"A merry Christmas, Bob!" said Scrooge, with an earnestness that could not be mistaken, as he clapped him on the back. "A merrier Christmas, Bob, my good fellow, than I have given you, for many a year! I'll raise your salary, and endeavour to assist your struggling family, and we will discuss your affairs this very afternoon, over a Christmas bowl of smoking bishop, Bob! Make up the fires, and buy another coal-scuttle before you dot another i, Bob Cratchit!"
King Jamesof blessed memory said, no Bishop, no King: it was not he, but others that added, No Ceremony, no Bishop.
1715, William Hendley, A Defence of the Church of England, 16
St. Ignatius... In his 'Epiſtle to the Magneſians,' he exhorts them to do all things in the love of God, telling them, the Biſhop preſides in the place of God...
1845, J. Lingard, Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church 3rd ed., I. iv. 146
These ministers were at first confined to the three orders of bishops, priests, and deacons.
1868, Joseph Barber Lightfoot, St. Paul's epistle to the Philippians, 93
It is a fact now generally recognized by theologians of all shades of opinion, that in the language of the New Testament the same officer in the Church is called indifferently ‘bishop’ ἐπίσκοπος and ‘elder’ or ‘presbyter’ πρεσβύτερος.
The Jubilee Mass had a special solemnity due to the presence of two exiled Chinese bishops—Thomas Cardinal Tien, Archbishop of Peking, and Bishop Joseph Yuen, of Chu-ma-tien, Honan—as well as the recently named bishop of Taichung, Formosa, Most Rev. William Kupfer, MM, who was in the United States to attend the Maryknoll General Chapter.
1773, The Anglo-Saxon version from the historian [Paulus] Orosius, by Ælfred the Great. With an Engl[ish] tr[anslation] from the Anglo-Saxon [by the editor, D. Barrington], page 182:
In the year of Rome 621, when Licinius Crassus was Consul (who was the oldest Bishop amongst the Romans) he marched against King Aristonicus, […]
1974, Nancy J. Hafkin, Trade, society, and politics in Northern Mozambique, c. 1753-1913, page 44:
The head of the Qadiriyya was the shehe who resided on Mozambique Island, to[sic] whom the Portuguese referred to as the Muslim "bishop" of Mozambique.
2001, José Carlos Valle Pérez, Jorge Rodrigues, El arte románico en Galicia y Portugal, page 254:
[…] a Mozarabic heterodoxy, which explains the beheading of the Muslim Bishop of Lisbon, soon after the Reconquista.
2018, Merran Fraenkel, Tribe and Class in Monrovia, page 139:
The [holder of the office of] Imam [of Monrovia] is commonly referred to, both in conversation and in the press, as ‘the Muslim Bishop’.
