1. the episcopate
   the bishops of a particular church or areaTopics
2. the job of bishop or the period of time during which somebody is bishop
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from ecclesiastical Latin episcopatus ‘made a bishop’, from episcopus ‘bishop’, from Greek episkopos ‘overseer’, from epi ‘above’ + -skopos ‘-looking’.

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