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, 2024-01-21
  • 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, 2025-04-05
  • Players and staff would stay at a hotel in the city and hold training sessions at Episcopal High School.
    — Lee Igel, Forbes.com, 2025-07-14
  • 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, 2024-03-27
  • The Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem, which runs the hospital, condemned the strike.
    — Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy, Los Angeles Times, 2025-04-15
  • Fletcher was the mother of two children and a teacher at St. Mary's Episcopal School.
    — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 2024-10-29
  • Medics raced the toddler to Saint John’s Episcopal Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
    — Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 2025-02-28
  • 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
  • Attendance has been declining for years in the Episcopal Church and other faith traditions.
    — Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 2023-09-11
  • 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, 2024-07-07
  • 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
  • The Bishop was a leader of the Methodist Episcopal Church and a storyteller who never managed to complete his own autobiography.
    — Sara Georgini, Smithsonian Magazine, 2025-03-05
  • Matter protestors to disperse the demonstration and make room for a photo-op at St. John's Episcopal Church, which had been vandalized the night before during protests with a fire in the basement.
    — Rebecca Schneid, Time, 2025-08-11
  • The world’s sixth largest cathedral towers over the nation’s capital, an immense Episcopal church that also ranks as the third tallest building in Washington DC and the nation’s second largest church of any kind.
    — Joe Yogerst, Forbes, 2025-03-21
  • The 17-year-old rising senior at St. Paul’s Episcopal School started researching online about dwindling fish populations.
    — Mary Helene Hall | [email protected], al, 2023-07-19
  • Budde, the first woman to lead the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, hosted the president and his family for the inaugural prayer breakfast on Tuesday.
    — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 2025-01-22
  • 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
  • Anderson is the second commitment in Purdue’s 2025 class and the second player on this Parish Episcopal team to commit to the Boilermakers.
    — Peter Rauterkus, Dallas News, 2023-08-15
  • Benjamin finished the year at 17-3-1, falling in the regional final to Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy.
    — Gary Curreri, Sun Sentinel, 2025-03-28
  • Once everyone was acquainted, the wedding party spent the next day preparing for the ceremony at St. George’s Episcopal Church, which was filled with white and green hydrangea and several varieties of roses and spray roses.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 2024-01-14
  • 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
  • Kim, who became the first woman ordained in the Seoul Diocese of the Anglican Church of Korea, had been invited to develop the Episcopal church’s connection to Asian communities, said Mary Rothwell Davis, an attorney for the Episcopal Diocese of New York, where Go’s mother is a reverend.
    — Kimmy Yam, NBC news, 5 Aug. 2025

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