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Episcopal
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Episcopal in principle means "of Bishops", from the latin for bishop, episcopus, and the ancient Greek επίσκοπος.
It may therefore refer to:
- Anything pertaining to Bishops, e.g. An Episcopal Conference in the Catholic Church
- An Episcopal Church, an alternative term for a church of the Anglican Communion, since Anglican churches are based on the concept of church governance by the bishops collectively (as an "Episcopal polity"). The term Episcopal is in several churches considered preferable to the term Anglican, which originates in ecclesia anglicana, a Medieval Latin phrase dating to at least 1246 meaning "the English Church".[1] Some feel that this might imply that there is an English ecclesiastical superority, which is not correct. A member of an Episcopal church is an Episcopalian.
- A number of minor churches which broke with the Anglican Communion use the title Episcopal Church in reference to their preservation of episcopal governance.
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