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    episcopal


    1. In the ancient constitution of the Christian church, the bishop of each diocese was elected by the joint votes of the clergy and of the people of the episcopal city


    2. The followers of Luther, together with what is called the church of England, preserved more or less of the episcopal government, established subordination among the clergy, gave the sovereign the disposal of all the bishoprics, and other consistorial benefices within his dominions, and thereby rendered him the real head of the church; and without depriving the bishop of the right of collating to the smaller benefices within his diocese, they, even to those benefices, not only admitted, but favoured the right of presentation, both in the sovereign and in all other lay patrons


    3. Episcopal Church in Richmond


    4. Our house is actually the lower half of what used to be the Episcopal Rectory


    5. the liturgy and the traditions of the Episcopal


    6. Tarazi found the Episcopal archives in Cuenca noted during the period 1584-1588 – the


    7. Bob Donovan, who was a Winslow friend of Bob near age 50, had just been ordained (by AZ’s Bishop, not a seminary) as an Episcopal priest, worked as our private investigator—often in his clerical garb


    8. grown up in a Virginia where the Episcopal Church was established, and was himself taught at one point by an Anglican cleric whose


    9. The old system of granting charters and Imperial episcopal protection and


    10. “congregational,” as opposed to episcopal, churches

    11. I will use primarily the work of Episcopal Bishop John Spong to illustrate at what point we have arrived at the beginning of the twenty-first century


    12. Jack Brown arrived in an extra coach that had been coupled onto the yellow train and that was silver-plated all over, with seats of episcopal velvet, and a roof of blue glass


    13. For example, Bowen’s minutes recorded the following encouragement given to the African-American leaders by the white bishop of the Episcopal Methodist denomination:


    14. This vision died in this Episcopal Methodist denomination and in the rest, as well


    15. The Congress on Africa demobilized more than just Episcopal Methodists


    16. Notice again what the white Episcopal Methodist bishop said to African Americans at the start of Bowen’s Congress on Africa (Italics added): “Determine that you will solve your own problem by being true to the estate to which you are called in these latter days


    17. Brown would couple his glass-topped coach with the episcopal lounging chairs and of the fruit trains with one hundred twenty cars which took a whole afternoon to pass by


    18. Two somber looking men in black suits placed the lid on the coffin in the center aisle of the All Saints Episcopal Church


    19. Both of the pilgrims here thought it a trace reminiscent of the fourteen Stations of the Cross in a Catholic or Episcopal church


    20. I cannot refrain from saying that a sacerdotal ministry, a mediatorial ministry, an infallible ministry, a ministry of men who by virtue of episcopal ordination have any monopoly of knowledge, or any special ability to settle disputed questions of faith or ritual such a ministry, in my judgment, is an innovation of man, and utterly without warrant of Holy Scripture

    21. Forgetful of her objections to German crowds and smoke she sat down in the chair vacated by Andrews, made the Professor sit down again in his, and plunged into an exuberant conversation, which began by an invitation so warm that it almost seemed on fire to visit herself and the bishop before the summer was over in the episcopal glories of Babbacombe


    22. Nobody was on the doorstep when she arrived beneath the great cedar that spread its shade, an intensified bit of dripping gloom where all was gloom and dripping, across from the lawn to the Palace's entrance, except the butler, whose black clothes struck her instantly as very neat and smooth, and his underling, a youth kept carefully a little on the side of a suitable episcopal shabbiness


    23. Curates might have convulsive moments that would worry souls blanched white by the keeping out of the light, souls like celery, no whiter than anybody else's if left properly to themselves, but blanched by a continual banking up round them of episcopal mould; and even a vicar might conceivably sometimes be headlong; while as for a German pastor


    24. Company was sending to Mars as Chaplain was an Episcopal priest so there


    25. " At the gallows and the wheel--the axe was a rarity--Monsieur Paris, as it was the episcopal mode among his brother Professors of the provinces, Monsieur Orleans, and the rest, to call him, presided in this dainty dress


