prelacy
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As the first settlers of Massachusetts, whether Puritan or Pilgrim, had fled away from prelacy, so their spiritual descendants still hated the name of bishop.
From The Siege of Boston by Allen French
See that objection of hearing prelatical men in the time of former prelacy, answered above, Period 4.
From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields
Something more was required to render that success permanent by arousing anew the trust and confidence of the people, and that something could not be supplied by a worldly and ambitious prelacy.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea
The western and eastern prelacy subscribed in compliance with their sovereign to the Arian creed, which, as Du Pin has shown, was signed by his infallibility, Pope Liberius.
From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 10. October, 1880 by Aaron Walker
His prelacy was revealed by the purple at his throat.
From London Days A Book of Reminiscences by Arthur Warren
My honour and my manly dignity are of greater value in my eyes than all your livings, prelacies, and mitres; and I am ready to defend my honour against every one, even against Dr. Ritter.
From John Ronge: The Holy Coat Of Treves New German-Catholic Chruch by Anonymous
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