the obvious choice for such episcopal provision where the diocesan bishop is an outspoken advocate of women's ministry."
(8) The Episcopal Conference says that Beatriz is being used by pro-choice campaigners to weaken the country's prohibition.
(9) A Police Scotland spokesman said last week : “We can confirm we are investigating reports of offensive comments made towards St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral in Glasgow and inquiries are ongoing.
(10) The Church of England would do well to learn from this debate and process, and reflect on how it is possible to move forward – together – in a way that makes room for the views of all.” A C of E spokesperson said: “The Church of England is currently engaged in a series of shared conversations on human sexuality … It would not be appropriate to comment further at this stage.” Friday’s vote was carried overwhelmingly in all three houses of the Scottish Episcopal church.
(11) ‘I’m not so much with her as I am against the fascist Donald Trump’ Chris, 50, New York, voting for Hillary Clinton My name is Christopher; I am a gay African American illustrator and comic book artist living in New York City with my husband who is an Episcopal seminarian.
(12) Nevertheless, the Anglican summit restated its traditional stance and imposed sanctions on the liberal US Episcopal church for allowing same-sex marriage.
(13) I was pleasantly surprised by Governor Hutchinson’s statement yesterday,” said Brooks Cato, a priest at Christ Episcopal Church in Little Rock.
(14) Six-year-old Benjamin Wheeler, whose parents worshipped at Trinity Episcopal, was among the dead.
(15) Kaoma is an Anglican priest from Zambia now living and working in the US with the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts due to threats against his life.
(16) Last year, Anglicans in North America broke away from the US Episcopal Church and asked for the archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams , to recognise the new entity.
(17) In an internal memo the secretary general of the synod, William Fittall, urged the church to pursue an "urgent and radical" new strategy in order to see women in the episcopate by 2015.
(18) Jackson was born in Greenville, South Carolina, in 1941, a state where he has spent a lot of time lately – both to see his elderly mother, and to visit Charleston after nine black people were slaughtered at Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal church .
(19) Members of Gafcon, a group of conservative Anglicans deeply opposed to same-sex marriage and gay rights, have been agitating for sanctions to be imposed on the US Episcopal church for 12 years, since the consecration of a gay priest, Gene Robinson, as bishop of New Hampshire.
(20) The Episcopal church has also come under pressure to withdraw its fossil fuel holdings.