The Episcopate
The senior clergy that supervised the day to day administration of Church affairs were the bishops and archbishops. In other words, the Episcopate (From the Latin word for the community of bishops; episcopatus.) The archbishops were the senior administrators of the church. Within an area (archdiocese) designated an archbishopric, there would be many smaller areas (dioceses) that bishops presided over. Think of the pope as the "king," the archbishops as the "dukes," the bishops as the "counts," and the local parishes as the smallest domains and you've got a good idea of how it worked. The Medieval church had actually adopted most of their administrative structure from the late Roman Empire. The pope was the "emperor" and had a large staff to assist him. The archbishops "ruled" the "provinces" and the bishops administered the smaller areas within a province. The archbishops and their organizations were referred to as the Episcopate.
Note that in the 14th century, the cardinals served as part of the pope's personal court. It was only later that the archbishoprics were headed by cardinals. Even today, cardinal is a rank, while archbishopric is an official post within the church hierarchy.
The Westerm European Episcopate in 1337, with incombent and the years in which said incombant presided (courtesy Frank Deis.)
French Archbishops in 1337
Aix Armand de B(N)arces 1337 1348
Arles *Guasbert de Laval 1323 1341
Aux *Guilielm IV de Flavacourt 1324 1356
Avignon *Arnaud de la Vie 1317 1334
Besancon Hugo VI de Vienne 1334 1355
Bordeaux *Petrus de Luc 1332 1345
Bourges *Foucaud de Rochechouart 1331 1343
Embrun Bertrand de Deux 1323 1338
Lyon *Guilielm de Sure 1333 1340
Narbonne Bernard de Farges 1311 1341
Rheims *Joannes de Vienne 1334 1351
Rouen *Petrus Roger 1330 1338
Sens *Guilielm de Brosse 1330 1338
Tarantaise *Jacobus de Salino 1335 1341
Tarantaise same as
Moutiers, in Savoy
Vienne *Bertrand de la Chapelle 1327 1352
Toulouse Guilielm. de Laudun 1327 1345
Tours *Petrus Fretault 1335 1357
England, Scotland, Ireland
Canterbury
*Joann Stratford 1333 1348
York *Guilielm de Melton 1317 1340
Glasgow Joannes 1337 1338
St Andrews sedes vacat 1332 1341
Dublin *Alexand. de Biknor 1317 1349
Armagh *David O'Hiraghty 1334 1346
Cashel *Joann O'Grada 1332 1345
Tuam *Malachias Mac-Aeda 1312 1348
Italy
Acerenza Petrus VII (tr. Venosa) 1335 1343
Amalfi Landulf. Carracciolo Rossi 1331 1351
(OSFr)
Aquilea *(Beat) Bertrand de S. 1334 1350
Genes
Aquilea-2 St Bertrand of Angouleme,
Patriarch not A.B.
Bari Landulphus 1310 1337
Bari-2 Roger.Sanseverino 1338 1347
Benevento Arnald. de Brusacco (O. S. 1333 1344
Fr.)
Brindisi Guilielmus Isnardi 1333 1344
Florence *Franc. Silvestri (tr. 1323 1341
Rimini)
Genoa *Dinus de Radicofani 1336 1342
Milan *Aycardus Antimiani (OSFr) 1317 1339
Monreale Napoleon Fortibracchia 1325 1337
Orsini
Napoli *Joannes Orsini 1328 1358
Pisa Simon Saltarelli 1323 1342
Ravenna Franc. Micheli 1333 1342
Salerno Benedictus (Neapolitanus) 1334 1347
Trani Bartholom. Brancaccio 1328 1341
Spain and Portugal
Braga Gonzalo Pereira 1325 1348
Evora Durand II Alfons. Pirez 1336 1339
Lisbon Joann. Alfons. Brito 1326 1342
Burgos Garcia Torres Sotoscuera 1327 1348
Cordova Joann. Perez 1336 1346
Santiago de Compestella *Joann. Fernandez de Limia 1331 1338
Saragossa Petr. Lopez de Luna (1st 1314 1345
AB)
Seville Joannes (clericus) 1324 1349
Tarragona *Arnald. Cescomes (de 1335.
..1346
Cumbis)
Toledo Ximenes de Luna 1328 1338
Valencia Became archbishopric in
1458
Germany, etc.
Basel Joannes II v. Munsingen 1335 1365
Bremen Hamburg Burcard Grelle 1327 1344
Geneva Petrus II de Faucigny 1311 1342
Koeln Henric von Virneburg 1304 1332
Magdeburg Otto v. Hessen 1327 1361
Mainz Henric von Virneburg 1328 1346
Prag became archbishopric in
1343
Salzburg Frideric III v. Leibnitz 1315 1338
Sion=Sitten Aymo IV v. Thurn u. 1323 1338
Gestelenburg
Trier Balduin of Luxemburg 1307 1354
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