episcopal

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Recent Examples of episcopal The pointed hats, known as mitres, are a traditional part of episcopal attire, representing their authority and service within the Church. Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Apr. 2025 The lime-green Met Gala look, May 2018 Photography Shutterstock Miuccia wasn’t about episcopal tailoring or a gilded colour palette for 2018’s Met Gala, themed Heavenly Bodies and the Catholic Imagination. Julia Hobbs, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2024 By leaving the episcopal ring on Archinto’s finger outside the curtain, Titian emphasizes his right to the position. Washington Post, 20 July 2023 Congregations also disaffiliate by vote in individual episcopal area conferences. Caleb Wiegandt, The Courier-Journal, 7 June 2023 See All Example Sentences for episcopal
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Adjective
  • For centuries, the land was the private dwelling of emperors and pontiffs until 2014, when Pope Francis opened the papal gardens to the public.
    Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Supposedly his papal salary is in the neighborhood of $400,000.
    Tax Notes Staff, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • View Comments The Friday event, which took place inside the Vatican’s apostolic palace, included a roundtable discussion on AI ethics and governance.
    Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 20 June 2025
  • The Friday event, which took place inside the Vatican’s apostolic palace, included a roundtable discussion on AI ethics and governance.
    CNN.com, Mercury News, 20 June 2025
Adjective
  • Despite being the first voice in nearly every emergency, dispatchers are often classified as clerical staff instead of first responders.
    Jason Truppi, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The Social Security Administration bases its COLA each year on average annual increases in the consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers (CPI-W) from July through September.
    Medora Lee, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Landau, in Seoul for a Korea-US vice foreign ministerial meeting, said that the 316 South Koreans who returned home Friday on a chartered jet after being detained in Georgia will face no disadvantage when re-entering the US, according to South Korea’s foreign ministry.
    Nino Paoli, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The plaintiffs claim his acts denied access to justice, violated ministerial duties and undermined the public’s trust.
    Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • In 1997, Greenspan read an article in the Times about a group of geneticists who had tested the Y chromosomes of Jewish men who believed themselves to be part of an ancient priestly tradition called the cohanim.
    Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The priestly fraternity, named in honor of the anti-modernist Pope St. Pius X, was founded in 1970 by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre as a response to liturgical reforms made in the Second Vatican Council (also known as Vatican II).
    Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The sprawling roughly 2,000-year-old property includes ancient Roman archaeological sites, farmlands, pontifical villas and lush papal gardens, with areas for organic farming and regenerative cultivation.
    Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Related Articles For the past 40-plus years in the Philippines, Natori’s mother Angelita Cruz has been very close to the nuncios (who act as pontifical ambassadors), the designer said.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 18 June 2025
Adjective
  • Prosperity is lauded dozens of times in the Book of Mormon, so knocking for commissions can feel almost sacerdotal.
    Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Diminution drains this office of the sacerdotal pomposities that have encrusted it.
    Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2017
Adjective
  • After all, if words are the weapons of oppression, then isn’t an evangelical Republican giving a speech just an armed and dangerous enemy?
    Michael Graham, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The largest religious traditions in America today are evangelical Protestant Christianity and the Catholic Church.
    Ryan Burge, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2025

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“Episcopal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/episcopal. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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