💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Flying bishop"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| missionary bishopnoun | (Christianity) A bishop assigned in the Anglican Communion (and, until 1964, in Methodist churches) to an area that is not already organized under a bishop of a church. |
| good bishopnoun | (chess) A bishop that has high mobility. |
| boy bishopnoun | (historical) In many mediaeval English cathedrals and other collegiate institutions, a boy elected to act or parody the role of a bishop for a part of the Christmas period (traditionally from St Nicholas' Day to Innocents' Day). |
| bishopnoun | (Christianity) An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory. |
| even-bishopnoun | A co-bishop; a coadjutor bishop. |
| abbot-bishopnoun | An abbot who is also a bishop. |
| prince bishopnoun | A bishop who also holds a secular princely rank, regardless whether its territory concurs wholly or partially with his diocese. |
| prince-bishopnoun | Alternative spelling of prince bishop. [A bishop who also holds a secular princely rank, regardless whether its territory concurs wholly or partially with his diocese.] |
| my lord bishopnoun | (UK, Christianity) Used in direct address to 24 bishops of the Church of England comprising the Lords Spiritual, apart from the archbishops of Canterbury and York. |
| byshopnoun | Obsolete spelling of bishop. [(Christianity) An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory.] |
| cobishopnoun | A joint or coadjutant bishop. |
| auxiliary bishopnoun | A bishop who functions as another bishop's deputy, where the weight of sacramental duties is too much for a single bishop. |
| diocesannoun | An inhabitant of a diocese. |
| suffragannoun | An auxiliary bishop. |
| cardinal bishopnoun | (more loosely) A cardinal who is a bishop anywhere. |
| bishopshipnoun | Synonym of bishopric (“the state, condition, or office of a bishop”). |
| bishoprynoun | Synonym of bishopric (“the state, condition, or office of a bishop”). |
| angelnoun | An incorporeal and holy or semidivine messenger from a deity or other divine entity, traditionally depicted as a youthful, winged figure in flowing robes. |
| missionary rectornoun | (Christianity) A Roman Catholic priest appointed to the charge of some important mission in England. |
| bishopricnoun | A diocese: a region in which a bishop of a church governs. |
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