episcopus puerorum

episcopus puerorum
/apiskapas pyuwaroram/ It was an old custom that upon certain feasts some lay person should plait his hair, and put on the garments of a bishop, and in them pretend to exercise episcopal jurisdiction, and do several ludicrous actions, for which reason he was called "bishop of the boys;" and this custom obtained in England long after several constitutions were made to abolish it.

Black's law dictionary. . 1990.

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