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monepiscopacy|mɒnɪˈpɪskəpəsɪ|
[f. mono- + episcopacy.]
Government of the Church by bishops endowed with monarchical authority.
1889Gore Ministry Chr. Ch. ii. 73 No one..can maintain that the existence of what may be called, for lack of a distinctive term, monepiscopacy is essential to the continuity of the Church. 1903Dublin Rev. Jan. 84 St. Peter is commonly said by the Fathers to be the type of monepiscopacy.
So moneˈpiscopal a., pertaining to or of the nature of a monepiscopacy; ‖ moneˈpiscopus (quasi-Latin), a monepiscopal bishop.
1891G. G. Findlay tr. Sabatier's Apostle Paul App. 396 The mon-episcopal régime of Ignatius. Ibid. 399 The failure of Baur's attempt to identify the bishop of the Pastorals with the mon-episcopus (or monarchical bishop) of the second century. |