prelacy in English

noun
1
the government of the Christian Church by clerics of high social rank and power.
It appears as if the most extreme of anti-episcopal theologies is now wedded to an American ecclesial body distinctive precisely through its commitment to ‘ prelacy .’
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1. Synonyms for Bishoprics include dioceses, episcopacies, episcopates, sees, primacy, archdioceses, archBishoprics, districts, benefices and prelacy

2. There are also several similar words to Canonry in our dictionary, which are Clerics, Conclave, Diaconate, Ecclesiastics, Priesthood, Prelacy, The Cloth, First Estate, Cardinalate, Pastorate, Rabbinate, Canonicate, Deaconry and Holy Order

3. The one alloweth of ruling elders under and infidel magistrate, but not under a Christian magistrate.—The other alloweth of them under a Christian magistrate, but not under an infidel.—That ruling elders do not prejudge the power of the civil magistrate, but the Prelacy doth, which Confuteth Whitgift.—That Christian magistrates are not

4. The last bishop of this see, prior to its union with that of Cashel, to which the Archbishoprick had been previously transferred, was Reymund de Burgh, after whose death, in 1562, it remained vacant till 1568, when it was united by act of parliament to the Archbishoprick of Cashel, during the prelacy of Archbishop Mac Caghwell.