Episcopy

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Supervision; superintendence. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "There are most weighty reasons why the Church ought to lay aside episcopacy, and return to the apostolical institution of presbyters"

  2. 2
    Episcopacy. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "It was the universal doctrine of the Church of God for many ages , even for fourteen Centuries of years , that Episcopy is […]Divine […]"

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"There are most weighty reasons why the Church ought to lay aside episcopacy, and return to the apostolical institution of presbyters"

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἐπισκοπή (episkopḗ), from ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, “overseer, bishop”). See bishop. First attested in 1642 in John Milton’s The Reason of Church-Government Urged against Prelaty.

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