Episcopium

{{Short description|Palace of a bishop}}

An episcopium (Latin for an episcopal palace) is an ecclesiastical figure and their administration. The episcopium emphasizes "an essential unity between his [the bishop's] person, power and place."Miller, M. C., The Bishop’s Palace: Architecture & Authority in Medieval Italy, Cornell University Press, 2000, p. 14 In medieval Italy episcopia were frequently part of a complex connected to the baptistery and cathedral.Miller, M. C., The Bishop’s Palace, Cornell University Press, 2000, p. 20

In Rome, the Basilica of St. John Lateran housed the Lateran Palace. This was the principal episcopium of medieval Rome, although Pope John VII (705–707) built an episcopium upon the Palatine Hill.Augenti, A., Il Palatino nel Medioevo, Roma, 1996