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Abbacy

and the revenues thereof, subject to an abbot, as a bishopric is to a bishop, Cowel. The rights and privileges of

A suffix signifying dominion jurisdiction as bishopric the district over which a bishop exercises authority

A bishopric the office and dignity of a bishop

A diocese the district over which the jurisdiction of a bishop extends

the prince was the ancient mode of granting investitures to bishoprics, 1 Bl. Com. 366.

and promotion, a rectory or vicarage: all church preferments except bishoprics; also a fief in the feudal system. See s. 13(1)