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From Middle English bischopriche, from Old English bisċoprīċe, equivalent to bishop + -ric (compare German Reich).
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈbɪʃəpɹɪk/
bishopric (plural bishoprics)
- A diocese or region of a church which a bishop governs.
- Synonym: diocese
Later that year, he was appointed to the bishopric of Lindesmeere.
1605, M. N. [pseudonym; William Camden], “Grave Speeches, and Wittie Apothegms of Woorthie Personages of This Realme in Former Times”, in Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, […], London: […] G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson, →OCLC, page 220:
Iohn Fiſher Biſhop of Rocheſter, when the King [Henry VII of England] would have tranſlated him from that poore Biſhopricke to a better, he refuſed, saying: He would not forſake his poore little olde wife, with whom he had ſo long lived.
2023 June 28, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: Alton to Exeter”, in RAIL, number 986, page 59:
Wiltshire actually comes from Wiltonshire, for Wilton was once a county town, royal residence and bishopric - a place of significance.
- The office or function of a bishop.
diocese
- Catalan: bisbat (ca) m
- Coptic: ⲉⲡⲓⲥⲕⲟⲡⲏ (episkopē)
- Czech: biskupství (cs) n
- Danish: bispedømme (da) c, stift n, bispesæde n
- Dutch: bisdom (nl) n, diocees (nl) n, diocese (nl) f
- Finnish: hiippakunta (fi)
- French: évêché (fr) m
- German: Bistum (de) n, Diözese (de) f
- Greenlandic: biskoppeqarfik
- Hungarian: püspökség (hu)
- Icelandic: biskupsdæmi n
- Ido: episkopio (io)
- Indonesian: keuskupan (id)
- Italian: vescovato m
- Latin: dioecēsis f
- Latvian: bīskapija f
- Macedonian: епархија f (eparhija), бискупија f (biskupija)
- Malay: keuskupan, biskoprik
- Maori: pīhopatanga
- Middle English: byschopryke
- Polish: diecezja (pl) f, biskupstwo (pl) n
- Portuguese: episcopado (pt) m, bispado (pt) m
- Romanian: episcopie (ro) f
- Russian: епа́рхия (ru) f (jepárxija)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: биску̀пија f
- Roman: biskùpija (sh) f
- Skolt Sami: aa´rhelkå´dd
- Slovene: škofija (sl) f
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: biskupstwo n
- Spanish: obispado (es) m
- Swedish: biskopsdöme (sv) n, biskopdöme n
- Tagalog: obispado, diyosesis (tl)
- Turkish: piskoposluk (tr)
function of being bishop
- Czech: biskupství (cs) n
- Dutch: episcopaat (nl) n
- French: épiscopat (fr) m
- Hungarian: püspökség (hu)
- Latin: episcopātus m
- Low German:
- German Low German: Bisdom n
- Macedonian: епископство n (episkopstvo), бискупство n (biskupstvo)
- Maori: pīhopatanga
- Middle English: bischopriche
- Polish: biskupstwo (pl) n
- Portuguese: episcopado (pt) m, bispado (pt) m
- Romanian: episcopat (ro)
- Swedish: biskopat n
- Tagalog: obispado