Examples of episcopacy

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The driving forces behind works on episcopacy during this period were, not surprisingly, prelates themselves.
His writings upon episcopacy were, almost without exception, produced in this later period.
Episcopacy is firmly associated with monarchical despotism, corruption, erastianism and foreignness.
All of the texts which he produced on episcopacy bear witness to the tensions between bishops and religious during his career.
The author asks how the bishops and others understood their position doctrinally and how models of episcopacy were modified by religious change.
At the same time his turn to episcopacy went together with a pronounced anglophobia.
The attempt to narrate the history of episcopacy was central to the business of defining the governance of the church.
The most dramatic change in the places used for episcopal burials occurred in the mid-seventeenth century with the abolition of episcopacy.
Yet the failure to discuss the theology of this distinction meant that an area of episcopacy which had long been a source of theological and canonical reflection remained unresolved.
Add to this the developed, monarchical episcopacy to which the letters allegedly testify, and he arrives at a late second-century date (pp. 203-5).
The whole theory of episcopacy is that you work through your clergy, your incumbents and chaplains.
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