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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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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.
In May of this year, he was ordained as a bishop by the equally dissident Bishop Michael Cox, who traces his line of succession through a Bishop Kieran Broadberry, who was episcopally ordained at the age of seventeen by Bishop Clemente Gomez, who now describes himself as Pope Gregory XVII, and who was ordained some years ago by a formerly orthodox but subsequently dissident Vietnamese bishop.
This disfigured its real nature as the centre of an episcopally ordered holy town that became a powerful force in the development of the medieval city.
 
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