By 1612, James had succeeded in carrying out the first part of his policy, the re-establishment of diocesan episcopacy.
现在看到这种主教制度的发展了,“episcopacy“是希腊语中的主教,词藻华丽了一点而已,也作“主教的辖区“的意思。
If you have this developing episcopacy, that's just the Greek sort of sounding word for bishop or bishopric or something like that.