Episcopacyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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• (英国発音) IPA: /ɪˈpɪskəpəsi/

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episcopacy (countable and uncountable, plural episcopacies)

1. The office of bishop and the governance of a church (a religious denomination) by bishops.

   Hyponyms: archiepiscopacy, monepiscopacy

   Coordinate terms: papacy, popedom, popeship, popehood

   Near-synonyms: bishopric, bishopry, bishopdom, bishopship, bishophood, archbishopric, archbishopry, archbishopdom, archbishopship, archbishophood

   • 2009, John Sadler, Glencoe, Amberley, published 2009, page 16:

     Further religious division occurred during the post-Restoration decades in the reign of Charles II, when strenuous and violent efforts were made by the Government to impose an episcopacy on the Scottish Church.

2. Bishops collectively: Synonym of episcopate.

   Hyponyms: archiepiscopacy, monepiscopacy

   Coordinate terms: papacy, popedom, popeship, popehood

   Near-synonyms: bishopric, bishopry, bishopdom, bishopship, archbishopric, archbishopry, archbishopdom, archbishopship

使用する際の注意点

Use as a capitalized proper noun ("the Episcopacy") refers to a specific episcopacy within the context of its particular church (where it is unique): usually and especially, the episcopacy of Anglicanism and Episcopalianism.

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