Episcopal Church
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- proper noun
- /ɪˈpɪs.kə.pəl tʃɜːrtʃ/
- US
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Iglesia Episcopal (Estados Unidos)
- St. Mark's Episcopal Church has services in both Spanish and English.
- Methodist Episcopal Church
- African Methodist Episcopal Church
- St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Examples
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St. Mark's Episcopal Church was founded eight years later, with its sanctuary close to the Towers.
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Meanwhile, the highest bishop in the American Episcopal Church is herself a woman.
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John is the current Senior Warden of St. James Episcopal Church in Lincoln, California.
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While some leaders have expressed a desire to leave The Episcopal Church, the Diocese has not left.
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Once again, we see the Episcopal Church's denial of the reality facing the church.
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St. Martha and Mary is much more friendly, much warmer than Nativity Episcopal Church.
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Sunday morning: POTUS and family are attending mass at St. John's Episcopal Church at Lafayette Square in Washington, DC.
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The current rector of downtown Atlanta's St. Luke's Episcopal Church was then leading a congregation in Kingsport, Tenn.
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The newly elected presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States is a woman.
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Zander addressed the issue of substance at a recent Episcopal Church evangelism workshop near Baltimore.
Synonyms
A Christian church in the United States that comes from the Church of England
How Self-Governing
Surface Forms
Morphology
A learner who knows 'episcopal' (relating to bishops) and 'church' can reasonably infer this refers to a church governed by bishops, so part of the meaning is compositional. However, the MWE's full denotation as the specific American Anglican denomination in communion with the Church of England is a culturally and institutionally specific identification that is not fully predictable from the parts alone.
Etymology
Episcopal Church in the United States gets its name from episcopal, a word from Greek meaning 'overseer' or 'bishop'. Because it is the Anglican church in the US and is led by bishops while staying connected to the Church of England, people call it the 'Episcopal Church'.