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episcopal

/ih-pis-kuh-puhl/US // ɪˈpɪs kə pəl //UK // (ɪˈpɪskəpəl) //

圣公会,主教,主教区,主教席

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to a bishop: episcopal authority.
    • : based on or recognizing a governing order of bishops: an episcopal hierarchy.
    • : designating the Anglican Church or some branch of it, as the Episcopal Church in America.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Informal. an Episcopalian.

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Examples

  • He retired in 2013 as the IX Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire.

  • I am a Bishop of The Episcopal Church, having served as the Bishop of New Hampshire for a decade, before retiring in January 2013.

  • Debra, a New York-based lawyer who grew up in the Episcopal Church, said the practice has never bothered her.

  • Before each football season, Parish Episcopal players are required to take a reaction-time test designed for this exact purpose.

  • A Polish Jew in an Episcopal graveyard in a largely Dominican neighborhood—what could be more New York or even more Ed Koch?

  • It would be a misfortune if the impression were created that preferment to the episcopal bench was confined to High Churchmen.

  • Many episcopal visitations took place during the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries.

  • We content ourselves with full episcopal power as suffragans.'

  • A curious episcopal ring worn by St. Arnulf, bishop of Metz, in the sixth century, exhibits the well-known ichthyic symbol.

  • At other places, exasperated at the chiefs of the episcopal party, the communiers were demolishing their fortified houses.