a. [f. late L. chōrepiscopus + -AL; see next.] Belonging to a chorepiscopus or country bishop of the early church.
1839. Yeowell, Anc. Brit. Ch., viii. (1847), 83. The abbots … are sometimes styled Bishops; and it is not improbable that they exercised chorepiscopal authority.
1879. Maclear, Celts, iv. 61. As abbot of a famous monastery he wielded chorepiscopal rights in his society.
