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Episcopacy - Definition and Overview

Related Words: Archbishopric, Aristocracy, Bishopric, Chaplaincy, Consulate, Consulship, Curacy

Episcopacy is the regime of church government by bishops (Lat. episcopus), a form common to Roman Catholic, Orthodox and some Protestant churches, but opposed by those Protestants such as Calvinists, mainly on the grounds that it could not be justified from scripture.

Where episcopacy was the settled rule, or, for that matter, where it was not, doctrinal issues did not arise. It became an issue, however, in denominations where certain groups felt that the Reformation had not gone far enough, particularly in Anglicanism.

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Example Usage of Episcopacy

crosbhealai: @RuthieGledhill no harm Rowan putting it up to Rome re women- equally, he himself shd b more affirmative of Gene Robnsn's Episcopacy
iva_vkpz5: The divine right of Episcopacy demonstrated from Calvin and Beza... http://tinyurl.com/y9ohcol
keithmcilwain: @expatminister @umjeremy The Anglicans were embodied by their Episcopacy & liturgy; how'd that work out? Maybe the Articles unite us?
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