Examples from literature

• It is the only episcopal city whose cathedral was left standing in the rage of Reformation. 
• Monasteries sought to be independent of all foreign control and of episcopal jurisdiction. 
• One day a troop of hungry beggars came crowding to the episcopal palace crying for food. 
• The arbitration of bishops had the force of positive law, and judges were instructed to execute the episcopal decrees. 
• The town was for several centuries an episcopal see.