Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Chorepiscopus

Chorepiscopus , noun

[Latin, from Greek {not transcribed}; chw^ros, chw`ra, place, country + {not transcribed} bishop. Compare Bishop.]

(Ecclesiastical) A “country” or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural district.