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her jurisdiction; granting leave to depart. Letters dimissory (Eccl.), letters given by a bishop dismissing a person who is removing into another diocese, and recommending him for reception there. Hook.

A bishop, viewed in relation to his diocese; as, the diocesan of New York.

The circuit or extent of a bishop's jurisdiction; the district in which a bishop exercises his ecclesiastical authority. [Frequently, but improperly, spelt diocess.]

ome time the strata on all sides of the globe were dislocated. Woodward. And thus the archbishop's see, dislocated or out of joint for a time, was by the hands of his holiness set right again. Fuller.

ilest and most worthless part of anything; as, the dregs of society. We, the dregs and rubbish of mankind. Dryden.

ighest order of nobility after princes and princesses of the royal blood and the four archbishops of England and Ireland.

mplaint in the nature of an appeal from the ordinary to his immediate superior, as from a bishop to an archbishop. Mozley & W. -- Duplex telegraphy, a system of telegraphy for sending two messages over the same wire simultaneously. -- Duplex watch, one with a duplex escapement.

ordination and to keep their wives afterward, but not to marry a second time, selects its bishops from the monastic clergy only, recognizes the offices of bishop, priest, and deacon as the three necessary degrees of orders, venerates relics and icons, and has an elaborate ritual.

t which concerns the whole church; as, an ecumenical council. [Written also .] Ecumenical Bishop, a title assumed by the popes. -- Ecumenical council. See under Council.

acraments; as, a traveling elder. Presiding elder (Meth. Ch.), an elder commissioned by a bishop to have the oversight of the churches and preachers in a certain district. -- Ruling elder, a lay presbyter or member of a Presbyterian church session. Schaff.

Chosen to an office, but not yet actually inducted into it; as, bishop elect; governor or mayor elect.

for a whole order of men; general; circular; as, an encyclical letter of a council, of a bishop, or the pope.

To induct, as a bishop, into the powers and privileges of a vacant see.

The act of enthroning; hence, the admission of a bishop to his stall or throne in his cathedral.

To place on a throne; hence, to induct into office, as a bishop. There openly enthronized as the very elected king. Knolles.

Government of the church by bishops; church government by three distinct orders of ministers -- bishops, priests, and deacons -- of whom the bishops have an authority superior and of a different kind.

Governed by bishops; as, an episcopal church.

Pertaining to bishops, or government by bishops; episcopal; specifically, of or relating to the Protestant Episcopal Church.

A bishop. [Obs.] Milton.

A bishopric; the office and dignity of a bishop.