Catholic bishop

A Catholic bishop is a high-ranking ordained minister in the Catholic Church who possesses the fullness of the sacrament of Holy Orders and is responsible for teaching doctrine, governing a diocese, and sanctifying the faithful through the sacraments.

Observed surface forms (26)

• Catholic priest ×63
• bishop ×24
• Doctor of the Church ×17
• Catholic cardinal ×16
• Roman Catholic bishop ×12
• Roman Catholic archbishop ×10
• archbishop ×10
• Archbishop ×6
• Prince-Bishop ×4
• Roman Catholic prelate ×4

• Catholic prelate ×3
• cardinal of the Catholic Church ×3
• diocesan bishop ×3
• prince-bishop ×3
• African-American religious leader ×2
• Catholic archbishop ×2
• 7th-century bishop ×1
• American prelate ×1
• Archbishop of Manila ×1
• Argentine Roman Catholic archbishop ×1
• Argentine Roman Catholic priest ×1
• Catholic Church prelate ×1
• Latin Church bishop ×1
• Roman Catholic clergyman ×1
• South Korean Roman Catholic bishop ×1
• counter-reformation leader ×1

Instances (163)

• Michael Augustine Corrigan via concept surface "Roman Catholic archbishop"
• Fernando de Valdés via concept surface "Roman Catholic prelate"
• Tiso via concept surface "Catholic priest"
  surface form: Jozef Tiso
• John Cardinal McCloskey via concept surface "Catholic cardinal"
• Terence Cooke via concept surface "Catholic cardinal"
• João Braz de Aviz via concept surface "Catholic cardinal"
• Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln via concept surface "bishop"
• Edward Sorin via concept surface "Catholic priest"
• Saint Vincent de Paul via concept surface "Catholic priest"
• Theodulf of Orléans via concept surface "bishop"
• Pope Urban II via concept surface "Catholic priest"
• Pope Paschal II via concept surface "Catholic priest"
• Wibert of Ravenna (Antipope Clement III) via concept surface "archbishop"
  surface form: Wibert of Ravenna
• Leander of Seville via concept surface "Archbishop"
• Aurelius Ambrosius via concept surface "Doctor of the Church"
• Fourier via concept surface "Catholic priest"
  surface form: Pierre Fourier
• Pope Agatho
• Giovanni via concept surface "Catholic priest"
  surface form: Giovanni de' Medici
• Saint Charles Borromeo via concept surface "archbishop"
  surface form: Charles Borromeo
• José Rodríguez Carballo via concept surface "Catholic archbishop"
• Pope Adrian VI via concept surface "Catholic priest"
• Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte via concept surface "Catholic prelate"
• Hugh de Balsham via concept surface "Roman Catholic bishop"
• Quarracino via concept surface "Catholic cardinal"
  surface form: Antonio Quarracino
• Pope Marcellus II
• Giovanni via concept surface "Catholic priest"
  surface form: Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte
• Sinibaldo Fieschi via concept surface "Catholic priest"
• Luigi Sturzo via concept surface "Catholic priest"
• The Warrior Pope via concept surface "Catholic priest"
  surface form: Pope Julius II
• John Carroll
• Pope Francis
• Bishop of Lincoln via concept surface "diocesan bishop"
• Michael Bruce Curry via concept surface "bishop"
• Saint Sava via concept surface "archbishop"
• Pope Gregory IX via concept surface "Catholic priest"
• Remigius de Fécamp via concept surface "Roman Catholic bishop"
• Innocentius PP. IV via concept surface "Catholic priest"
• Jorge via concept surface "Catholic priest"
  surface form: Jorge Mario Bergoglio
• Pope Benedict XVI via concept surface "cardinal of the Catholic Church"
• Ramón José Castellano via concept surface "Roman Catholic archbishop"
• Bishop of Urgell via concept surface "Roman Catholic bishop"
  surface form: Joan-Enric Vives i Sicília
• Martin Luther via concept surface "Catholic priest"
• Pope Pius III via concept surface "Catholic priest"
• Camerlengo Patrick McKenna via concept surface "Catholic priest"
• Stephen Langton via concept surface "Roman Catholic archbishop"
• Saint Turibius of Mogrovejo via concept surface "Roman Catholic archbishop"
• Giovanni Angelo via concept surface "Catholic priest"
• Diocese of Chosica via concept surface "Roman Catholic bishop"
  surface form: Norberto Strotmann Hoppe
• Lotario dei Conti di Segni via concept surface "Catholic priest"
• Claretian Missionaries
  surface form: Anthony Mary Claret