Examples of episcopate

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The episcopate, too, was usually tolerant of such failings.
Yet the early decades of the seventeenth century saw a concerted effort by the episcopate to bring religious order to dioceses.
From the very start of his episcopate, the cathedral priory showed themselves eager to please their new bishop.
Brief soundings illustrate the relative radicalism of the episcopate's plans.
Historians who confront a diocese and attempt to interpret what was happening within it during any particular episcopate face a number of ' hidden agendas ' within the surviving records.
Charity was, therefore, the fundamental bedrock of the episcopal vocation because without it, a bishop could not possess the other virtues essential to the episcopate, namely, humility, zeal and piety.
Her chapter on his episcopate, based on a thorough acquaintance with both the original records and the secondary literature, is easily the most comprehensive and illuminating to date.
At the same time, the commission of the general assembly, established in 1597 as the ecclesiastical equivalent of the privy council, was being gradually superseded by the episcopate.
By late 1928, moreover, the episcopate admitted that persecution had continued 'for much longer than we would have believed', and offered an express route to salvation.
But they were under no illusions that the real obstacles to the implementation of the gospel were their ' papistical ' enemies in the episcopate and among the higher clergy.
On this question of giving power to the episcopate, one of the most notable examples is patronage.
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