Sentence:  An "apostle", or <WSD>"angel</WSD>", or "bishop", as he is now called, resided with a college of presbyters about him, in every considerable city of the Roman empire; to that <WSD>"angel</WSD>" or "bishop", was committed the pastoral care of all the Christian in the city and its suburbs, exending as far on all sides as the jurisdiction of the civil magistrate extended; 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An official (a bishop, or sometimes a minister) who heads a Christian church, especially a (Catholic Apostolic church).