Bishop leading the French chants offers benedictions (9)
I believe the answer is:
blessings
'benedictions' is the definition.
('blessing' can be a synonym of 'benediction')
'bishop leading the french chants' is the wordplay.
'leading' indicates taking the first letters.
'the french' becomes 'les' (les is the in french).
'chants' becomes 'sings' (I've seen this before).
The initial letter of 'bishop' is 'b'.
'b'+'les'+'sings'='BLESSINGS'
'offers' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for blessings that I've seen before include "Graces, godsends" , "Benefits" .)