Bishopric Synonyms

bĭshə-prĭk
The territorial jurisdiction of a bishop
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. diocese
  2. episcopate
  3. episcopacy
  4. see
  5. archbishopric
  6. prelacy
  7. primacy
  8. prelature
  9. prelateship
  10. archiepiscopacy
  11. pontificate
  12. bishopdom

Words Related to Bishopric

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. prebend
  2. canonry
  3. earldom
  4. bishoprick
  5. cathedral-church
  6. prebendary
  7. dukedom
  8. commandery
  9. fief
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Bishopric Sentence Examples

  • He was now firmly established in the favour of the king, who gave him successively the abbacy of St Severin, in the diocese of Poitiers, the office of almoner to the dauphiness, and in 1685 the bishopric of Lavaur, from which he was in 1687 promoted to that of Nimes.

  • Chicheley had been careful enough to obtain " Papal provisions " for himself, his pluralities, his bishopric and archbishopric.

  • On the capture of that city by the Goths in 474 he was imprisoned, as he had taken an active part in its defence; but he was afterwards restored by Euric, king of the Goths, and continued to govern his bishopric as before.

  • Leo sent a new nuncio to Copenhagen (1521) in the person of the Minorite Francesco de Potentia, who readily absolved the king and received the rich bishopric of Skara.

  • Another bull the same day gave him the right to hold all his benefices with the bishopric.

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