Episcopalia

Synodals, or payments due the bishop. EPISCOPUS (L. Lat). In Civil Law. A superintendent; an inspector. Those in each municipality who had the charge and oversight of the bread and other provisions which served the citizens for their daily food were so called. Vicat; Du Cange. A bishop. These bishops, or episcopi, were held to be the successors of the apostles, and have various titles at different times in had authority or were of peculiar sanctity. After the fall of the Roman empire they came to have very considerable judicial powers. Du Cange; Vicat; Calvinus, Lex. EPISTOL/E (Lat). In Civil Law. Rescripts; opinions given by the emperors in cases submitted to them for decision. Answers of the emperors to petitions. The answers of counsellors (juris-consulta), as Ulpian and others, to questions of law proposed to them, were also called epistolcB. Opinions written out. The term originally signified the same as literce. Vicat.

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In ecclesiastical law. Synodals, and other customary payments from the clergy to their bishop, formerly collected by the rural deans.

In ecclesiastical law. Synodals, pentecostals, and other customary payments from the clergy to their diocesan pishop, formerly collected by the rural deans. Cowell.

Lat. [from ep Ucopvs, q. V.J In ecclesiastical law. Synodals, pentecostals, and other customary payments from the clergy to their diocesan bishop, formerly collected by the rural deans. Cowell. EniSKOn02:,"En(a%onog. Gr. [from. inwxinTOfia&, to look around upon, to oversee.] A bishop; an overseer, supervisor or superintendent. Calv. Lex. Jur. See Episcopus.