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e·pis·co·pa·cy

(ĭ-pĭs′kə-pə-sē)

n. pl. e·pis·co·pa·cies

2. A system of church government in which bishops are the chief clerics.

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episcopacy

(ɪˈpɪskəpəsɪ)

n, pl -cies

1. (Ecclesiastical Terms) government of a Church by bishops

2. (Ecclesiastical Terms) another word for episcopate

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e•pis•co•pa•cy

(ɪˈpɪs kə pə si)

n., pl. -cies.

1. government of the church by bishops.

2. episcopate.

[1640–50]

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episcopacy - the collective body of bishops

episcopate

people - (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience"

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episcopato

episcopacy

[ɪˈpɪskəpəsɪ] N → episcopado m

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episcopacy

n (Eccl) → Episkopat nt; the episcopacy → das Episkopat, die Gesamtheit der Bischöfe

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They are minded, also, to establish the idolatrous forms of English Episcopacy; so that, when Laud shall kiss the Pope's toe, as cardinal of Rome, he may deliver New England, bound hand and foot, into the power of his master!

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Although not succinctly stated in any one place, Giandrea's driving thesis seems to be that the late Anglo-Saxon episcopacy has not received its due-and that for a number of reasons, among the chief of which is this: modem historians like Frank Barlow, Henry Loyn, and Emma Mason have accepted too uncritically later Anglo-Norman depictions of the later Anglo-Saxon bishops.