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Bish·op (bshp), J. Michael Born 1936.
American microbiologist. He shared a 1989 Nobel Prize for discovering a sequence of genes that can cause cancer when mutated.


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In Greek the word for "overseer" was episkopos, from which Latin gets episcopus and English gets "bishop.
In these texts there is little distinction between what makes a good diakonos, presbyteros, or episkopos.
The early traditioning of the church in which Peter will eventually be martyred in Rome, where he had become the originating episkopos, sees today's Gospel as its authenticating link.
 
 
 
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