bishopとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English bischop, bishop, bisshop, biscop, from 古期英語 bisċop (“bishop”), from British Latin *biscopo or Vulgar Latin (e)biscopus, from classical Latin episcopus (“overseer, supervisor”), from Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, “overseer”), from ἐπί (epí, “over”) + σκοπός (skopós, “watcher”), used in Greek and Latin both generally and as a title of civil officers. Cognate with all European terms for the position in various Christian churches (see below); compare bisp.

別の表記

• (廃れた用法) byshop

A Staunton bishop (chess)

Danish Lutheran bishops (Christianity).

名詞

bishop (複数形 bishops, feminine bishopess)

1. (Christianity) An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively または nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory.
   • 1641, ‘Smectymnuus’, Vindic. Answer Hvmble Remonstr., §16. 208

     King James of blessed memory said, no Bishop, no King: it was not he, but others that added, No Ceremony, no Bishop.

   • 1715, William Hendley, A Defence of the Church of England, 16

     St. Ignatius... In his 'Epiſtle to the Magneſians,' he exhorts them to do all things in the love of God, telling them, the Biſhop preſides in the place of God...

   • 1845, J. Lingard, Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church 3rd ed., I. iv. 146

     These ministers were at first confined to the three orders of bishops, priests, and deacons.

   • 1868, Joseph Barber Lightfoot, St. Paul's epistle to the Philippians, 93

     It is a fact now generally recognized by theologians of all shades of opinion, that in the language of the New Testament the same officer in the Church is called indifferently ‘bishop’ ἐπίσκοπος and ‘elder’ or ‘presbyter’ πρεσβύτερος.

   1. (religion, nonstandard) A similar official or chief priest in another religion.
      • 1586, Thomas Bowes translating Pierre de la Primaudaye's The French Academie, I. 633

        The Caliphaes of the Sarasins were kings and chiefe bishops in their religion.

      • 1615, William Bedwell, Arabian Trudgman in translating Mohammedis Imposturæ, sig. N4

        The Byshop of Egypt is called the Souldan.

      • 2001, José Carlos Valle Pérez, Jorge Rodrigues, El arte románico en Galicia y Portugal, page 254:

        […] which explains the beheading of the Muslim Bishop of Lisbon, soon after the Reconquista.

      • 2018, Merran Fraenkel, Tribe and Class in Monrovia, page 139:

        The [holder of the office of] Imam [of Monrovia] is commonly referred to, both in conversation and in the press, as ‘the Muslim Bishop’.

2. (obsolete) The holder of the Greek or Roman position of episcopus, supervisor over the public dole of grain, etc.
   • 1808, The Monthly Magazine and British Register, 26 109

     They gave away corn, not cash; and Cicero was made bishop, or overseer, of this public victualling.

3. (obsolete) Any watchman, inspector, or overlooker.
   • 1592, Lancelot Andrewes, Sermons (1843), v. 516

     No pinnacle so high but the devil is a bishop over it, to visit and overlook it.

4. A chief of the Festival of Fools or St. Nicholas Day.
5. (chess) The chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines and developed from the shatranj alfil ("elephant") and was originally known as the aufil or archer in English.
   • 1562, Rowbotham in Archaeologia, XXIV. 203

     The Bishoppes some name Alphins, some fooles, and some name them Princes; other some call them Archers.

   • 1656, Francis Beale translating Gioachino Greco as The royall game of chesse-play, being the study of Biochimo, 2

     A Bishop or Archer, who is commonly figured with his head cloven.

6. Any of various African birds of the genus Euplectes; a kind of weaverbird closely related to the widowbirds.
7. (dialectal) A ladybug or ladybird, beetles of the family Coccinellidae.
   • 1875, William Douglas Parish, A Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect

     ‘Bishop, Bishop-Barnabee,

     Tell me when my wedding shall be;

     If it be to-morrow day,

     Ope your wings and fly away.

8. A sweet drink made from wine, usually with oranges, lemons, and sugar; mulled and spiced port.
   • ante 1745, Jonathan Swift, Women who cry Apples in Works (1746), VIII. 192

     Well roasted, with Sugar and Wine in a Cup,

     They'll make a sweet Bishop.

   • 1791, J. Boswell, Life of Johnson, anno 1752 I. 135

     A bowl of that liquor called Bishop, which Johnson had always liked.

   • 1801, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poems, II. 169

     Spicy bishop, drink divine.

9. (US, archaic) A bustle.
   • c. 1860, John Saxe, Progress

     If, by her bishop, or her 'grace' alone,

     A genuine lady, or a church, is known.

10. (Britain, dialectal, archaic) A children's smock or pinafore.
    • 1874, Evelyn Waugh in Lanc. Gloss. (E.D.S.)

      Here; tak him, an wesh him; an' put him a clen bishop on.

使用する際の注意点

Generally speaking, Christian churches observe their highest positions—popes, patriarchs, archbishops, etc.—as specially-empowered bishops; thus the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church is the Bishop of Rome, while the Pope of the Coptic Church is nominally bishop of Alexandria though resident in Cairo. In several denominations, the charism of a laying on of hands is believed to introduce new bishops to an unbroken apostolic succession initiated by the Holy Spirit (also called the Holy Ghost) at Pentecost described in the 2nd chapter of the Book of Acts.

Traditionally, the rank of bishop has been restricted to men and many conservative denominations continue this practice. Even denominations permitting the marriage of priests (such as Eastern Orthodoxy) typically require complete celibacy from those promoted to bishophood: owing to traditional aversions to divorce, this usually restricts the rank to single men and widowers. Catholic bishops are also priests; Eastern Orthodox bishops are usually (but not always) monks.

同意語

• (normally) diocesan bishop, suffragan bishop
• (canon law) ordinary, (Eastern Orthodoxy) hierarch
• (as creators of priests) consecrator

下位語

Holonyms

• (Roman Catholicism, Methodism, worldwide) college
• (Eastern Orthodoxy, worldwide) Holy Synod, synod
• (Roman Catholicism, regional) conference, episcopal conference
• (others, regional) assembly, sobor, synod
• (ad hoc) council, ecumenical council
• (ad hoc, pejorative) conciliabule, conciliabulum
• (for cardinals) college, conclave

派生語

• (church official, supervisor of priests かつ congregations):

• (African weaverbirds):

関連する語

• (abbreviation) Bp.
• (female) bishopess
• episcopal, Episcopalian, episcopate
• bishopric

派生した語

• Tok Pisin: bisop
• → Hawaiian: pīhopa
• → Japanese: ビショップ
• → Kannada: ಬಿಷಪ್ (biṣap)
• → Korean: 비숍 (bisyop)
• → Maori: pīhopa
• → Thai: บิชอป (bì-chɔ́p)

参考

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