episcopal

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What an incredible controversy, that an episcopal bishop should be calling on us to have mercy and to love one another.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2025

O’Connell became an auxiliary bishop and episcopal vicar for the archdiocese’s San Gabriel region in 2015.

From Washington Post • Feb. 19, 2023

At 54, he was two decades shy of the normal retirement age for bishops, and he never held an episcopal appointment after that.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 1, 2022

Catholic priests leave the church after the episcopal ordination of Bishop Stephen Chow in Hong Kong, China December 4, 2021.

From Reuters • Dec. 30, 2021

Later on Mr. Jack Brown arrived in an extra coach that had been coupled onto the yellow train and that was silverplated all over, with seats of episcopal velvet, and a roof of blue glass.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez