episcopate in English

noun
1
the office or term of office of a bishop.
If the episcopate * as an office * is the problem then what are we saying?
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1. One troubled person, Monsignor Ovidio Pérez Morales, secretary of the Roman Catholic Episcopate, in a recent admonitory message, stated: “We are living in an inundation of waste, of luxury and of collective foolishness. . . .

2. Clerical Celibacy is the discipline within the Catholic Church by which only unmarried men are ordained to the episcopate, to the priesthood (with individual exceptions) in some autonomous particular Churches, and similarly to the diaconate (with exceptions for certain categories of people)

3. It would seem as if the episode of the celebrated vase of Soissons were an incident of the campaign against Syagrius, and it proves that, although a pagan , Clovis continued his father's policy by remaining on amicable terms with Gaulish episcopate.

4. The Consecration of a bishop is the process during which a candidate for the episcopate receives the fullness of the grace of the priesthood through the Sacred Mystery of ordination by the laying of hands (in the Greek: χειροτονία, Cheirotonia) in succession from the Holy Apostles.The office of bishop is the highest clerical rank in the Orthodox Church.