bishopric

noun

Etymology: From Middle English bischopriche, from Old English bisċoprīċe, equivalent to bishop + -ric (compare German Reich).

1. A diocese: a region in which a bishop of a church governs.

   “Later that year, he was appointed to the bishopric of Lindesmeere.”

   “Iohn Fiſher Biſhop of Rocheſter, when the King [Henry VII of England] would have tranſlated him from that poore Biſhopricke to a better, he refuſed, saying: He would not forſake his poore little olde wife, with whom he had ſo long lived.”

2. The office or function of a bishop.

   “Near-synonyms: episcopacy, episcopate, monepiscopacy”