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Definition: Episcopal |
EpiscopalAdjective1. (religion) of or pertaining to or characteristic of the Episcopal church; "the Episcopal hierarachy"; "married by an Episcopalian minister". 2. Denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Episcopal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1644. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
This article is about the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. This name is also used by the Scottish Episcopal Church and other members of the Anglican Communion.
The Episcopal Church or the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America is the American Church of the Anglican Communion. It includes dioceses in the United States, the US Virgin Islands, Haiti, Taiwan, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and Honduras, and has an extra-provincial relationship with the dioceses of Puerto Rico and Venezuela. It is sometimes known as the Episcopal Church in the USA, abbreviated ECUSA.
The Episcopal Church was founded in the late 18th Century after the American colonies proclaimed independence from Great Britain. Prior to the American Revolutionary War, the Episcopal Church was part of the Church of England, whose clergy are required to accept the supremacy of the British monarch. When the clergy of Connecticut elected Samuel Seabury as their bishop, he sought consecration in England. The oath of supremacy proved too difficult a problem, however, and he came to Scotland, where the Scottish bishops (at the time being persecuted by the state) consecrated him in Aberdeen on November 14, 1784, the first Anglican bishop outside the British Isles.
The American bishops thus descend in the Apostolic succession from the bishops of Scotland, and to this day the nine crosses which symbolise the nine provinces in the arms of the American Episcopal Church form a St Andrew's cross, commemorating the Scottish link. In Scotland, the Episcopal Church is so known because unlike the national state Church of Scotland (which is Presbyterian, i.e. governed by Elders), it is governed by bishops (in Latin episcopi). The word "Anglican" comes from the Latin word Anglicana which literally means English.
Other than the name difference the national churches are roughly the same, however the different groups (i.e. High Church, Broad Church, & Low Church) within the national branches of the Church may be proportionally different in numbers. Like many other Anglican churches, it has entered into a full communion relationship with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
In the United States the Church has a membership of approximately 3 million, and has had such noteable members as more than a quarter of all presidents of the United States and Supreme Court chief justices as well as roughly half of the members of Congress and Supreme Court associate justices.
The full incorporated name of the denomination in the United States is "The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America," but this name is not used to refer to the church as an ecclesiastical whole.
In 2003, the Church was embroiled in a controversy over the confimation of its first openly homosexual bishop, the Rev. Canon Gene Robinson. This controversy is threatening to tear the Episcopal Church apart.
External link
- http://www.episcopalchurch.org/ (official page)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "The Episcopal Church."
Synonym: EpiscopalSynonym: Episcopalian (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Churchdom | Adjective: ecclesiastical, ecclesiological; clerical, sacerdotal, priestly, prelatical, pastoral, ministerial, capitular, theocratic; hierarchical, archiepiscopal; episcopal, episcopalian; canonical; monastic, monachal; monkish; abbatial, abbatical; Anglican; pontifical, papal, apostolic, Roman, Popish; ultramontane, priest-ridden. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Episcopal |
| English words defined with "Episcopal": Apostolic prefect, Apostolic vicar, Autocephalous ♦ Bishoply ♦ Chorepiscopus, Church of England, Church of Rome, churchwarden, Common prayer ♦ English church, Episcopalian, Episcopally, Episcoparian ♦ Gloria ♦ Harvest-home ♦ Kyrie eleison ♦ Non-Episcopal ♦ Pan-Anglican, primus ♦ Roman Catholic, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Church ♦ Tersanctus ♦ Unbishop ♦ Vartabed, vestry, vicar, Vicar apostolic, Vicar forane ♦ Western Church. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Episcopal": Episcoparian. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Episcopal" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (episcopal), Romanian (episcopal), Spanish (Episcopal). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | St. Paul's Episcopal Church (Pittsburgh, Pa.). Wrought iron counterbalancing device for lifting baptismal font cover. Side elevation. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, revised design for w.i. bracket and counterbalance / The Iron-Craftsmen, art metal work, 12 S. Orianna St., Phila. 6, Pe. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | St. Thomas Episcopal Church, 18th St. and Church St., N.W., Washington, D.C.] / p. Credit: Library of Congress; photo by Wm. Edmund Barrett.. |  | Protestant Episcopal Bishop and clergy. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Sharpsburg, Md. View with Episcopal church in distance. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Episcopal Church, Magnolia, Mass. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Cleveland, O[hio]. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Eskimo Methodist Episcopal Church. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Episcopal Station on the Koyukuk River, the farthest north mission in Alaska. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Old Episcopal private church, now closed. Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Alice's Grave" by Brian Corll Commentary: "Grave of Alice Flagg at All Saints Waccamaw Episcopal Church cemetery, Pawleys Island, SC." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | there was no episcopal furniture |
