Meanings of episcopal city in English

One day he arrived at Senez, which is an ancient episcopal city.

With anxious forebodings, the Princess followed her husband to the ancient episcopal city.

Avila is an episcopal city in Spain, capital of a province of the same name.

There was not one good Samaritan among all the wayfarers from the rich episcopal city.

Even at Mentz, an episcopal city, the Nuncio Aleander was in danger of being stoned.

Such an utter breach of decorum was never heard of within the walls of the episcopal city.

Late in the evening, he arrived on the banks of the river that surrounds the episcopal city of Durham.

Old Aberdeen is the ancient episcopal city, in which are still to be seen the remains of the cathedral.

The Bishop of Bagai, fortified in his episcopal city and basilica, had stood an actual siege from the Roman troops.

Beyond, but in immediate proximity, lay the ancient episcopal city and province of Utrecht, over which lay the road to the adjacent Holland and Zeeland.

Dr. Frederick B. Allen, of the Episcopal City Mission of Boston, writing in the Herald of August 31, says:-

The episcopal cities of Scotland, I believe, generally fell with their churches, though some of them have since recovered by a situation convenient for commerce.