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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
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
Her father, Robert, was an Episcopalian minster who lost his hearing when we was struck by lightning at age 4.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2022
“How about the Littles in the Episcopalian Mission?”
From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz
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 Hume, Fergus
Indeed, had the election of such a prelate been in the hands of his admirers, he would have been elevated that very moment to the nearest vacant episcopalian throne.
From The Bishop's Secret by Hume, Fergus
I think the line of my grandmother was stoutly episcopalian and Jacobite; but, coming outside the western highlands, the first at least was soon rubbed down.
From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 by Morley, John
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 West, John
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 Boswell, James
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
American Episcopalians underscored this departure from convention in 2015 by permitting same-sex marriages.
From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2022
The formerly mighty mainline Protestant denominations, like the Episcopalians and Methodists, have shrunk and lost influence.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2021
Once commonly referred to as “born-again” Christians — in contrast to mainline Protestants such as Presbyterians, Episcopalians and Lutherans — evangelicals have, in recent decades, become increasingly influential in American religion, culture and politics.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 22, 2021
They only served to develop the powers of Parliament and to bring the Episcopalians and nonconformists more closely together.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.
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