episcopal

[e·pis·co·pal]

Of or pertaining to or characteristic of the Episcopal church

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Governed by bishops; as, an episcopal church.

Adjective
denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops

Adjective
of or pertaining to or characteristic of the Episcopal church; "the Episcopal hierarachy"; "married by an Episcopalian minister"


a.
Governed by bishops; as, an episcopal church.

a.
Belonging to, or vested in, bishops; as, episcopal jurisdiction or authority; the episcopal system.


Episcopal

E*pis"co*pal , a. [L. episcopalis, fr. episcopus: cf. F. '82piscopal. See Bishop.] 1. Governed by bishops; as, an episcopal church. 2. Belonging to, or vested in, bishops; as, episcopal jurisdiction or authority; the episcopal system.

Governed by bishops; as, an episcopal church.

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Usage Examples

I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa.

My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism.

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