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A diocese; the district over which the jurisdiction of a bishop extends.

The jurisdiction or office of an archbishop; the see or province over which archbishop exercises archiepiscopal authority.

The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop.

The office of an archbishop; an archbishopric.

To nominate to a bishopric, in order to consecration. Ayliffe.

uccessor of the Apostles. The bishop is usually the spiritual head or ruler of a diocese, bishopric, or see. Bishop in partibus [infidelium] (R. C. Ch.), a bishop of a see which does not actually exist; one who has the office of bishop, without especial jurisdiction. Shipley. -- Titular bishop (R. C. Ch.), a term offi…

A city is a town incorporated; which is, or has been, the see of a bishop; and though the bishopric has been dissolved, as at Westminster, it yet remaineth a city. Blackstone When Gorges constituted York a city, he of course meant it to be the seat of a bishop, for the word city has no other meaning in English law. Pal…

of composition. Shak. Rare compound of oddity, frolic, and fun. Goldsmith. When the word "bishopric" was first made, it was made as a compound. Earle.

away; to dissolve; to consume; to waste. [Obs.] Dilapidating, or rather deliquating, his bishopric. Fuller.

To impair by waste and abuse; to squander. The patrimony of the bishopric of Oxon was much dilapidated. Wood.

A bishopric; the office and dignity of a bishop.

A bishop, who, during a vacancy of the see, administers the bishopric till a successor is installed.

A suffix signifying dominion, jurisdiction; as, bishopric, the district over which a bishop exercises authority.

her. "Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, when the king would have translated him from that poor bishopric to a better, . . . refused." Camden.