bishop

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Recent Examples of bishop David tells a friend, as Steward explains the moves of the bishop, knight and queen on the chess board. Ashley Milne-Tyte, NPR, 26 Mar. 2025 Dating to the late 12th or early 13th century, the jewelry likely belonged to a medieval bishop. Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025 According to its lawyers, the president of Catholic Charities in Superior, Wisconsin, is a Catholic bishop, who also appoints its board of directors. Ian Millhiser, Vox, 24 Mar. 2025 Some clutched rosaries, others took selfies or touched the protective glass in front of the seemingly sleeping young man, who died of leukemia at 15 in 2006 and is generating a devotion that astonishes even Assisi’s bishop. Time, 27 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bishop
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bishop
Noun
  • The item resembles similar pieces belonging to other medieval religious leaders, such as a large sapphire, ruby and emerald ring owned by the 13th-century archbishop Walter de Gray.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
  • No money or holy items exchanged hands between the Satanists and the archbishop, according to attorneys who represented Stewart.
    Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • This is the pope's latest public appearance during Holy Week.
    Phoebe Natanson, ABC News, 19 Apr. 2025
  • The Vatican has said the pope’s condition is slowly improving.
    Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • As the village abbot never far from the woods, or from Martine’s little dining room table, Jacques Develay manages the trick of utter simplicity in his motives and line readings.
    Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
  • When Kaldi shared the berries with an abbot of a local monastery, the monk ended up wide awake during the evening prayers.
    Marta Zaraska, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The diocesan website includes a statement from Dallas Bishop Edward Burns connecting the need for social distancing with the story of the Good Samaritan.
    David Tarrant, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2020
  • In the Catholic Church, this is generally a time of the year when dioceses ask their members to donate to annual bishops’ Lenten appeals, which fund diocesan operations.
    Nicholas Rowan, Washington Examiner, 22 Mar. 2020
Noun
  • Seidel and the university’s board of trustees, which met just before Wright was terminated as dean, have denied that his demotion was in retaliation for his refusing to transfer the funds.
    Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • But it was trashed by H. L. Mencken, editor of the Baltimore Sun and dean of America‘s literary critics.
    Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • This would be the case also for an apostate, heretic, schismatic bishop, presbyter, or deacon.
    Fr. Goran Jovicic, National Review, 13 June 2021
  • The Rev. Allen D. Timm, executive presbyter of the Presbytery Church in Detroit, said the church is waiting to hear from the general assembly as to when volunteers will be dispatched to Houston.
    Allie Gross, Detroit Free Press, 29 Aug. 2017
Noun
  • The prelate suggested that any rush toward legalizing civil divorce could undermine Filipino families – the foundational aspect of society, according to the country’s constitution.
    Mark Saludes, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The life of the court and contemplative life were two models in which the leisure of the lord, the prelate, and the warrior could function.
    Walter Benjamin, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The highlight is an interactive Easter story led by Village Church’s senior pastor, the Rev. Jack Baca.
    Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Its pastor rejoiced Have the flu or know someone with it?
    Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025

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“Bishop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bishop. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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