episcopacy，英语单词，主要用作名词，作名词时译为“主教制度；主教的职位”。

1.N government of a Church by bishops 主教制

the episcopacy 主教

bishopric episcopacy 主教的职位

Since the poem's initial appearance, the institution of episcopacy, or church hierarchy, has been seriously eroded.

从这首诗初次面世以来，主教制度，或者说教会的等级制就已经被严重腐蚀了。

By 1612, James had succeeded in carrying out the first part of his policy, the re-establishment of diocesan episcopacy.

通过第1612詹姆斯曾成功地进行了第一部分，他的政策，重新建立的教区主教。

If you have this developing episcopacy, that's just the Greek sort of sounding word for bishop or bishopric or something like that.

现在看到这种主教制度的发展了，“episcopacy“是希腊语中的主教，词藻华丽了一点而已,也作“主教的辖区“的意思。