👉 Pseudepiscopacy is a term used in Christian theology to describe the idea that a bishop, who is not elected by his peers and who has been granted the title "bishop" by a church, is in fact an impostor or fraud. This concept was introduced by John Chrysostom, a Greek theologian of the 4th century, who saw it as a way to legitimize the power of bishops over their local communities. Pseudepiscopacy
