Definition of Episcopacy. Meaning of Episcopacy. Synonyms of Episcopacy

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Definition of Episcopacy

Episcopacy
Episcopacy E*pis"co*pa*cy, n. [See Episcopate.] Government of the church by bishops; church government by three distinct orders of ministers -- bishops, priests, and deacons -- of whom the bishops have an authority superior and of a different kind.

Meaning of Episcopacy from wikipedia

- administration of dioceses. The role or office of the bishop is called episcopacy or the episcopate. Organisationally, several Christian denominations utilise...
- Of Prelatical Episcopacy is a religious tract written by John Milton in either June or July 1641. The tract, the shortest of Milton's tracts on prelatical...
- Archbishop of Paraná, Argentina. Having consecrated Anunciado Serafini to the episcopacy, Guilland is in the episcopal lineage of Pope Francis. Profile of Guilland...
- Lawrence John ****van is an American priest of the Catholic Church who serves as auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Chicago. ****van was born in...
- the extant legal structures of the church, whose leaders were bishops. Episcopacy was thus seen as a given of the Reformed Ecclesia Anglicana, and a foundation...
- Mark Anthony Pivarunas CMRI (born 31 October 1958) is an American sedevacantist Traditionalist Catholic bishop and the Superior General of the Congregation...
- František Tomášek (30 June 1899, in Studénka, Moravia – 4 August 1992, in Prague, Czechoslovakia) was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church in Bohemia...
- allotted the episcopacy of the succession of Peter in Antioch". While usually interpreted as the author excluding Peter from the episcopacy yet designating...
- Philip Moger (born 25 April 1955) is an English bishop of the Catholic Church serving as auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Southwark. As of 24 February...
- John VIII of Constantinople (Gr****: Ἰωάννης Ξιφιλῖνος; c. 1010 – 2 August 1075), a native of Trebizond, was a Byzantine intellectual, jurist, and E****enical...