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- noun Plural form of
episcope .
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Also, I am very aware that Mgr Burke is a great servant of the Church, and that many European episcopes are just as bad as their American counterparts.
Solemn Pontifical Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, October 18, 2009 2009
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'A bishop (_episcopes_) is literally an overseer, instead of which it is notorious that some of them are overlookers of their duties, and blind to the state of their diocese, though they call it their see. '
Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3 Various 1840
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