If you have this developing episcopacy, that's just the Greek sort of sounding word for bishop or bishopric or something like that.
All that he knew about these two persons was, that they had been appointed by the king, the one to his bishopric, the other to his benefice, on the same day, the 27th of April, 1785.
A city of northwest Germany on the Weser River south of Bremen. Settled in Roman times, it was founded c.800 as a bishopric by Charlemagne. Minden joined the Hanseatic League in the13th century and passed to Prussia in1814. Population, 75, 419.
