Meaning of BISHOP in Punjabi

Use in sentences of ਬਿਸ਼ਪ

Meaning of BISHOP in English

• A spiritual overseer, superintendent, or director.
• In the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Anglican or Protestant Episcopal churches, one ordained to the highest order of the ministry, superior to the priesthood, and generally claiming to be a successor of the Apostles. The bishop is usually the spiritual head or ruler of a diocese, bishopric, or see.
• In the Methodist Episcopal and some other churches, one of the highest church officers or superintendents.
• A piece used in the game of chess, bearing a representation of a bishop's miter; -- formerly called archer.
• A beverage, being a mixture of wine, oranges or lemons, and sugar.
• An old name for a woman's bustle.
• To admit into the church by confirmation; to confirm; hence, to receive formally to favor.
• To make seem younger, by operating on the teeth; as, to bishop an old horse or his teeth.

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