Daily Ancestorepiscopus
Episcopus is Latin for a bishop, the head of a diocese; episcopi means of the bishop.
Episcopus is the Late Latin church word for a bishop, from a Greek word for overseer. The BYU glossary gives it simply as bishop.
Parish records name him mainly in the heading of a diocese and in marriage entries that mention his permission. The genitive episcopi means of the bishop.
As seen in a recordLatin marriage register, Galicia, 1820s
Cum dispensatione Reverendissimi Episcopi
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