BISHOPRIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bishopric mean? 

• BISHOPRIC (noun)
  The noun BISHOPRIC has 1 sense:

1. the territorial jurisdiction of a bishop

  Familiarity information: BISHOPRIC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BISHOPRIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The territorial jurisdiction of a bishop

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

bishopric; diocese; episcopate

Hypernyms ("bishopric" is a kind of...):

jurisdiction (in law; the territory within which power can be exercised)

Meronyms (parts of "bishopric"):

see (the seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located)

parish (the local subdivision of a diocese committed to one pastor)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bishopric"):

archdiocese (the diocese of an archbishop)

eparchy; exarchate (a diocese of the Eastern Orthodox Church)

 Context examples 

Later Icelandic accounts suggest that in the 1120s, Greenlanders used walrus ivory to secure the right to their own bishopric from the king of Norway.

(Lost Norse of Greenland fuelled the medieval ivory trade, ancient walrus DNA suggests, University of Cambridge)