Definition of "episcopates" [episcopates]

• Plural form of episcopate. (noun)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "Purging the rotten Latin American episcopates should have been a priority of Benedict XVI but, unfortunately, he has been more inclined to appoint dubious candidates than John Paul II."
• "There is, it is true, and indult which, on request of the [local] episcopates, allows for the distribution of the host [sic] also on the palm of the hand, but this must remain an extraordinary fact."
• "A long work which does not want to send things down from above by imposition, but to involve the episcopates."