byshop

/B AY1 SH AA1 P/
noun
  1. 1

    Obsolete spelling of bishop. [(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.]