different between episcopacy vs prelaty

English

Etymology

From episcopa(te) +? -cy and/or episcopa(l) +? -cy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??p?sk?p?si/

Noun

episcopacy (plural episcopacies)

1. The office of bishop and the governance of the Church by bishops.
   • 2009, John Sadler, Glencoe, Amberley 2009, p. 16:

     Further religious division occurred during the post-Restoration decades in the reign of Charles II, when strenuous and violent efforts were made by the Government to impose an episcopacy on the Scottish Church.

2. Bishops collectively; episcopate.

Synonyms

• bishopdom
• bishophood
• bishopric

Translations

English

Etymology

From Late Latin praelatia.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p??l?ti/

Noun

prelaty (uncountable)

1. (now historical) The system of ecclesiastic governance by prelates or bishops; episcopacy, prelacy.
   • 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:

     That those evills of Prelaty which before from five or six and twenty Sees were distributivly charg'd upon the whole people, will now light wholly upon learning, is not obscure to us […]

Anagrams

• Tarpley, apertly, pteryla