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- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromἐπισκοπή
- English todayepiscopy
From Ancient Greek ἐπισκοπή (episkopḗ), from ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, “overseer, bishop”). See bishop. First attested in 1642 in John Milton’s The Reason of Church-Government Urged against Prelaty.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.