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A '''chorbishop''', or '''chorepiscopos''', is a rare office of [[clergy]] in the [[Church]]. The name is taken from the Greek Χωρεπίσκοπος, meaning "country [[bishop]]." He is a bishop with all the essential powers of the episcopal oder but whose faculty of exercising these powers is limited. In the early Church he would confer minor orders only. His functions were supervised by his metropolitan. Although the office was quite common in the patristic age, today it is almost solely an honorary title.<ref>See Palladius, [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/palladius-lausiac.asp The Lausiac History]. ACW 34 (Washington, 1964), p 200, note 340.</ref>
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