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bishop (n.)

  There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by equal laws which it had framed.

Rufus Choate (1799-1859): Speech before the New England Society, Dec. 22, 1843.

  The Americans equally detest the pageantry of a king and the supercilious hypocrisy of a bishop.

Letters of Junius. Letter xxxv.