Sentence examples for episcopal from inspiring English sources
adjective
Of or relating to the affairs of a bishop in various Christian churches.
In Manhattan, St George's church has subtly purged the word "Episcopal" from its printed programme after more than 250 years of Episcopal services.
She is now requesting classified documents from the episcopal and Vatican archives, which would shed more light on the issues.
Although its ostensible purpose was to mend personal fences with Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions minister, the episcopal posting acknowledged the need for a massive overhaul of the benefits system, in language that showed no respect for the canons of the centre-left.
A woman could be wearing episcopal purple by next year.This was a big, but expected, landmark.
A "burgeoning Orthodox intelligentsia" is challenging both the church hierarchy and by extension the Putin regime, in her view.Had Ms Kizenko's commentary been published only a few weeks earlier, it might well also have mentioned Father Pavel Adelheim, a dissident priest and ex-prisoner who incurred the ire of his episcopal masters by criticising the administration of his church.
Jewish and Islamic doctrine forbids or severely restricts the use of images in worship, but Christian episcopal authorities have shown more enthusiasm than horror, as have sectarians of other religions.
"The safeguarding of minors in his diocesan community is a sacred duty of every bishop," says Bishop Scicluna, and episcopal negligence is a crime under canon law.
She is a steadfast member of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, a radical denomination which became known as "the Freedom Church" during the pre-civil war campaign to abolish slavery.
At one end of the spectrum, the Episcopal church in America has consecrated an openly lesbian bishop; at the other end, African bishops have supported harsh anti-gay laws.
For generations, the Episcopal Anglicann) church has been the steward of traditional music in America and so the main employer of talented organists.
At first glance the cemetery looks like a little country graveyard nestled behind the rustic St Matthew's Episcopal Church.
