episcopal

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O’Connell became an auxiliary bishop and episcopal vicar for the archdiocese’s San Gabriel region in 2015.

From Washington Post • Feb. 19, 2023

It was also the first publication to report on the clergy sex abuse crisis and the episcopal cover-up beginning in the 1980s, many years before the Boston Globe published its own investigation.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2023

Since Aug. 3, authorities have confined Álvarez to the episcopal complex where he lives.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 14, 2022

Catholic priests leave the church after the episcopal ordination of Bishop Stephen Chow in Hong Kong, China December 4, 2021.

From Reuters • Dec. 30, 2021

Later on Mr. Jack Brown arrived in an extra coach that had been coupled onto the yellow train and that was silverplated all over, with seats of episcopal velvet, and a roof of blue glass.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez