Bishoprics is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BISHOPRICS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• BISHOPRIC, the diocese or jurisdiction of a bishop; the rank or office of a bishop
• the office or rank of a bishop.
• a district under a bishop's control; a diocese.

Words related to BISHOPRICS

bishopric18

Words that contain BISHOPRICS

archbishoprics28

How to use BISHOPRICS in a sentence

• It was not only from the lands of the Crown and the manors of earls that bishoprics and monasteries derived their large endowments.
• As for the bishoprics of Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Milan, they were great governments, and required men of great executive ability to rule them.
• Bishoprics, once conferred for wisdom and piety, had become prizes for the rapacious and ambitious.
• Bishoprics and livings were sold, and given to political favorites.
• A part of Bavaria and Swabia, the Bishoprics of Franconia, the Lower Palatinate, and the Archbishopric of Mentz, lay conquered in his rear.
• The Bulgarians grew bold after securing so many bishoprics in the nineties and the bishop at Uskub thought to open new schools and churches.
• In 1074 the decree that all bishoprics should be in fortified places caused the removal of the See of Dorchester to Lincoln.
• Questions relative to bishops, bishoprics, and the regular orders are intrusted to four congregations, under different and appropriate names.
• In return for this Edward yielded up his illusory rights over the three bishoprics of Limoges, Perigueux, and Cahors.
• A law was therefore passed declaring it mortal sin for Jesuits to accept bishoprics or other posts of honor in the Church.
• The meanest and poorest bishoprics were refused to Sarpi.
• The Red King preferred to leave bishoprics and churches empty so that he might annex the profits.
• When bishoprics and benefices in the gift of the crown became vacant, the king ordered the profits to be lodged in the exchequer, and suffered the cures to be totally neglected.
• She accordingly bestowed the bishoprics of Chester and Exeter upon sir William Dawes and Dr.
• Day, bishop of Chichester, Heathe of Worcester, and Voisey of Exeter, were deprived of their bishoprics, on pretence of disobedience.
• Ten bishoprics were to be abolished, and the vacated sees were to be annexed to those preserved.
• One half of the Irish bishoprics were thereby abrogated, Parliament assuming ecclesiastical authority.
• It might be best to connect the links of the East Anglian bishoprics here, although in the notes on the diocese the matter is gone into at more length.
• The archbishop has now authority over nine bishoprics.
• She therefore endowed three colonial bishoprics, at Adelaide, Cape Town, and in British Columbia, with a quarter of a million dollars.
• Bishoprics, value of, manner of filling Irish, necessity for increasing their revenues.
• Their square, flat city they called Christchurch, and its rectangular streets by the names of the Anglican Bishoprics.
• Of the division and distribution of bishoprics and provinces in the Filipinas.
• Gladstone, all the more prominent men in the bishoprics, and in high commercial, financial and religious position.
• I believe it is beyond doubt that he is taking letters very favorable to himself, and he is so kind a man that he promises bishoprics.
• An alteration had thus become necessary in the manner of presentation to vacant bishoprics.

Similar words containing BISHOPRIC without suffix s

bishopric18 archbishopric27 archbishoprics28

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