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Chorepiscopus
Chorepiscopus Cho`re*pis"co*pus, n.; pl. Chorepiscopi. [L., fr. Gr. ?; ?, ?, place, country + ? bishop. Cf. Bishop.] (Eccl.) A ``country' or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural district.

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- description, coined the binomial name Tanagra episcopus and cited Brisson's work. The specific name episcopus is Latin for "bishop". The current genus Thraupis...
- for a "stork"; the specific epithet episcopus is Latin for "bishop". Two subspecies are recognised: C. e. episcopus (Boddaert, 1783) – India to Indochina...
- In Christianity, an episcopus vagans (plural episcopi vagantes; Latin for 'wandering bishops' or 'stray bishops') is a person consecrated, in a "clandestine...
- Maximus was the first Visigothic bishop of Zaragoza (Hispania) in 592–619. He was also a theologian and historian. He succeeded Simplicius of Zaragoza...
- Rome, Damasus, as a pontifex, and the bishop of Alexandria, Peter, as an episcopus: ... the profession of that religion which was delivered to the Romans...
- Sulpitius (or Sulpicius) II. the Pious (/sʌlˈpɪʃəs/; died 17 January 646) was a 7th-century bishop of Bourges and saint. According to his Vita, Sulpitius...
- formerly considered a subspecies of the Asian woolly-necked stork (C. episcopus), and called the woolly-necked stork, but was split as a distinct species...
- A suffragan bishop is a type of bishop in some Christian denominations. In the Catholic Church, a suffragan bishop leads a diocese within an ecclesiastical...
- city in Finland and residence of a Bishopric (the Bishopric of Turku; or episcopus Aboensis). As a result of Protestant Reformation in the 16th century the...
- Episcopus, Chlotarius II Francorum Rex, SS Honorius I, Dagobertus Francorum Rex, Hadoinudus Cenomanensis Episcopus, Sulpicius Bituricensis Episcopus,...