The collective body of bishops.
1 There's still, though, an obsessive quality about the Anglican attachment to episcopacy .
2 He died in 646, in the twentieth year of his episcopacy .
3 They were subsequently promoted to the episcopacy in the land of their adoption.
4 The episcopacy of the bishops and the Book of Common Prayer were restored.
5 When Charles was captured in 1646, the episcopacy of the bishops was abolished.
6 Anyhow, the true church is one thing, and prelatical episcopacy another.
7 Fifty years earlier episcopacy and ceremonialism seemed to most Anglicans comparatively unimportant in themselves.
8 Forbes wrote very well; but I believe he wrote before episcopacy was quite extinguished.'
9 Ought not a guarantee like that to have been sufficient for the French episcopacy ?
10 All the laws in favour of episcopacy were repealed.
11 But by and bye the drawbacks of episcopacy begin to push themselves upon your notice.
12 They abhorred episcopacy in the Church, but were well enough contented with monarchy in the state.
13 The Lutherans rejected the divinely ordained character of episcopacy , but retained bishops as convenient administrative officers.
14 However, episcopacy did not have quite so strong a hold on this household as it once had.
15 In Polycarp's Epistle on the other hand, as I have already said, there is no mention of episcopacy .
16 Keener's name for the episcopacy .
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