Episcopalian
adjective
pertaining or adhering to the Episcopal Church in America.
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episcopalianadjectivepractising or advocating the principle of Church government by bishops
Episcopalian
American
[ih-pis-kuh-payl-yuhn, -pay-lee-uhn]
/ ɪˌpɪs kəˈpeɪl jən, -ˈpeɪ li ən /
Episcopalian
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British
/ ɪˌpɪskəˈpeɪlɪən /
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episcopalian
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/ ɪˌpɪskəˈpeɪlɪən /
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Episcopalianismnoun
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episcopalianismnoun
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non-Episcopaliannoun
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nonepiscopalianadjective
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pseudo-Episcopalianadjective
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Origin of Episcopalian
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Three days after the Sept. 11 attacks, I walked into my office at an Episcopalian refugee resettlement organization in New Haven, Conn. There sat five females colleagues with their heads covered in hijabs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
A devoted Episcopalian, Dr. Goodenough kept a tapestry of the Last Supper on the wall of his laboratory.
From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2023
My dad is an actor and an Episcopalian priest, so we talked more about nuns and religion in preparation for this part.
From Salon ● May 2, 2023
I told Garrick that I had reviewed every invocation since the beginning of 2022 — a parade of Catholic deacons, Episcopalian priests, rabbis, evangelical Christians, an imam, a Methodist and others.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2023
“How about the Littles in the Episcopalian Mission?”
From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz
Had you been there, as it was your duty to have been, we should have taken an episcopalian field officer.
From Tales from the German. Volume II. The Lichtensteins, The Sorceress, The Anabaptist by Carl Franz van der Velde
Thus it chanced that Daisy, the spinster, found herself in Mrs Pansey's carriage on her way to the episcopalian reception, extremely well pleased with herself, her dress, her position, and her social guardian angel.
From The Bishop's Secret by Fergus Hume
Lord Stanley recommended the appointment of a commission of enquiry, which was accordingly confided to three episcopalian laymen, who acquitted the schools of most of the imputations of their former visitors.
From The History of Tasmania, Volume I by John West
It may be surmised how far Lord Auchinleck, such as he is here described, was likely to suit a high Tory and episcopalian like Johnson.
From Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) by James Boswell
She was looking as beautiful as only the younger sister of a High Church episcopalian rector can look, dressed in white, the colour of saintliness, on a beautiful morning in July.
From Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich by Stephen Leacock
The mainline is a collection of long-established Protestant denominations: the Episcopalians, United Methodists, Presbyterians and so on.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
This “dechurching,” as they call it, is apparent in most denominations, reducing the numbers of Presbyterians and Episcopalians and also of evangelicals like Southern Baptists.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 27, 2023
In 2021, membership stood at 1.52 million, a drop of 20% over the previous 10 years, and 42% from the 3.5 million Americans who self-identified as Episcopalians in 2001.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 14, 2023
American Episcopalians underscored this departure from convention in 2015 by permitting same-sex marriages.
From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2022
The southern Episcopalians were divided on the paramount political questions, but in New York the religious and political parties coincided.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton
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