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Recent Examples of bishop
For example, the Life of Saint Æthelwold is a tenth-century biography that narrates the holy life of an English bishop.
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Literary Hub,
25 June 2026
Usually, this includes records of bishops and clergy and important moments in the church community.
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Lillian Ashworth,
Oc Register,
18 June 2026
An artist and performer, Skrepetsky gained notice with his cutting portraits of Russian president Vladimir Putin, Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, and a conservative Moscow bishop, Patriarch Kirill.
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Brian Boucher,
ARTnews.com,
17 June 2026
The journalists travelling with the pope sit at the back of the plane, while the pope, cardinals, bishops and Vatican staff sit at the front.
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Christopher Lamb,
CNN Money,
13 June 2026
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Literary Hub,
25 June 2026
Usually, this includes records of bishops and clergy and important moments in the church community.
—
Lillian Ashworth,
Oc Register,
18 June 2026
An artist and performer, Skrepetsky gained notice with his cutting portraits of Russian president Vladimir Putin, Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, and a conservative Moscow bishop, Patriarch Kirill.
—
Brian Boucher,
ARTnews.com,
17 June 2026
The journalists travelling with the pope sit at the back of the plane, while the pope, cardinals, bishops and Vatican staff sit at the front.
—
Christopher Lamb,
CNN Money,
13 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bishop
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William Warham, the archbishop of Canterbury, called for more copies to be bought up and burned.
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The diocese's parishes, schools, and other entities are not included in the filing and their operation should not be affected, the archbishop said.
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The American pope has prioritized church unity and healing tensions with traditionalists that worsened during the Pope Francis pontificate.
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In Catholic teaching, the link, or communion, between bishops and the pope is a cornerstone of the church’s unity.
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The court found that Shi used his positions, including as the temple abbot, to illegally embezzle more than $19 million alone or in conspiracy with others, between 2003 and 2025, CCTV reported.
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According to a relative of Nathan who provided some of the sources Amit studied, the abbot reportedly also wrote letters to the Vatican and to monasteries in Switzerland pleading for a safe exit for Wolfgang.
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The first is the strikingly Gothic diocesan throne, which sits in the cathedral choir and dates from the Victorian era.
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Local Catholics attended Mass at the Cathedral of the Incarnation midday April 21 that Rev. John Hammond presided over, and Spalding will be the celebrant at an official diocesan Mass.
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Cultural exchanges like these counter distorted media narratives, says Mimi Sheller, dean of the Global School at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, who studies the movement of people around the world.
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As Verity Shaye, assistant dean for education at NYU, explained to me, medical educators have long struggled to assess communication and reasoning skills directly.
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The group was founded in 1970 in Switzerland by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, a French prelate, but five years later was officially suppressed by the Bishop of Fribourg.
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In roughly 33 hours over the course of two days, the diverse group of international prelates elected Prevost on the fourth ballot.
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That was the end of things until last October, when the Washington County Attorney’s Office in Utah received a tip from Barry Diamond — senior pastor of Legacy Christian Church, where Vander Meer had worked as a youth pastor — that Bernadette may have been pushed to her death.
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Chadwick was a former pastor of Forest Hill.
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Nearly every murder is solved by the end of the episode, but despite the unusual twist of having the village vicar team up with the police, the real action comes from the relationships among the characters.
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The sacred meets the secular in this long-running pairing of a young vicar with a worldly police detective in the titular idyllic Cambridgeshire village during the 1950s and ‘60s.
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“Bishop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bishop. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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