Similar words: episcopal, episcopate, copacetic, periscope, francisco pizarro, papacy, epistle, sheepish. Meaning: [ɪ'pɪskəpəsɪ] 
n. the collective body of bishops.
n. the collective body of bishops. 
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1) If you have this developing episcopacy, that's just the Greek sort of sounding word for bishop or bishopric or something like that.
2) Since the poem's initial appearance, the institution of episcopacy, or church hierarchy, has been seriously eroded.
3) They are minded , also, to establish the idolatrous forms of English Episcopacy.
4) By 1612, James had succeeded in carrying out the first part of his policy, the re-establishment of diocesan episcopacy.
5) This thesis, in the context of the reform of the episcopacy at the Council of Trent, explores some of the problems the Roman Catholic Church had to encountered.
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