Definitions for episcopate

episcopate e·pis·co·pate

Spelling: [ih-pis-kuh-pit, -peyt]
IPA: /ɪˈpɪs kə pɪt, -ˌpeɪt/

Episcopate is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 586 anagrams from letters in episcopate (aceeioppst).

Definitions for episcopate

noun

  1. the office and dignity of a bishop; bishopric.
  2. the order or body of bishops.
  3. the incumbency of a bishop.
  4. the diocese of a bishop.

Origin of episcopate

First recorded in 1635-45, episcopate is from the Late Latin word episcopātus the office of a bishop. See bishop, -a

Examples for episcopate

He wished to show that the episcopate is the title of a work, not of an honour.

Hyginus dying after the fourth year of his office, Pius received the episcopate.

From this important position one usually passed to the episcopate.

After resigning his episcopate, he always lived and taught at Cologne.

To restore the episcopate was from this moment his steady policy.

But already, on June 29, Douglas had entered the episcopate of Durham.

Well, I 'd not object to the episcopate if there was some good shooting in the diocese.

Happily the French episcopate are worthy and equal to the emergency.

This is why the Ebionites, who had no episcopate, had also no idea of Catholicity.

The creation of the episcopate, on the contrary, was the work of the second century.

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