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Civil Liberties | Zambia | The Zambia Episcopal Conference, the Christian Council of Zambia, and the Evangelical Fellowship of Zambia were criticized by individuals, including some members of the Government, for publicly opposing efforts to amend the Constitution to enable the President to seek a third term of office. (references) |
Economic History | Namibia | While most Namibian Christians are Lutheran, there also are Roman Catholic, Methodist, Anglican, African Methodist Episcopal, and Dutch Reformed Christians represented. (references) |
Human Rights | Mexico | On September 9, Rodrigo Aguilar Martinez, the President of the Episcopal Commission for the Family of the Roman Catholic Church, told the press that public health institutions "frequently" performed sterilizations in marginalized communities, especially indigenous areas. (references) |
Political Economy | Sudan | There is a longstanding dispute between the Episcopal Church and the Government. (references) |
Sudan | In December 1999, police injured five persons in a clash in northwest Khartoum over an Episcopal Church school. (references) | |
Sudan | The leaders of the Episcopal Church and the Sudanese Council of Churches responded by sending a joint protest letter to the Government calling for the investigation of unfair treatment of Christians. (references) | |
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| "Episcopal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 92.83% of the time. "Episcopal" is used about 251 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 92.83% | 233 | 19,663 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.17% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Total | 100.00% | 251 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Episcopal": episcopal Church ♦ episcopal seat ♦ protestant Episcopal Church. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "Episcopal": ex-episcopal, Non-Episcopal, quasi-episcopal. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "Episcopal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | peshkopal (pontifical), i peshkopit. (various references) | |
Arabic | خاص بالكنيسة الأسقفية, أسقفي (bishopric, pontifical). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | владишки (pontifical), епископски (episcopalian, pontifical). (various references) | |
Chinese | 主教 (Bishop, Diocesan, Episcopalian, miter, miters, mitre). (various references) | |
Czech | episkopální, biskupský. (various references) | |
Dutch | doorluchtig. (various references) | |
Esperanto | episkopa. (various references) | |
Farsi | مربوطبه کلیسای اسقفی درمسیحیت . (various references) | |
Finnish | piispallinen. (various references) | |
French | pontifical, épiscopal. (various references) | |
Frisian | biskoplik. (various references) | |
German | bischöflich. (various references) | |
Greek | επισκοπικόσ, επισκοπικός. (various references) | |
Hebrew | הגמוני. (various references) | |
Hungarian | püspöki (cathedral, episcopate, pontifical). (various references) | |
Italian | episcopale. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 聖公会 (Anglican or Episcopal Church), 司教権座 (the episcopal seat). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しきょうけんざ (the episcopal seat), せいこうかい (Anglican or Episcopal Church). (various references) | |
Manx | aspickagh (bishop, diocesan, episcopalian). (various references) | |
Papiamen | episkopal. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | episcopalay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | episcopal. (various references) | |
Romanian | episcopal, de episcop. (various references) | |
Russian | епископский (pontiffical), епископальный (episcopalian, pontifical). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | episkopalni. (various references) | |
Spanish | episcopal. (various references) | |
Swedish | episkopal (episcopalian). (various references) | |
Turkish | piskoposlarca yönetilen, piskoposlar ile ilgili. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | єпископський (pontifical), єпископальний (pontifical). (various references) | |
Welsh | esgobol (episcopalian). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | episcopalis, episcopatum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Episcopal": episcopally. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "Episcopal": archiepiscopal. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Episcopal": archiepiscopally. (additional references) | |
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"Episcopal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Eiskanal, episcopally, Episcopum, episomal, Episopi, epistomal, Picpoul. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Episcopal" (pronounced i'pi"skupul) |
| 4 | -u p u l | subprincipal, multiple, municipal, oedipal, principal, principle. |
| 3 | -p u l | ample, Appel, apple, archetypal, businesspeople, carpal, chapel, congresspeople, couple, craftspeople, cripple, crumple, decouple, dimple, disciple, example, fipple, gospel, grapple, hopple, spokespeople, staple, steeple, supple, temple, laypeople, maple, metacarpal, newspeople, nipple, opal, papal, people, pimple, pineapple, Popple, pupil, purple, quadruple, quintuple, ripple, rumple, salespeople, sample, scalpel, scruple, Semple, simple, tipple, topple, townspeople, trample, triple, uncouple. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-l-o-p-p-s" | |
-1 letter: popsicle. | |
-2 letters: applies, celosia, escalop, plaices, polices, special. | |
-3 letters: apices, appels, apples, appose, aslope, colies, copals, copies, epical, espial, lipase, peplos, pilose, pipals, places, plaice, plicae, poleis, police, polies, popsie, social, solace, spicae, splice. | |
-4 letters: aisle, alecs, aloes, appel, apple, aspic, calos, capes, capos, ceils, claps, clasp, clips, clops, close, coals, coils, colas, coles. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-l-o-p-p-s" | |
+1 letter: scaloppine. | |
+2 letters: episcopally, polariscope, scaloppines. | |
+3 letters: pilocarpines, polariscopes. | |
+4 letters: cephalosporin, laparoscopies, preceptorials, psephological. | |
+5 letters: archiepiscopal, cephalosporins, papilionaceous, peptidoglycans, prosencephalic, reapplications. | |
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