Bishop vs. Dean — What's the Difference?

A bishop is an ordained or appointed member in a religious institution, who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. The title is most often used in Christian churches, but is also used in some Japanese Buddhist institutions, and by the Japanese new religion Tenrikyo.

An administrative officer in charge of a college, faculty, or division in a university.

A high-ranking Christian cleric, in modern churches usually in charge of a diocese and in some churches regarded as having received the highest ordination in unbroken succession from the apostles.

An officer of a college or high school who counsels students and supervises the enforcement of rules.

Abbr. B(Games) A usually miter-shaped chess piece that can move diagonally across any number of unoccupied spaces.

(Ecclesiastical) The head of the chapter of canons governing a cathedral or collegiate church.

Mulled port spiced with oranges, sugar, and cloves.

Roman Catholic Church A priest appointed to oversee a group of parishes within a diocese.

(Christianity) An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory.

The senior member of a body or group

A similar official or chief priest in another religion.

A senior official in a college or university, who may be in charge of a division or faculty (for example, the dean of science) or have some other advisory or disciplinary function (for example, the dean of students).

(obsolete) The holder of the Greek or Roman position of episcopus, supervisor over the public dole of grain, etc.

A dignitary or presiding officer in certain church bodies, especially an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop, in charge of a chapter of canons.

(obsolete) Any watchman, inspector, or overlooker.

The senior member of some group of people.

A chief of the Festival of Fools or St. Nicholas Day.

A hill.

(chess) The chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines and developed from the shatranj alfil ("elephant") and was originally known as the aufil or archer in English.

To serve as a dean.

Any of various African birds of the genus Euplectes; a kind of weaverbird closely related to the widowbirds.

To send (a student) to see the dean of a college or university.

(dialectal) A ladybug or ladybird, beetles of the family Coccinellidae.

A dignitary or presiding officer in certain ecclesiastical and lay bodies; esp., an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop.

A flowering plant of the genus Bifora.

The collegiate officer in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, England, who, besides other duties, has regard to the moral condition of the college.

A sweet drink made from wine, usually with oranges, lemons, and sugar; mulled and spiced port.

The head or presiding officer in the faculty of some colleges or universities.

A bustle.

A registrar or secretary of the faculty in a department of a college, as in a medical, or theological, or scientific department.

A children's smock or pinafore.

The chief or senior of a company on occasion of ceremony; as, the dean of the diplomatic corps; - so called by courtesy.

(Christianity) To act as a bishop, to perform the duties of a bishop, especially to confirm another's membership in the church.

An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college

To confirm (in its other senses).

United States film actor whose moody rebellious roles made him a cult figure (1931-1955)

(Christianity) To make a bishop.

A man who is the senior member of a group;

To provide with bishops.

(Roman Catholic Church) the head of the College of Cardinals

To permit food (especially milk) to burn while cooking (from bishops' role in the inquisition or as mentioned in the quotation below, of horses).

To make a horse seem younger, particularly by manipulation of its teeth.

To murder by drowning.

A spiritual overseer, superintendent, or director.

In the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Anglican or Protestant Episcopal churches, one ordained to the highest order of the ministry, superior to the priesthood, and generally claiming to be a successor of the Apostles. The bishop is usually the spiritual head or ruler of a diocese, bishopric, or see.

In the Methodist Episcopal and some other churches, one of the highest church officers or superintendents.

A piece used in the game of chess, bearing a representation of a bishop's miter; - formerly called archer.

A beverage, being a mixture of wine, oranges or lemons, and sugar.

An old name for a woman's bustle.

To admit into the church by confirmation; to confirm; hence, to receive formally to favor.

To make seem younger, by operating on the teeth; as, to bishop an old horse or his teeth.

A clergyman having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve apostles of Christ

Port wine mulled with oranges and cloves

(chess) a piece that can be moved diagonally over unoccupied squares of the same color