Phrase Hound found 22 phrases and 10 compound words that contain bishops. The most common are listed below. Open bishops in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 22
- Bishops BridgeA suburb of Newcastle in the Cessnock council area and the Maitland council area, New South Wales, Australia.
- Bishops' BibleAn English edition of the Bible produced under the authority of the established Church of England in 1568. It was substantially revised in 1572, and the 1602 edition was prescribed as the base text for the King James Version that was …
- Wickham BishopsA village in Maldon district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL8412).
- Bishops CanningsA village and civil parish north-east of Devizes, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU0364).
- Bishops LydeardA village and civil parish (served by Bishops Lydeard and Cothelstone Parish Council) in Somerset, England, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district (OS grid ref ST1629).
- auxiliary bishopsplural of auxiliary bishop: A bishop who functions as another bishop's deputy, where the weight of sacramental duties is too much for a single bishop.
- boy bishopsplural of boy bishop
- flying bishopsplural of flying bishop: 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.
- metropolitan bishopsplural of metropolitan bishop: A bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop.
- prince bishopsplural of prince bishop: A bishop who also holds a secular princely rank, regardless whether its territory concurs wholly or partially with his diocese.
- bishops of Romeplural of bishop of Rome: The pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
- titular bishopsplural of titular bishop: A Roman Catholic bishop without a diocese, taking his title from a place where there is no longer a bishop's see.
- bad bishopsplural of bad bishop: A bishop that is blocked by the player's own pawns.
- cardinal bishopsplural of cardinal bishop: A cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who is bishop of one of the cardinal ("hinge") dioceses of the Province of Rome.
- even-bishopsplural of even-bishop: A co-bishop; a coadjutor bishop.
- good bishopsplural of good bishop: A bishop that has high mobility.
- missionary bishopsplural of missionary bishop: 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.
- abbot-bishopsplural of abbot-bishop: An abbot who is also a bishop.
- my Lord Bishopsplural of my Lord Bishop: Used in direct address to 24 bishops of the Church of England comprising the Lords Spiritual, apart from the archbishops of Canterbury and York.
- Stinking Bishopsplural of Stinking Bishop: A pear of a variety bred near Dymock in Gloucestershire, England, primarily for perry.
- yellow-crowned bishopsplural of yellow-crowned bishop: The bird, Euplectes afer, native to sub-Saharan Africa.
- coadjutor bishopsplural of coadjutor bishop: An auxiliary bishop with the right of succession, i.e., he becomes bishop upon the death, removal or retirement of the incumbent bishop.
Compound words 10
- archbishopsplural of archbishop: A senior bishop who is in charge of an archdiocese, and presides over a group of dioceses called a province (in Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Anglicanism, etc.)
- BishopstoneA place in England:
- BishopstonAn inner-city suburb of Bristol, England (OS grid ref ST5875).
- BishopstownA suburb of Cork, County Cork, Ireland, south-west of the city centre (Irish grid ref W 6370).
- antibishopsplural of antibishop: A pretender to the episcopal office, such as a bishop appointed by an antipope.
- BishopsbourneA locality in Northern Midlands council area, eastern Tasmania, Australia.
- bishopshipsplural of bishopship: Synonym of bishopric (“the state, condition, or office of a bishop”).
- BishopstokeA village and civil parish in Eastleigh borough, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU4619).
- BishopsworthA district in southern Bristol, England, formerly a village within Bedminster
- highbishopsplural of highbishop: Archbishop.