749 examples of episcopal in sentences

The severity of the rulers, instigated by the episcopal clergy, increased with the obstinacy of the recusants, until the latter, in 1666, assumed arms for the purpose of asserting their right to worship God in their own way.

This was the Methodist Episcopal, North, and I was ordained as a deacon and later an elder by white bishops.

The American churches of those denominations most largely represented in Liberiathe Episcopal, Presbyterian, Baptist and Methodistmade strenuous efforts, and sent out a succession of missionaries, most of whom fell victims to the fever.

After they have so long contended for their classical ordination (not to speak of rites and ceremonies) will they at length submit to an episcopal?

An Episcopal clergyman in the same parish with Allston wrote that he held fortnightly services among the negroes on ten plantations, and enlisted some of the literate slaves as lay readers.

The Episcopal failure was the "evangelical" opportunity.

He was a stranger in Philadelphia, but had heard that Mr. Duche (Dushay they pronounced it) deserved that character, and therefore he moved that Mr. Duche, an Episcopal clergyman, might be desired to read prayers to the Congress to-morrow morning.'

We know too well that the Episcopal church was founded by an English King, because the Pope of Rome refused him a divorce.

I have been a member of Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church, Annapolis, for more than 40 years.

My grandfather ran away through the aid of Harriet Tubman and went to Philadelphia and saved $350, and purchased my grandmother through the aid of a Quaker or an Episcopal minister, I do not know.

He desired to have chaplains of the Episcopal church; but the Parliament refused this, and sent him two Presbyterian ministers, whom the king refused to receive.

" Psalms and Hymns of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Hymn LV.

Perhaps the "Lady-bird" in Suffolk derives its episcopal title, alluded to by LEGOUR, from appearing in June, in which month falls the Festival of St. Barnabas.

Religious Orders are extra-episcopal.

Whitefield and the Wesleys, and that grim but grand old Mother in Israel, Selina Countess of Huntingdon, found their evangelistic energies fatally cramped by episcopal authority, and, quite against their natural inclinations, were forced to act through independent organizations of their own making.

The people, according to episcopal showing, had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.

"Thank younot till we have disposed of what is before us," was the bland episcopal reply.

He was appointed rector of Grace Protestant Episcopal Church, New York, in 1868, and was coadjutor to his uncle, Horatio Potter, from 1883 to 1887, when he was made Bishop of the Diocese of New York.

A manual for baptized children of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

GOOLD, FLORENCE H. An outline history of the Episcopal Church.

So many watering-places claim CANUTE as their own that he may be expected to be multiplied exceedingly in the approaching Peace revels; but from more than one Pastoral Letter it may be gathered that the Episcopal Bench is very wisely in favour of the King's retirement from the margin of the ocean before his shoes are actually wet.

Near it are the ruins of Hippo, the episcopal city of Augustine.

BOY BISHOP, a boy chosen on 6th December, St. Nicholas' Day, generally out of the choir, to act as bishop and do all his episcopal duties, except celebrate mass.

For the term of his office, which varied, he was treated as bishop, and if he died during his tenure of it was buried with episcopal honours.

BRIEUC, ST., (19), a seaport and an episcopal city in the dep.

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