Bishop

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In Christianity, a bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. Bishops are normally responsible for the governance and administration of dioceses, although some function in the various Christian denominations and traditions as auxiliaries, apostolic administrators, and as titular bishops. The role or office of the bishop is called episcopacy or the episcopate. Organisationally, several Christian denominations utilise ecclesiastical structures that call for the position of bishops, while other denominations have dispensed with this office, seeing it as a symbol of power. Bishops have also exercised political authority within their dioceses. Historically, Manichaeism also employed a similar office within their church, having a fixed number of 72 bishops. Traditionally, bishops claim to be within apostolic succession and the historic episcopacy, a direct historical lineage dating back to the original Twelve...

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