Sentence example with the word 'episcopacy'

episcopacy

abbacy, canonry, chieftaincy, dictatorship, lordship, metropolitanship, pontificate, prelature, princeship, regency, shrievalty

Definition n. the collective body of bishops

Last update: June 17, 2015


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As one of the three principal systems of ecclesiastical polity known to the Christian Church, Presbyterianism occupies an intermediate position between episcopacy and congregationalism.   [Please select]

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As Episcopacy was restored when Charles II.   [Please select]

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Charles refused to call Episcopacy unlawful, or to rescind the old Acts establishing it.   [Please select]

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The claim of rights was passed and declared Episcopacy intolerable.   [Please select]

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Their enjoyment of religious rights was surpassed only by their aversion to Episcopacy.   [Please select]

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Puritanism prevailed in Scotland, Catholicism in Ireland, Anglicanism or Episcopacy in England.   [Please select]

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In a General Assembly at Glasgow (1581) Presbyteries were established; Episcopacy was condemned; the Kirk claimed for herself a separate jurisdiction, uninvadable by the State.   [Please select]

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