How to Use episcopal in a Sentence

episcopal

1 of 2 adjective
  • Pilla would apologize, but the scandal would be the most painful time of his episcopal ministry.
    David Briggs, cleveland, 21 Sep. 2021
  • What the report shows is a pattern of episcopal behavior akin to a scaffold of their own making.
    C.c. Pecknold, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2018
  • Whitehead got out of the car, wearing a Fendi blazer and a large episcopal ruby ring.
    Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2023
  • Our United Methodist faculty, staff and students welcome her role as their episcopal leader.
    Danika Worthington, The Denver Post, 28 Apr. 2017
  • The Canons of The Episcopal Church require that any and all church conduct proceedings remain confidential for the sake of fairness and healing.
    Tim Funk, charlotteobserver, 14 May 2017
  • These prohibitions weren’t very effective; a thousand years later, astrologers were active at the papal and episcopal courts, and within the entourages of numerous Christian rulers.
    Andrew Cockburn, Harper’s Magazine , 6 Jan. 2023
  • All this made Cromwell a hero in the eyes of later Protestant Nonconformists, who admired him for his hostility to an episcopal church and for his championing of religious toleration.
    Keith Thomas, The New York Review of Books, 8 June 2022
  • Amid the wartime housing shortage, the couple, together with their four children, were immediately invited to move into the small upper floor of the episcopal palace in Salamanca where the Francos lived.
    Jesús Palacios, Slate Magazine, 9 Feb. 2017

Episcopal

2 of 2 noun
  • Robinson is quick to point out that there have always been gay bishops in the Episcopal Church.
    Ted Koppel, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2024
  • His writing was collected by a priest from a nearby Episcopal church who sent the manuscripts out to be self-published and sold online.
    Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Players and staff would stay at a hotel in the city and hold training sessions at Episcopal High School.
    Lee Igel, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
  • Wilder said the visions the Episcopal Diocese has for the property are promising.
    Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The scene was condemned at the time by the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington.
    Jill Colvin, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem, which runs the hospital, condemned the strike.
    Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Medics raced the toddler to Saint John’s Episcopal Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
    Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Pastors in the African Methodist Episcopal Church were giving up chunks of their salaries to colleagues who lost churches in the area.
    Angele Latham, The Tennessean, 29 Aug. 2025
  • In 1949, the building was sold to an African Methodist Episcopal congregation and given its current name.
    Kiki Intarasuwan, CBS News, 21 May 2025
  • Much of Ian MacKaye’s progressive moralism comes from his Episcopal upbringing.
    Chris R. Morgan, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
  • His daughter Charlotte was married in the Episcopal church in 1833, according to church records and as posted by Lowry on Facebook.
    Sydney Bishop, CNN, 7 July 2024
  • The daughter of an African Methodist Episcopal Church minister, Gibson grew up watching jazz funerals from her bedroom window.
    Dian Zhang, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Classmates told his family that Nelson made a point to always sit with the new kids at All Saint’s Episcopal School in Fort Worth, or sit with students who didn’t have anyone else to eat lunch with.
    Ciara McCarthy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Mary Davis, an attorney for the Episcopal Diocese in New York, where Go's mother is a priest, told CNN that the hearing was part of the process to convert her religious worker’s dependent visa, known as a R-2 visa, to a student visa.
    Sam Gillette, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • But the New York Post — which on Friday broke the news that the former Episcopal Church of the Holy Communion turned notorious 1980s nightclub was on the market — speculated that the lease being offered may cover only the main sanctuary.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 11 Aug. 2025

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