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单词 episcopacy
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episcopacy

/ɪˈpɪskəpəsi / /ɛˈpɪskəpəsi/
noun (plural episcopacies) [mass noun]
1Government of a Church by bishops.Second, there is the theological import of the American church's commitment to episcopacy....
  • By maintaining the practice of episcopacy, the post-Reformation Church of England drew its legitimacy from Medieval custom, not Biblical authority.
  • In the American church, these two schools of thought on episcopacy can best be illustrated by William White and by his nemesis, Samuel Seabury.
1.1 (the episcopacy) The bishops of a region or church collectively.The molesters and their protectors in the episcopacy come from across the ideological landscape, from liberal to conservative churchmen, from priests trained before Vatican II to those ordained afterward....
  • The brave bishop has too few cohorts in the American episcopacy who are willing to challenge the ‘official’ state religion in the U.S.A.
  • Do you think that, on the whole, the American episcopacy is doing a poor job of communicating the gospel to its flock?
1.2The office of a bishop.Orthodox people certainly can deeply appreciate the Rhodes conclusions regarding the impossibility of ordaining women to the priesthood and episcopacy....
  • Clergy especially are familiar with gently complaining stories like that of the Anglican and the Presbyterian arguing over whether the episcopacy is established in the Bible.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from ecclesiastical Latin episcopatus 'episcopate', on the pattern of prelacy.

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