# The Bishop — Getting Married character guide

> The Bishop in Getting Married by George Bernard Shaw.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Bishop, The Bishop Mrs. Collins

**First appearance:** 0054-getting-married

## Snapshot

A worldly cleric who presides over the wedding and finds himself defending an institution his own church once attacked.

## Who they are

The Bishop represents established authority at the ceremony, called upon to bless a union whose premises the other guests are busy dismantling. His position is genuinely awkward: Christianity began as an attack on marriage, and his own celibate tradition sits uneasily beside the domestic rite he is performing. He matters because he embodies the institutional voice the play keeps interrogating — confident on the surface, exposed underneath.

## Relationships

### [Reginald Hotchkiss](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/getting_married_se/characters/reginald_hotchkiss)

_social_

Reginald Hotchkiss and The Bishop are polite acquaintances, often engaging in intellectual or social conversation.

### [Collins](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/getting_married_se/characters/collins)

_professional_

Collins and The Bishop have a servant-employer relationship, with Collins serving the household under the Bishop's authority.

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