Meaning of episcopacy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The office of bishop and the governance of a church (a religious denomination) by bishops.
   countable, uncountable
2. Bishops collectively: Synonym of episcopate.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Near-synonyms: bishopric, bishopry, bishopdom, bishopship, bishophood, archbishopric, archbishopry, archbishopdom, archbishopship, archbishophood”

“Further religious division occurred during the post-Restoration decades in the reign of Charles II, when strenuous and violent efforts were made by the Government to impose an episcopacy on the Scottish Church.”

“Near-synonyms: bishopric, bishopry, bishopdom, bishopship, archbishopric, archbishopry, archbishopdom, archbishopship”

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