episcopize

episcopize (third-person singular simple present episcopizes, present participle episcopizing, simple past and past participle episcopized)

1. (intransitive) To perform the duties of a bishop.
2. (transitive) To consecrate as a bishop.
   • 1820, Robert Southey, The Life of John Wesley:

     An inclination to episcopize was evidently shown in this language; but Wesley did not yet venture upon the act

• episcopal

• “episcopize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.