nonjuring bishop

C2235
concept

A nonjuring bishop is an Anglican bishop who refused to swear allegiance to a new monarch or government, thereby forfeiting official ecclesiastical office while maintaining episcopal orders and often leading a separate, dissenting church body.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
member of the Seven Bishops 1
nonjuring bishop canonical 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: nonjuring bishop
Generated description
A nonjuring bishop is an Anglican bishop who refused to swear allegiance to a new monarch or government, thereby forfeiting official ecclesiastical office while maintaining episcopal orders and often leading a separate, dissenting church body.

Instances (2)

Instance Via concept surface
Jonathan Trelawny member of the Seven Bishops
Archbishop William Sancroft
surface form: William Sancroft