Bishop, originally an overseer of souls, eventually an overseer of churches, especially of a district, and conceived of by High-Churchmen as representing the apostles and deriving his powers by transmission from them.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Bischoff, Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm * Bishop, Sir Henry RowleyBishop in Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable
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