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What does episcopate mean?

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Noun
  1. Bishops seen as a group.
  2. The tenure in office of a bishop.
  3. (rare) A bishop's jurisdiction, the extent of his diocese.
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It is a commonplace to associate the low view of the episcopate not only with latitudinarians, but also with nineteenth-century evangelicals.
In the end, the episcopate came to the United States through the nonjuring bishops of the Episcopal Church in Scotland.
In its place is the miter, the representation par excellence of the episcopate.
Does the historic episcopate include the priesthood and diaconate, which are not mentioned in the Quadrilateral?
By his death, Theodore had built up the episcopate and created an organized, united church under Canterbury.
The creation of the episcopate, on the contrary, was the work of the second century.

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