    26. They had buried it for spite in the earth, under the episcopal seat of Monsignor


    27. Nearly four thousand mourners fill this century-old Episcopal church, watching as Thatcher praises her dear friend on videotape


    28. Messages of condolence and sympathy are being hourly received from all parts of the different continents and the sovereign pontiff has been graciously pleased to decree that a special missa pro defunctis shall be celebrated simultaneously by the ordinaries of each and every cathedral church of all the episcopal dioceses subject to the spiritual authority of the Holy See in suffrage of the souls of those faithful departed who have been so unexpectedly called away from our midst


    29. This uncontrollable priest, who had rejected his offer of the episcopal palace for a residence and preferred to hang his shabby hammock amongst the rubble and spiders of the sequestrated Dominican Convent, had taken into his head to advocate an unconditional pardon for Hernandez the Robber! And this was not enough; he seemed to have entered into communication with the most audacious criminal the country had known for years


    30. reciting from memory the Episcopal burial service which he had often read over slaves So he threw a quick apologetic glance at Carreen and, bowing his head again, began buried at Twelve Oaks

    31. And the congregation of the Episcopal Church almost fell out of their pews when he


    32. the boy to the Episcopal Church instead of the Catholic


    33. Cosmically speaking, then, what had he even been running from? As an acolyte at Tulsa’s First Episcopal Church, waiting for the moment to toll the consubstantiating bell, he’d thought of death as one of those revolving bookcases that led to secret corridors in comic books


    34. She was on her way home, in front of the All Saints’ Episcopal Church, only a few blocks from her house


    35. However that may be, after nine years of episcopal power and of residence in D——, all the stories and subjects of conversation which engross petty towns and petty people at the outset had fallen into profound oblivion


    36. Myriel was installed in the episcopal palace with the honors required by the Imperial decrees, which class a bishop immediately after a major-general


    37. The episcopal palace of D—— adjoins the hospital


    38. The episcopal palace was a huge and beautiful house, built of stone at the beginning of the last century by M


    39. As for the chance episcopal perquisites, the fees for marriage bans, dispensations, private baptisms, sermons, benedictions, of churches or chapels, marriages, etc


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

    41. He followed him, and exhibited himself to the eyes of the crowd in his purple camail and with his episcopal cross upon his neck, side by side with the criminal bound with cords


    42. In the chimney stood a pair of firedogs of iron, ornamented above with two garlanded vases, and flutings which had formerly been silvered with silver leaf, which was a sort of episcopal luxury; above the chimney-piece hung a crucifix of copper, with the silver worn off, fixed on a background of threadbare velvet in a wooden frame from which the gilding had fallen; near the glass door a large table with an inkstand, loaded with a confusion of papers and with huge volumes; before the table an arm-chair of straw; in front of the bed a prie-Dieu, borrowed from the oratory


    43. But what was to be done? There were no episcopal ornaments


    44. Every bishop who possesses the least influence has about him his patrol of cherubim from the seminary, which goes the round, and maintains good order in the episcopal palace, and mounts guard over monseigneur's smile


    45. men who understand the art of pleasing, of large parishes, prebends, archidiaconates, chaplaincies, and cathedral posts, while awaiting episcopal honors


    46. She was in high favor at the episcopal palace of Arras


    47. This spacious hall, illuminated by a single lamp, was the old hall of the episcopal palace, and served as the large hall of the palace of justice


    48. Oh, he himself had written a little book: The Problem of Sin on Other Worlds, ignored as somehow not serious enough by his Episcopal brethren


    49. She would not have permitted him to touch even her fingertips before the episcopal blessing, but he had not attempted to


    50. played shortly before, but "Autumn," which is found in the Episcopal hymnal and which fits appropriately the situation on the Titanic in the last moments of pain and darkness there










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    Synonyms for "episcopal"

    episcopal pontifical episcopalian

    "episcopal" definitions

    of or pertaining to or characteristic of the Episcopal church


    denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops