Episcopal

See episcopal.

Episcopal (not generally comparable, comparative more Episcopal, superlative most Episcopal)

1. Of or relating to Anglicanism or an Anglican church, especially the Scottish Episcopal Church, the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, or the Anglican churches in the Philippines, western Asia, South Sudan, the Horn of Africa, and most of north Africa.

   Synonyms: (somewhat nonstandard) Episcopalian, (informal) Piscy

   Jane Doe was ordained as an Episcopal priest last year in the Diocese of Edinburgh.

   • 2019 August 16, Daniel Burke, “How Pete Buttigieg found God”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 22 October 2021:

     The cathedral is part of the Episcopal Church, the American branch of Anglicanism. Considered the "church of the establishment" for much of American history -- 11 US presidents have been Episcopalian -- the church of late has been known as a forerunner of progressive theology.

• Anglican

Episcopal (plural Episcopals)

1. (nonstandard) An adherent of an Anglican church, especially the Scottish Episcopal Church, the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, or the Anglican churches in the Philippines, western Asia, South Sudan, the Horn of Africa, and most of north Africa.

   Synonym: Episcopalian

• Typically, Episcopal serves only as an adjective. The noun normally used to refer to individual adherents of Episcopal churches is Episcopalian.

• Anglican

• Donald S. Armentrout and Robert Boak Slocum, editors (2000), “Episcopalian”, in An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church: A User-Friendly Reference for Episcopalians, New York: Church Publishing, →ISBN, page 186.
• Paula Froke, Anna Jo Bratton, Jeff McMillan, Pia Sarkar, Jerry Schwartz, and Raghuram Vadarevu, editors (2020), The Associated Press Stylebook, 55th edition, Associated Press.

• coapplies