episcopalian
IPA: ɪpɪskʌpˈeɪɫiʌn
noun
- Episcopalian
- An adherent of an Anglican church, especially the Scottish Episcopal Church, the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, or the Anglican churches in the Philippines, western Asia, South Sudan, the Horn of Africa, and most of north Africa.
- (now uncommon) Alternative letter-case form of episcopalian. [Episcopalian]
adjective
- episcopal, pertaining to a bishop of any church
- Episcopalian
- (somewhat nonstandard) Of or relating to Anglicanism or an Anglican church, especially the Scottish Episcopal Church, the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, or the Anglican churches in the Philippines, western Asia, South Sudan, the Horn of Africa, and most of north Africa.
- (now uncommon) Alternative letter-case form of episcopalian. [episcopal, pertaining to a bishop of any church]
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Examples of "episcopalian" in Sentences
- Papists are certainly episcopalian.
- He attended the episcopalian church.
- Episcopalian priest is the proper form.
- Maybe I'm not an ex Episcopalian agnostic.
- By and large the family has been Episcopalian.
- It remained theologically orthodox and episcopalian.
- He is an ordained priest of the Episcopalian tradition.
- She was confirmed in the spring of 2008 as an Episcopalian.
- I believe Episcopalians also believe in the efficacy of the Sacraments.
- But to say that Episcopalian and episcopal are interchangeable is absurd.
- I've also never heard anyone claim that an episcopalian or presbyterian was a deist.
- Do we judge christians by pentecostal standards? or high church episcopalian standards.
- I know how much little Cheeseburgs means to me, so I can only imagine how happy a devout and dog-centric episcopalian would be about this news.
- This dogma is reinforced boldly over at the NCSE where they have managed to coopt the services of Josephine Borgeson, an ordained episcopalian minister.
- I have never heard anyone ever claim that the episcopalian anglican, congregationalists, presbyterian, and quakers of the revolutionary era were evangelicals.
- "Church" in that context means the broader sense of the term: "the Catholic church" or "the episcopalian church," not "the church at the corner of fifth and main."
- Here's the story: the Church of the Holy Trinity, episcopalian and located on Manhattan's Upper East Side (88th between 1st and 2nd Ave), welcomes, nay, encourages members to bring their dogs.
- Many episcopalian bishops can't pull this off in their pink shirts; on this score Jelinek, who seems to wear clerical less often than many seems more humble; he has also been more willing to talk to me when I've been around Seabury.
- Not that I'd take personal offense, but that I'd be outraged and horrified that Grisham would insist that the name "episcopalian" would now apply only to a church that has so clearly repudiated the some of the most fundamental biblical tenets.
- Now, I don't know if this is common, or if this is an episcopalian thing (because, to be honest, I'm not even sure what sort of Christianity episcopalian is), but I'm a lot more excited about this than I am about the chapel being Cheeseburger-friendly.
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