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Definition of Episcopal

Episcopal

  1. Governed by bishops; as, an episcopal church.
  2. Belonging to, or vested in, bishops; as, episcopal jurisdiction or authority; the episcopal system.

Episcopal Quotations

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
Lyndon B. Johnson

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.
Marilyn Manson

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.
Henry Louis Gates

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.
Henry Louis Gates

My sense is if the Episcopal Church can't stand challenge within its own ranks, then it is not a church I would want to be a member of anyway.
John Shelby Spong
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Episcopal Translations

episcopal in Dutch is bisschoppelijk, doorluchtig
episcopal in French is pontifical
episcopal in Italian is episcopale
episcopal in Latin is episcopalis
episcopal in Spanish is episcopal
episcopal in Swedish is episkopal

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