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-peyl-yuhn, -pey-lee-uhn]
/ ɪˌpɪs kəˈpeɪl jən, -ˈpeɪ li ən /
Episcopalian
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/ 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
Example Sentences
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He used to present as a staid mainline Episcopalian, but now he denounces that church and speaks of being “mauled by demons.”
From Salon ● May 19, 2025
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
A 200-year-old Episcopal seminary in Virginia has thrown a financial lifeline to a struggling Episcopalian school in New York City — in part to head off a looming, critical shortage of clergy in the denomination.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 14, 2023
Dr. Evans, an Episcopalian, often spoke of feeling called by God to care for children.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2022
I'm not even Jewish, technically, because Judaism is matrilineal, and my mom's Episcopalian.
From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli
Now I'll tell my father, get his episcopalian benediction, and wire the news to Lucy and the mater.
From The Bishop's Secret by Fergus Hume
His father, Alexander Arbuthnot, was an episcopalian minister who was deprived of his living in 1689 by his patron, Viscount Arbuthnott, for refusing to conform to the Presbyterian system.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various
The bishop suffered even more than I did; he walked up and down on the sheltered side of the house wrapped in a huge episcopalian cloak.
From The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses by James Anthony Froude
The denominations selected to supply religious teaching were the episcopalian, wesleyan, and Roman catholic.
From The History of Tasmania , Volume II by John West
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
By the second decade of the 21st century, Presbyterians, Lutherans and Episcopalians had largely dismantled their bans.
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2024
Mr. Harris started volunteering 15 years ago at the front desk of St. David’s Medical Center, an Austin hospital founded by Episcopalians.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 21, 2023
For years, stories have appeared in media outlets about how many of the more theologically moderate denominations like Episcopalians and the United Church of Christ have suffered staggering losses in membership.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2021
Some of them were Episcopalians, some Presbyterians, some Baptists, some Independents.
From Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by John Charles Ryle
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