Example sentences for: bishops

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

  • 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.

  • The Italian papers Friday fronted what they called a snub to Pope John Paul II by China, when it consecrated five "patriotic" Roman Catholic bishops in Beijing without his authorization.

  • How many Catholics who signed the letter to Gore know, for example, that some two-thirds of the government-appointed Catholic bishops have been reconciled with Rome?

  • La Repubblica of Rome was preoccupied with the Vatican's difficulty in finding a new commanding officer for the pope's 100-strong Swiss Guard, it being the view of the Swiss bishops that the deputy commander, Lt.

  • 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."


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