The process or act of converting something to episcopal governance, organizing under bishop leadership, or establishing a bishop's authority over a region.
From 'episcopize' plus the suffix '-ation', which forms nouns from verbs. This noun indicates the large-scale institutional transformation involved in establishing episcopal systems.
Compare this to 'centralization'—'episcopization' is the specific historical process where scattered medieval Christian communities became organized under centralized bishop authority, literally reshaping Christianity's structure.
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