A bishop among people giving recital (9)
I believe the answer is:
narration
'recital' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'a bishop among people' is the wordplay.
'bishop' becomes 'rr' (abbreviation for Right Reverend).
'among' is an insertion indicator.
'people' becomes 'nation'.
'a'+'rr'='arr'
'arr' put into 'nation' is 'NARRATION'.
'giving' is the link.
(Other definitions for narration that I've seen before include "Story" , "Spoken account" , "telling" , "Voice-over in film" , "Account of events" .)