Episcopacy

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ɪˈpɪskÉ™pÉ™si/

Origin

From Late Latin episcopātus.

Full definition of episcopacy

Noun

1. Government of the church by bishops.
• 2009, John Sadler, Glencoe, Amberley 2009, p. 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; episcopate.