episcopacy
noun/ɪˈpɪskəpəsi/UK
Etymology
From episcopa(te) + -cy and/or episcopa(l) + -cy.
- derived from ἐπίσκοπος
- derived from episcopus
- derived from episcopatus
Definitions
The office of bishop and the governance of a church (a religious denomination) by bishops.
- 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.
Bishops collectively
Bishops collectively: Synonym of episcopate.
- Near-synonyms: bishopric, bishopry, bishopdom, bishopship, archbishopric, archbishopry, archbishopdom, archbishopship
The neighborhood
- neighborepiscopal
- neighborepiscopalian
- neighborEpiscopalianism
- neighborepiscopate
- neighbornolo episcopari
- neighborconciliarism
- neighborCongregationalism
- neighborecumenical council
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for episcopacy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA