💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Good bishop"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| minor piecenoun | (chess) A bishop or a knight. |
| archernoun | One who shoots an arrow from a bow or a bolt from a crossbow. |
| cobishopnoun | A joint or coadjutant bishop. |
| flying bishopnoun | (informal) An itinerant bishop of the Church of England appointed to administer within another's diocese to those who refuse to accept the ordination of women. |
| abbot-bishopnoun | An abbot who is also a bishop. |
| even-bishopnoun | A co-bishop; a coadjutor bishop. |
| 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). |
| cardinal bishopnoun | (more loosely) A cardinal who is a bishop anywhere. |
| alfinnoun | (chess, historical) A bishop. |
| prince bishopnoun | A bishop who also holds a secular princely rank, regardless whether its territory concurs wholly or partially with his diocese. |
| auxiliary bishopnoun | A bishop who functions as another bishop's deputy, where the weight of sacramental duties is too much for a single bishop. |
| 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.] |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| diocesannoun | An inhabitant of a diocese. |
| 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.] |
| metropolitan bishopnoun | (Orthodox Christianity) A bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop. |
| suffragannoun | An auxiliary bishop. |
| metropolitannoun | The inhabitant of a metropolis. |
| prelatenoun | A clergyman of high rank and authority, having jurisdiction over an area or a group of people; normally a bishop. |
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