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episcopate

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episcopate
1. the office, status, or term of office of a bishop
2. bishops collectively


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If a majority of bishops concur with the review committee's findings, Bishop Jefferts Schori will depose Bishop Schofield and declare the episcopate of the San Joaquin diocese vacant.
In their statement, the Anglican bishops said, "We note with approval that the Windsor Report calls for a moratorium on the ordination, election and consecration of any candidate to the Episcopate who is living in a same gender union, and the blessing of same sex unions.
[3] If kinship ties between the episcopate and the parish clergy were this strong, why would a parish priest in the 1850s pen a manifesto, in which he blamed the bishops for all but a few of the clergy's severe problems, stating that "the relationship between priest and bishop is exactly like that between Negro and plantation owner?
 
 
 
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