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...
- brother and heir, James, Duke of York. The restoration of the Scottish Episcopacy led to a series of conflicts between Presbyterians and the Bishops of...
- have not been bishops in the Church of Scotland since the Restoration Episcopacy of the 17th century, although there have occasionally been attempts to...
- 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...
- Independent factions dominated. The episcopacy was abolished in 1646 but the Restoration restored the Church of England, episcopacy and the Book of Common Prayer...
- Mark Anthony Pivarunas CMRI (born 31 October 1958) is an American sedevacantist Traditionalist Catholic bishop and the Superior General of the Congregation...
- Henry Hean Daniels (February 14, 1885 - March 5, 1958) was a bishop in The Episcopal Church, serving in Montana. Daniels was born on February 14, 1885...
- Lawrence J. ****van (born January 22, 1966) is an American priest of the Catholic Church who was appointed as auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of...
- František Tomášek (30 June 1899, in Studénka, Moravia – 4 August 1992, in Prague, Czechoslovakia) was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church in Bohemia...