bishop

ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy
Intangible ecclesiastical_occupation Q29182
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bishop

Summary

bishop is an ecclesiastical occupation[1]. bishop ranks in the top 2% of ecclesiastical_occupation entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,711 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • bishop's religion is recorded as Christianity[3].
  • bishop's instance of is recorded as ecclesiastical occupation[4].
  • bishop's instance of is recorded as Christian religious occupation[5].
  • bishop's instance of is recorded as episcopal title[6].
  • bishop's instance of is recorded as position[7].
  • bishop is a type of head of a diocese[8].
  • bishop is a type of pastor[9].
  • bishop is a type of episcope[10].
  • bishop is part of clergy[11].
  • bishop's Commons category is recorded as Bishops[12].
  • bishop's said to be the same as is recorded as Q110612408[13].
  • bishop's honorific prefix is recorded as Excellency[14].
  • bishop's honorific prefix is recorded as Monsignor[15].
  • bishop's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Bishops[16].
  • bishop's applies to jurisdiction is recorded as diocese[17].
  • bishop's applies to jurisdiction is recorded as eparchy[18].
  • bishop's depicted by is recorded as Two holy bishops (Geminianus and Severus?)[19].
  • bishop's described by source is recorded as Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[20].
  • bishop's described by source is recorded as Orthodox Theological Encyclopedia[21].
  • bishop's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[22].
  • bishop's described by source is recorded as Regesta Imperii XIII[23].
  • bishop's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[24].
  • bishop's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[25].
  • bishop's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[26].
  • bishop's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[27].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include ecclesiastical occupation[4], Christian religious occupation[5], episcopal title[6], and position[7]. Recorded subclass of include head of a diocese[8], pastor[9], and episcope[10].

Use and Application

bishop is part of clergy[11].

Influence

Things named for bishop include bishop-fish[28], a mythical creature[29]; cardinal-bishop[30], a position[31]; and San Salvatore al Vescovo[32], a church building[33], in Italy[34], founded in 1221[35].

Why It Matters

bishop ranks in the top 2% of ecclesiastical_occupation entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,711 views/month).[2] bishop has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[36] bishop is known by 88 alternative names across languages and contexts.[37]

Entities named for bishop include bishop-fish[28], a mythical creature[29]; cardinal-bishop[30], a position[31]; and San Salvatore al Vescovo[32], a church building[33], in Italy[34], founded in 1221[35].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [32] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [35] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [36] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [37] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag bishops
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: bishops, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289910414|bishops (#289910414)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'm"
  2. 13d ago · Epìdosis · 2026-09-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Unbis thesaurus id 1000637
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P8370]]: 1000637, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/94365109|BISHOPS (#94365109)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/3629|UNBIS Thesaurus ID]] #mix'"
  3. 13d ago · Epìdosis · 2026-09-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of head of a diocese, pastor, episcope
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ [[Property:P279]]: [[Q1638918]]"
  4. 14d ago · Epìdosis · 2026-09-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Encyclopedia tatarica (ru) online id razdely/religiya/hristianstvo/episkop
    Subclass of head of a diocese, pastor, episcope
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ [[Property:P279]]: [[Q42603]]"
  5. 5w ago · Frhdkazan · 2026-08-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Encyclopedia tatarica (tt) online id razdely/religiya/hristianstvo/episkop
    Subclass of head of a diocese, pastor, episcope
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P8373]]: razdely/religiya/hristianstvo/episkop"
  6. 6w ago · Cruzate1492 · 2026-08-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of head of a diocese, pastor, episcope
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P279]]: [[Q140909609]]"
  7. 8w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id AMPA receptor
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  8. 10w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 13mfFS
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  9. 11w ago · DanGFSouza · 2026-07-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Imdb keyword bishop
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P11924]]: bishop, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/193890718|bishop (#193890718)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6965|Top 10,000 IMDb keywords]"
  10. 12w ago · Putnik · 2026-06-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id vyskupas
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P7666]]: vyskupas"
  11. 14w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id h0000255-biskupove
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0000255-biskupove, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  12. 17w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|8 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 5769, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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