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Definition of Episcopates
1. episcopate [n] - See also: episcopate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Episcopates
Literary usage of Episcopates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The bishopric was one of the richest episcopates in Hungary during the fourteenth
century. A celebrated school offered facilities for theological studies as ..."
2. The Comparative Geography of Palestine and the Sinaitic Peninsula by Carl Ritter, William Leonard Gage (1866)
"... subjection of the whole neighbouring region, to have been a Christian population
long permitted to remain at IV. OTHER episcopates IN ARABIA PETR^EA ..."
3. Religion in England Under Queen Anne and the Georges, 1702-1800 by John Stoughton (1878)
"Berkeley was anxious for the establishment of episcopates in the American Colonies ;
and this circumstance brings before us a fact of great importance in ..."
4. A Study of Christianity as Organized: Its Ideas and Forms by John Adam Kern (1910)
"OTHER METHODIST episcopates. The episcopal idea has appeared, in similar forms
to those of British Methodism, in Canada, the United States, and Japan. ..."
5. Memoirs of a West-India Planter by John Riland (1827)
"—Oh that the mantle of Reginald Heber might descend upon his surviving brethren
in the insular episcopates ! XII.—fage 116. This is Mr. Stephen's account, ..."
6. The Ancient Cathedral of Cornwall Historically Surveyed by John Whitaker (1804)
"WHEN Edward thus united the episcopates of Cornwall and Devon- together, he
resigned up the Cornish, " witli all the parishes, "lands, manors, goods, ..."
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