prelacy

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But there was strife between Covenanters and the adherents of Episcopacy until, prelacy itself being abolished in 1689, the bishopric of Moray came to an end after an existence of 581 years.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various

Since these in part refused to submit voluntarily and attempted to assert their traditional independence, the pontificate of Gregory is crowded with struggles against the higher ranks of the prelacy.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various

Marprelate, m�r-prel′āt, adj. pertaining to the series of vigorous pamphlets against prelacy issued in England in 1588-9, in spite of severe repression.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

This confraternity embraces the flower of the Roman prelacy, the patrician order and the priesthood.”

From Pius IX. And His Time by Dawson, Æneas MacDonell

The Quaker, therefore, soon participated in the persecutions which prelacy thought due to liberal christianity.

From Calvert and Penn Or the Growth of Civil and Religious Liberty in America, as Disclosed in the Planting of Maryland and Pennsylvania by Mayer, Brantz