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Noun(1) the territorial jurisdiction of a bishop

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(1) Perhaps a rule could be made that would preclude immediate election to a bishopric from a curial position.(2) A key figure here was the unscrupulous careerist Henri Costerius, a protonotary apostolic eager for a bishopric , who as a Borghese client, had powerful friends in Rome.(3) Manning began the attack on Russell, calling on all the churches in his bishopric to rouse their parishioners in opposition.(4) A little later Palladius himself was appointed to a bishopric , and sent to Ireland to minister to - and possibly ransom - enslaved Christian Britons abducted by Irish raiders.(5) The Domenican prelate had reluctantly accepted the papal tiara in 1724, leaving with great regret his bishopric in Benevento.(6) In the Church of England as it currently is, Canon Robinson couldn't have been a candidate for the bishopric .(7) And, if a Bishop or two were removed or at least publicly chastised by Rome or something, it would put those in line for the bishopric on some kind of notice that taking moral stands is part of the job description.(8) By the end of October, he was sacked from his bishopric in Winchester and as Abbot of St Albans.(9) And it was in York that he established a bishopric (only later to be England's second archbishopric), probably because that had been the centre of the old Romano-British diocese.(10) Chester was one of the seats of the Mercian bishops, though the bishopric was variously styled as Chester, Coventry, or Coventry and Lichfield.(11) In 1550 the bishopric of Gloucester fell vacant and Hooper seemed an ideal candidate.(12) The Anglican Catholic Church now includes 15 dioceses in the Americas, the United Kingdom and Australia, plus a bishopric in New Zealand, and deaneries in Spain and South America.(13) Of course, Tyringham did receive a number of visits a year from the ministry of the Shaker bishopric to which it belonged.(14) So when he sought to move from his radical nest to try for the archbishopric of Melbourne, the Anglican establishment blocked him - and he was obliged to be content with a bishopric .(15) Though the modern bishopric was not carved out of the York diocese until 1836, Ripon's early ecclesiastical history is inextricably associated with Wilfrid.(16) I ask whether he misses the palace and the politicking that went with his bishopric and he replies: u2018Oh no.u2019