unbishop

From Middle English *unbishopen (suggested by past participle unbishoped, unbisschoped), equivalent to un- +‎ bishop.

unbishop (third-person singular simple present unbishops, present participle unbishoping or unbishopping, simple past and past participle unbishoped or unbishopped)

1. (transitive) To deprive (e.g. a city etc.) of a bishop.
2. (transitive) To deprive (a clergyman) of episcopal dignity or rights.
   • 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavvses that hitherto have Hindred it; republished as Will Taliaferro Hale, editor, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (Yale Studies in English; LIV), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916, →OCLC:

     Then he unbishops himself.

• “unbishop”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.