prelacy

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This happened during the prelacy of Geoffrey de Servin.

From Architectural Antiquities of Normandy by Cotman, John Sell

The Cavaliers being the Court party, and the Roundheads the Country party, the union was infallible betwixt the former and the established prelacy, and betwixt the latter and Presbyterian nonconformists.

From Essays by Hume, David

See that objection of hearing prelatical men in the time of former prelacy, answered above, Period 4.

From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Shields, Alexander

Pope Pius II., in his memoirs, called him "An ornament to the prelacy."

From Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by B.D.

To this prelacy and intolerance would have been joined inevitably.

From The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli by Hottinger, Johann Jakob