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Bishop
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Originally an overseer of souls, eventually an overseer of churches, especially of a district, and conceived of by High-Churchmen as representing the apostles and deriving his powers by transmission from them.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Bishop'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​b/bishop.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Bishop'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​b/bishop.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.