or Country-Bishop, an attendant to a bishop, first introduced into the church when the diocese became enlarged by the conversion of the Pagans in the country and villages at a distance from the mother-church.

CHOREPISCOPUS is also the name of a dignity in some cathedrals in Germany, signifying the same with chori-episcopus, or bishop of the choir. The first chanter in the church of Cologne is called chori-episcopus.