Episcopal
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"For first, as I have already observed, it would greatly lessen the number of Papists, with whom we are yearly over-run, being the principal breeders of the nation, as well as our most dangerous enemies, and who stay at home on purpose with a design to deliver the kingdom to the Pretender, hoping to take their advantage by the absence of so many good Protestants, who have chosen rather to leave their country, than stay at home and pay tithes against their conscience to an episcopal curate." --"A Modest Proposal", Jonathan Swift |
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Episcopal may refer to:
- Bishop, an overseer in the Christian church
- Episcopate, the see of a bishop – a diocese
- Episcopal Church (disambiguation), any church with "Episcopal" in its name
- Episcopal Church (United States), an affiliate of Anglicanism based in the United States
- Episcopal conference, an official assembly of bishops in a territory of the Roman Catholic Church
- Episcopal polity, the church united under the oversight of bishops
- Episcopal see, the official seat of a bishop, often applied to the area over which he exercises authority
- Historical episcopate, dioceses established according to apostolic succession
- Of, or relating to, the Anglican church
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