Definitions for episcopacies

episcopacies e·pis·co·pa·cy

Spelling: [ih-pis-kuh-puh-see]
IPA: /ɪˈpɪs kə pə si/

Episcopacies is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 433 anagrams from letters in episcopacies (acceeiioppss).

Definitions for episcopacies

noun

  1. government of the church by bishops; church government in which there are three distinct orders of ministers, namely bishops, priests or presbyters, and deacons.
  2. episcopate.

Origin of episcopacies

First recorded in 1640-50; episcop(ate) + -acy

Examples for episcopacies

Thus was episcopacy professed in Massachusetts, and thus was it exiled.

He was an equally active opponent of Whitefield and of episcopacy.

If universality be the criterion, then episcopacy cannot claim it.

In England, episcopacy is an engine by which the people are ecclesiastically governed.

At the Revolution, when episcopacy was abolished, the bishops lost their seats.

But a Whig ministry is just now in power, and the Whigs are hostile to episcopacy.

It is to his language about episcopacy that we wish to refer.

The inroads of episcopacy were at this time threatening to disquiet Anwoth.

The archbishop was in France, and episcopacy was not in favour.

In 1637, when episcopacy began to be the losing cause, he returned to his flock.

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