Why this word is great
EPISCOPOLATRY — [Noun] Excessive devotion to bishops or the institution of episcopacy. From Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, "bishop") + -latry, from Ancient Greek λατρεία (latreía, "worship"). Unlike "episcopacy" (which denotes the office itself) or "clericalism" (which implicates the broader clergy), episcopolatry fixates on the mitred figurehead—the way light catches a bishop’s ring during benediction, the hushed reverence for his every pronouncement, the way his very presence seems to sanctify a room. It is the unspoken belief that holiness is not a quality but a rank, and that the divine flows downward through the chain of command rather than upward through the cracks in human frailty.