bishopess
noun/bɪʃ.əˈpɛs/
Etymology From bishop + -ess.
1
A female bishop.
- Presently there were bishopesses as well as priestesses, splendidly arrayed in chasubles and diadems. These were, from a strictly canonical point of view, the first validly ordained women priests.2003, Patrick Collinson, Elizabethans:
2
The wife of a bishop.