episcopally

[i-pis-kuh-puh-lee]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adverb

in a way that relates to or characterizes bishops or recognizes a governing order of bishops.

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The clergy refuse to be episcopally ordained, and they will continue to preach, and hence the trouble.

Ministers were obliged to produce their orders to him, and show that they had been episcopally ordained.

It had been used, says Strype, by the French Protestants, who had a French minister, episcopally ordained.

Ah! what, though every nerve I've strained To see the dancers' battle gained, Leaves me episcopally chained?

The idea of the one episcopally organised Church became the main one and overshadowed the significance of the doctrine of faith as a bond of unity.

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