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A bishop is an orained member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. The office of bishop is one of the three ordained offices within Christianity, the other two being those of priest and deacon. Within the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Assyrian Church of the East and Anglican churches, bishops claim Apostolic Succession, a direct historical lineage dating back to the original Twelve Apostles. Within these churches, bishops can ordain clergy including other bishops. Some Protestant churches including the Lutheran and Methodist churches have bishops as well, although their duties are usually only oversight as Protestants generally reject the sacramental theology of Catholicism. The non-Protestant Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints church also has bishops, who serve as spiritual leaders of local congregations (wards). Bishops are of a higher rank than priests.

Trivia about bishop

  • ...of chess pieces
  • In 1989 Barbara Harris became the first woman in the history of the Episcopal Church to be made this
  • Title of any priest's immediate boss; the U.S. has 270 of them
  • Like the knight, this chess piece is worth about 3 pawns
  • A church is called a “cathedral” when this official's chair, a “cathedra” in Latin, is there
  • In Norway's state church only one of these men survived the Black Death; maybe he moved diagonally away
  • The piece that shares its name with a job in the Catholic church
  • Greek for "overseer" gives us this chess piece big on 45-degree angles
  • In church, & on a chess board, it's from the Greek for "overseer"
  • 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu was this in Johannesburg
  • Thomas Coke & Francis Asbury, the 1st Methodist superintendents in America, soon took this other religious title

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