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Meaning of बिशप in English

  • A spiritual overseer, superintendent, or director.
  • 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.
  • In the Methodist Episcopal and some other churches, one of the highest church officers or superintendents.
  • A piece used in the game of chess, bearing a representation of a bishop's miter; -- formerly called archer.
  • A beverage, being a mixture of wine, oranges or lemons, and sugar.
  • An old name for a woman's bustle.
  • To admit into the church by confirmation; to confirm; hence, to receive formally to favor.
  • To make seem younger, by operating on the teeth; as, to bishop an old horse or his teeth.
  • Of or pertaining to a diocese; as, diocesan missions.
  • A bishop, viewed in relation to his diocese; as, the diocesan of New York.
  • The clergy or the people of a diocese.
  • A high priest.
  • One of the sacred college, in ancient Rome, which had the supreme jurisdiction over all matters of religion, at the head of which was the Pontifex Maximus.
  • The chief priest.
  • The pope.
  • of Bishop
  • To deprive, as a city, of a bishop; to deprive, as a clergyman, of episcopal dignity or rights.

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