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# bishop

«bishop» in Mova's school dictionary: **a senior leader in many Christian churches who looks…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a bishop, bishops)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (church) A bishop is a senior leader in many Christian churches who looks after the priests and churches of a large area called a diocese. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bishop/#m1)

2) (chess) A bishop is a chess piece that moves any number of squares diagonally. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bishop/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In church life the bishop confirms young people, ordains priests, and wears a tall pointed hat called a mitre and carries a crook-shaped staff. Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican and some Lutheran and Methodist churches have bishops. In chess each player starts with two bishops, one on light squares and one on dark. Phrases: the Bishop of a city, the bishop's palace, move your bishop.

### examples

- The bishop came to our church for the confirmation service. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bishop/#x1)
- A bishop wears a tall hat called a mitre. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bishop/#x2)
- The Bishop of London spoke on the radio. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bishop/#x3)
- I moved my bishop diagonally and took her knight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bishop/#x4)
- A bishop always stays on the same colour of square. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bishop/#x5)
- The bishop blessed the new school building. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bishop/#x6)
- ‘She is my wife,’ answered the bishop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bishop/#x7)

### note

Countable. Capital B in a title ("Bishop Anne", "the Bishop of Durham"). Related words: diocese (his area), cathedral (his main church), archbishop (a chief bishop). In chess, bishops move only diagonally.

### In the corpora

- [Andorra has two co-princes, the Bishop of Urgell in Spain and the President of France.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/39-odd-places-microstates-enclaves-and-disputed-lands/9/)
- [In confirmation a person confirms for themselves the promises made at their baptism, often with a bishop laying hands on them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/24-baptism-communion-and-confirmation/19/)
- [Bishops are senior leaders who look after many churches in an area called a diocese.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/25-weddings-funerals-and-the-people-of-the-church/15/)
- [The Pope is the Bishop of Rome and leader of the Catholic Church worldwide.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/25-weddings-funerals-and-the-people-of-the-church/16/)
- [The Church of England is led by bishops, with the Archbishop of Canterbury as senior bishop and the King as Supreme Governor.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/28-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-i/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bishop» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bishop/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.