Definition of "bishopry" []

• The office and dignity of a bishop (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "In June, Muskens requested Pope Benedict XVI to grant him retirement from the bishopry."
• "In any event I think that the problem would demand a General Council of the Church to come to grips with this and other problems, but I do not think that the situation now allows this, infected as the bishopry is by liberals and homosexuals."
• "Under his tutelage the Orthodox bishopry was abolished, and to this day there is much animosity here towards Roman Catholicism, an animosity compounded by that faith's historical arrogance and its deplorable preoccupation with sin and guilt."