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episcopy|ɪˈpɪskəpɪ|
Also episcopé.
[ad. Gr. ἐπισκοπή watching over, f. ἐπί over + σκοπή watch.]
1. Survey; superintendence; spec. (in form episcopé) of pastoral government.
1641Milton Ch. Govt. ii. iii. (1851) 158 The censor in his morall episcopy. 1957Relations betw. Anglican & Presb. Churches 20 Among the functions of the ordained ministry..is..that of exercising oversight or ‘episcopé’. Apostolic mission and authority continue to be exercised through this ‘episcopé’, which includes pastoral care, the continuance of the ordained ministry through ordination, and the guardianship of truth and exclusion of error. 1963R. S. Louden True Face of Kirk iv. 39 In Presbytery..there has been gathered up this apostolic authority to ordain and induct—the oversight of the flock of God (Episcopé), regularly continued from Christian generation to generation, is corporately exercised and transmitted through Presbytery, in good church order.
†2. Government of the church by bishops. Obs.
1660Jer. Taylor Duct. Dubit. i. iv. §9 It was the universal doctrine of the Church of God for many ages..that episcopy is the divine, or apostolical institution.
3. concr. The body or bench of bishops. rare.
1874Dixon Two Queens III. xviii. iii. 337 A view supported by the English episcopy. |