[f. L. episcopus + -ATION.] The action of making a person a bishop; the fact of becoming a bishop.
1872. M. Collins, Pr. Clarice, II. xviii. 213. Her [a bishop’s wife’s] quasi-episcopation can hardly be expected to affect you. Ibid. (a. 1876), in Pen Sketches (1879), I. 251. The story of the episcopation of the saintly Ken.
