piispoilta

Piispoilta is a Finnish term that literally means "from the bishops" and is used to indicate origin, attribution, or collective authorship in historical or formal language. The form is built from the noun piispa (bishop) together with the postpositional suffix -ilta, here in a plural elative sense used to denote source from a group of people rather than a single individual. In practice, piispoilta appears mainly in archival church records, correspondence, or scholarly texts dealing with ecclesiastical matters, where it signals that a statement, decision, or document originates with the bishops as a body rather than with a named person.

The phrase is primarily linguistic and documentary rather than a label for a particular entity. In modern Finnish, its use is relatively rare and typically restricted to formal, historical, or stylistic contexts. It can occur in sentences such as “Tiedot saatiin piispoilta,” meaning information was obtained from the bishops.

There is no widely recognized technical definition or organizational entity known as "piispoilta" beyond this ordinary linguistic usage. Its interpretation relies on context, especially who is referred to as "the bishops" and whether the source is plural or collective. See also Finnish language syntax, ecclesiastical history, and postpositional case forms.