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bish·op
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suffragan
assisting or auxiliary to, as applied to any bishop in relation to the archbishop or metropolitan who is his superior, or as applied to an assistant or subsidiary bishop who performs episcopal functions in a diocese but has no ordinary jurisdiction, as, in the Church of England, a bishop consecrated to assist the ordinary bishop of a see in part of his diocese. -
episcopate
The office or term of office of a bishop. -
pope
died 1690? Pueblo medicine man: led rebellion against the Spanish 1680. -
coadjutor
a bishop appointed as assistant to a diocesan bishop -
lawn sleeves
(used with a plural verb) the sleeves of lawn forming part of the dress of an Anglican bishop. -
archbishop
In the Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican Churches, an archbishop is a bishop of the highest rank, who is in charge of all the bishops and priests in a particular country or region.