Category:Bishops

Bishop is an ecclesiastical in many Christian churches.

In the Catholic church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and many Protestant sects, a bishop is a clergyman of some importance. Most often a bishop is responsible for overseeing his or her church's activities within a designated geographical area, responsibility which usually includes supervisory authority over the priests and ministers operating within that territory.

In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, bishop is the highest priestly office in the Aaronic priesthood. A bishop is usually the leader of a local community of church members, and the role is more nearly analogous to a pastor or parish priest in Catholic and Protestant traditions than it is to the bishops of those churches.