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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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- In Christianity, an episcopus vagans (plural episcopi vagantes; Latin for 'wandering bishops' or 'stray bishops') is a person consecrated, in a "clandestine...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Maximus was the first Visigothic bishop of Zaragoza (Hispania) in 592–619. He was also a theologian and historian. He succeeded Simplicius of Zaragoza...
- Sulpicius II. the Pious (/sʌlˈpɪʃəs/; died 17 January 646) was a 7th-century bishop of Bourges and saint. According to his Vita, Sulpicius was born at...
- Cantuariensis Episcopus, Bonizio Sutrensis Placentinus Episcopus, Guillelmus Metensis Abbas, Wilhelmus Hirsaugensis Abbas, Herimannus Metensis Episcopus, Theodoricus...
- Bonizo of Sutri or Bonitho (c.1045–c.1095) was a Bishop of Sutri and then of Piacenza in central Italy, in the last quarter of the 11th century. He was...
- Taius (Taio, Tago, Tajo, Tajón, Tayon) (c. 600—c. 683) was a bishop of Zaragoza during the Visigothic period, from 651-664, succeeding his teacher Saint...