Definitions For Chorepiscopus

Noun

CHOREPISCOPUS (plural chorepiscopi or es) A country or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural district. A chorepiscopus, chorepiscopus, the title used by the worldly rulers of the principality of kakheti and kingdom of kakheti-hereti (786-1104) in medieval georgia, which effectively equaled to a king

Derived terms

chorepiscopal

Translations

{{trans-top}} Arabic: خُورْفِسْقُفُوس, m French: chorévêque, m Georgian: ქორეპისკოპოსი Russian: хорепи́скоп, m

Etymology

{{bor+, en, la, chōrepiscopus}}, from {{uder, en, grc, χωρεπίσκοπος, }}; χώρα, , place, country + ἐπίσκοπος, , overseer, bishop (from ἐπί, , on, upon, over + σκοπός, , watcher). Compare bishop.