Definition of Episcopacy. Meaning of Episcopacy. Synonyms of Episcopacy

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Definition of Episcopacy

Episcopacy
Episcopacy E*pis"co*pa*cy, n. [See Episcopate.] Government of the church by bishops; church government by three distinct orders of ministers -- bishops, priests, and deacons -- of whom the bishops have an authority superior and of a different kind.

Meaning of Episcopacy from wikipedia

- administration of dioceses. The role or office of the bishop is called episcopacy. Organizationally, several Christian denominations utilize ecclesiastical...
- Of Prelatical Episcopacy is a religious tract written by John Milton in either June or July 1641. The tract, the shortest of Milton's tracts on prelatical...
- the extant legal structures of the church, whose leaders were bishops. Episcopacy was thus seen as a given of the Reformed Ecclesia Anglicana, and a foundation...
- Lawrence John ****van (born January 22, 1966) is an American priest of the Catholic Church who was appointed as auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of...
- and its predecessor denominations, in order of their election to the episcopacy, both living and dead. Founders Thomas Coke 1784 Francis Asbury 1784 Richard...
- Kristin Uffelman White is an Episcopal bishop who is serving as the tenth Bishop of the Diocese of Southern Ohio. She is the first woman to serve that...
- Mark Anthony Pivarunas CMRI (born 31 October 1958) is an American sedevacantist Traditionalist Catholic bishop and the Superior General of the Congregation...
- John VIII of Constantinople (Gr****: Ἰωάννης Ξιφιλῖνος; c. 1010 – 2 August 1075), a native of Trebizond, was a Byzantine intellectual, jurist, and E****enical...
- Philip Moger (born 25 April 1955) is an English bishop of the Catholic Church serving as auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Southwark. As of 13 September...
- Gerard Joseph Hanna (born 22 December 1941) is the bishop emeritus of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wagga Wagga. He was previously a priest in the Roman...