Episcopi vagantes (singular: episcopus vagans) are persons who have been consecrated as Christian bishops outside the structures and canon law of the established churches and are in communion with no generally recognized diocese. Also included are those who have in communion with them a group so small that it appears to exist solely for the bishop's sake. The term is Latin and means "wandering bishops" (or "stray bishops"). Those to whom it is applied see it as pejorative.