prelacy

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Considering how bishoprics go in the present day, we are astonished how the prelacy of Durham can pay at the price, and how, in fact, the bishop can manage to do it for the money.

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

But Dering appears only really to have aimed at the abolition of Laud's archiepiscopacy, and to have wished to see some purer form of prelacy re-established in place of the old.

From Books Condemned to be Burnt by Farrer, James Anson

The prominent pagan symbols which are now adopted by the Christian prelacy are generally astronomical.

From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Westbrook, Richard B.

The element of absolutism and prelacy was controlling.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

Prel′atism, Prel′ature, prelacy: the time during which a prelate exercises authority; Prel′atist, an upholder of prelacy.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various