episcopate

After a years episcopate he was first banished and then beheaded under Gallus, a worthy successor in persecution of Decius.

One condition, however, they laid down as absolutely indispensable—the restoration of a legitimate episcopate.

One result of an hereditary Episcopate is that the bishop is often absurdly young in years.

His epitaph says that during his episcopate he kept "nobyl Houshold wyth grete Hospitality."

The government however was far from quailing before the division of the episcopate.