Jimmy Carter

My understanding of racial discrimination as a child was highly distorted because the most prominent man in Archery was an African-American bishop. When he came home from up north, where he was in charge of A.M.E. churches in five states, it was front-page news. He was the most successful man in my life.

American President

Junior Seau

Football is a chess game to me. If you move your pawn against my bishop, I'll counter that move to beat you. Football is the same way. I study so much film that I know exactly what teams are going to do. I love knowing what a offense is going to run and stuffing that play.

American Athlete

David Blunkett

Bishops and judges are some of the best politicians in the world. They know how to manipulate the political process.

British Politician

Peter Hollingworth

There are no training courses to make people bishops. You have to learn on the job.

Australian Clergyman

James Thomson

I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop.

Scottish Musician

Richard G. Scott

Seek out your bishop. He will show you how to repent and will help you do it.

American Clergyman

Hans Kung

I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.

Swiss Theologian

Blase J. Cupich

I think that the Pope has trust in every bishop that is appointed.

Richard Dawkins

Bishops sit in the House of Lords automatically.

English Scientist

Boris Spassky

Russian Celebrity

Bishop is a high-ranking position in the church, with leadership responsibilities.

Religious Rank

Bishops often lead special church ceremonies, such as ordinations and confirmations.

Church Ceremonies

A bishop is in charge of a 'diocese', a district of churches in an area.

Diocese Leadership

In chess, bishops are valuable for controlling long diagonals and pinning pieces.

Chess Strategy

Having both bishops in chess is an advantage called the 'bishop pair'.

Bishop Pair

Bishop is a historic drink, and it's rarely found in modern cuisine.

Historical Drink

When drinking bishop, expect a strong aroma of spices, similar to mulled wine.

Spiced Aroma

Artistic 'bishop' patterns mimic the shape of a bishop's mitre or headdress.

Mitre Reference

In birdwatching, 'bishop' refers to specific birds with vibrant plumage, not to clergy.

Birdwatching Term

Males are more colorful than females in species called bishops.

Colorful Birds

 everything's fine in in our church in the lds church she was ordained to the priesthood and was the first assistant to the bishop and so she was you know very involved and so i came home one day because she hadn't shown up at church and she was still in bed and i came in and i said hey what's the deal

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 pieces in order to attack the king and we usually say that I have compensation like the black piece is very much out of the board on the side and I have two bishops which are can be very strong so more or less the game is balanced but it can be dangerous for black okay is it

Giving checkmate is...

 bishops here down through the church to the people and to the laity to the to the great Lords the lesser Lords and the people down here so he is the fount of all goodness and all of these people down here they have little red cartoons coming out of their faces and every

Adam Nicolson: The King...

 After eight decades of rebellion against Spanish power, the Dutch came to favor the idea of self-rule and a political republic. Cities like Delft were unsupervised by kings or bishops, so many artists like Vermeer were left without traditional patrons.

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 and director stanley kubrick marvin minsky an early ai researcher at mit advised kubrick on the direction of ai computer hal 9000 hal 9000 could speak good afternoon mr amer play chess bishop takes knight's pawn and make plans open the pod bay

Science Fiction Inspires...

 tent without food without oxygen now Willie ensel and Barry bishop between them they lost 19 toes so it was a fairly high price to pay that same expedition also lost one climber Jake

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 a Coptic bishop from the third century, who said:, which means in English, "Anyone who wants to see the sunlight clearly needs to wipe his eyes first." It was really important for me

A project of peace,...

 In 1690, a bishop published Sor Juana’s private critique of a respected sermon. In the publication, he admonished Sor Juana to devote herself to prayer rather than debate.

History's "worst" nun -...

 very close proximity and the bishop adopted me as his kid and last year I spoke at his memorial service and wished him well in this life

Bill Strickland:...

 In the city of Alexandria in 415 CE, the bishop and the governor were in a fight.

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