Definitions for episcopacy

episcopacy e·pis·co·pa·cy

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

Episcopacy is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 355 anagrams from letters in episcopacy (acceioppsy).

Definitions for episcopacy

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 episcopacy

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

Examples for episcopacy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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