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Episcopally

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e·pis·co·pal  (-psk-pl)
adj.
1. Of or relating to a bishop.
2. Of, relating to, or involving church government by bishops.
3. Episcopal Of or relating to the Episcopal Church.
[Middle English, from Late Latin episcoplis, from episcopus, bishop; see bishop.]
e·pisco·pal·ly adv.
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But the reference to Luther as a 'God-ordained Priest' would hardly have delighted the episcopally ordained priests of the English church either.
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The Sydney line, for which Carroll became the champion and chief combatant, was that an episcopally directed organisation such as the Catholic Social Studies Movement (the 'Movement') could not engage in political action within a political party; indeed, it had long overreached its mandate in its work of permeating the Labor Party.
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The first treats the development of canonization (which was in the early Middle Ages usually a matter of popular cult followed by episcopally authorized re-burial of the saint's body) into an institution controlled by the papacy.
Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages by Bynum, Caroline Walker / Journal of Social History
 
 
 
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