bishopry has definitions from the field of work
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[ noun ] (work) the office of bishop

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(Robert L. Duncan, The Voice of Strangers....)

Even Rector himself was prey to this spirit of competition and he knew it , not for a more exalted office in the hierarchy of the church - his ambitions for the bishopry had died very early in his career - but for the one clear victory he had talked_about to the colonel .

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