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Example sentences for: bishops

How can you use “bishops” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The bishops called their position old news, but gay Catholics found the shift in emphasis significant.
There were, for example, British bishops at the Council of Arles, in 314.
Tories, my dear, are people who like to have a queen, and lords, and bishops, and more or less remain as they are--whilst Radicals object to having a queen and a House of Lords, and are dissatisfied with everything and everybody, jealous of all who are better off than themselves, and are always trying to rob them of their property, and, in fact, they're a pack of infernal rogues and scoundrels!
Catholic Conference of Bishops called for acceptance of homosexuality . The bishops said homosexual orientation "cannot be considered sinful," because it "is experienced as a given."
The Covenanters faced severe persecution at the hands of the king’s supporters, who had decided to follow his father’s policy of imposing bishops on the Scots.