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bishop

The origin and history of bishop.

Etymology

From Old English bisceop, from Latin episcopus ("overseer"), from Greek episkopos ("one who watches over"), from epi- ("over") + skopos ("watcher"). The same Greek root gives us words like "scope" and "telescope".

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