historic episcopate

British  

noun

1. Christian Church the derivation of the episcopate of a Church in historic succession from the apostles

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Example Sentences

For by such association we should bring into clearer prominence the fact that the historic episcopate is more than a national institution.

From The War and Unity Being Lectures Delivered At The Local Lectures Summer Meeting Of The University Of Cambridge, 1918 by Cranage, D. H. S. (David Herbert Somerset)

Nor did the "historic episcopate" present any obstacle to intercommunion.

From A History of the English Church in New Zealand by Purchas, H. T. (Henry Thomas)

So the Church holds to the four universal things—the authority of Holy Scripture; the Creeds; the two Sacraments, and the historic episcopate.

From The War and Unity Being Lectures Delivered At The Local Lectures Summer Meeting Of The University Of Cambridge, 1918 by Cranage, D. H. S. (David Herbert Somerset)