How do you use the word "bishop" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "bishop" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "bishop": The bishop felt pity for the immigrants who were abandoned, and gave them help. The bishop took pity on the desperate immigrants.

Bishop Meaning

/ˈbɪʃəp/

Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounAn overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory.

Sentence Examples

The bishop felt pity for the immigrants who were abandoned, and gave them help.

The bishop took pity on the desperate immigrants.

CEFR Practice Quiz

The cathedral welcomed a new ____ who would oversee the entire diocese.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The ____ is a high-ranking member of the church in the local region.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English bischop, bishop, bisshop, biscop, from Old English bisċop (“bishop”), from Proto-West Germanic *biskop, from Vulgar Latin (e)biscopus, from classical Latin episcopus (“overseer, supervisor”), from Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, “overseer”), from ἐπί (epí, “over”) + σκοπός (skopós, “watcher”), used in Greek and Latin both generally and as a title of civil officers. Cognate with all European terms for the position in various Christian churches; compare also Middle English bisp (“bishop”). * The Tyndale Bible uses native English overseer instead.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"King James of blessed memory said, no Bishop, no King: it was not he, but others that added, No Ceremony, no Bishop." — 1641, “Smectymnuus”, in Vindic. Answer Hvmble Remonstr., §16. 208:

"St. Ignatius... In his 'Epiſtle to the Magneſians,' he exhorts them to do all things in the love of God, telling them, the Biſhop preſides in the place of God..." — 1715, William Hendley, A Defence of the Church of England, section 16:

"These ministers were at first confined to the three orders of bishops, priests, and deacons." — 1845, J. Lingard, Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church, 3rd edition, I. iv. 146:

"It is a fact now generally recognized by theologians of all shades of opinion, that in the language of the New Testament the same officer in the Church is called indifferently ‘bishop’ ἐπίσκοπος and ‘elder’ or ‘presbyter’ πρεσβύτερος." — 1868, Joseph Barber Lightfoot, St. Paul's epistle to the Philippians, section 93:

"The Jubilee Mass had a special solemnity due to the presence of two exiled Chinese bishops—Thomas Cardinal Tien, Archbishop of Peking, and Bishop Joseph Yuen, of Chu-ma-tien, Honan—as well as the recently named bishop of Taichung, Formosa, Most Rev. William Kupfer, MM, who was in the United States to attend the Maryknoll General Chapter." — 2013, Maureen Abbott, New Lights from Old Truths: Living the Signs of the Times, volume IV, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 375:

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