Episcopium

An Episcopium is an ecclesiastical figure and their administration. Episcopium emphasizes “an essential unity between his person, power and place.” In medieval Italy Episcopium were frequently part of a complex connected to the Baptistery and Cathedral.In Rome the Basilica of St. John Lateran housed the Lateran Palace. This was the principal Episcopium of medieval Rome. Although Pope John VII built an Episcopium upon the Palatine Hill.