The office, position, or authority of a bishop; a term sometimes used as a variant of episcopate.
From bishop + -ure (a system, practice, or result). This rare variant emphasizes the structural nature of the bishop's position or office.
This archaic term shows how people experimented with different word formations to describe church offices—'episcopature' never caught on, but it reveals that medieval thinkers had precise terminology for institutional roles.
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