"episcopacy" meaning in English

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      "form": "episcopacies",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2009, John Sadler, Glencoe, Amberley, published 2009, page 16:",
          "text": "Further religious division occurred during the post-Restoration decades in the reign of Charles II, when strenuous and violent efforts were made by the Government to impose an episcopacy on the Scottish Church.",
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          "lang": "Ido",
          "sense": "government of the church by bishops",
          "word": "episkopeso"
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          "sense": "government of the church by bishops",
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "episcopato"
        }
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        "Bishops collectively: Synonym of episcopate."
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          "_dis1": "6 94",
          "sense": "congregationalism",
          "word": "Congregationalism"
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          "_dis1": "17 83",
          "code": "io",
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          "sense": "bishops collectively",
          "word": "episkoparo"
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          "sense": "bishops collectively",
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          "word": "episcopato"
        }
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      "ipa": "/ɪˈpɪskəpəsi/",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "bishopdom"
    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "bishophood"
    },
    {
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      "word": "bishopric"
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      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "government of the church by bishops",
      "word": "episkopeso"
    },
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      "sense": "government of the church by bishops",
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      "word": "episcopato"
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      "sense": "bishops collectively",
      "word": "episkoparo"
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      "sense": "bishops collectively",
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      "word": "episcopato"
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  "word": "episcopacy"
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