" episcopal "

 [ "episcopal" ]

1: Edit to definition 4: Refers to the Episcopal Church, an organization of agnostics and former Catholics who like to have wine and little wafers at their Sunday meeting.

  * e.g.,  ... How many Episcopalians does it take to change a light bulb? 10, 1 to change it and 9 to stand around in the parking lot talking about how much better the old light bulb was. 

 [ "Episcopal" ]

1: The root of the word is "overseer." It refers to a Bishop. It also refers to the Christian denomination, the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, which is part of the worldwide Anglican Church with its origins in the Church of England. (In Canada, it is the Anglican Church, in England it is the Church of England, in Scottland it is the Episcopal Church.) It began when Henry VIII broke off the church in England with the Roman Catholic Church (the Pope in Rome) and declared that the Church of England would be ruled from England, not Rome.

  * e.g.,  ... In the Episcopal Church in the Uniteed States, there is a structure of oversight which includes bishops with episcopal oversight over dioceses. Unlike the Anglican Church in other countries, Bishops are elected by conventions in each diocese with representation from clergy and laity. 

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1: Most commonly used to refer to the Episcopal Church or the Protestant Church in the United States of America. It is the National Church of the United States and a part of the Anglican Communion. The Episcopal Church has a membership of approximately 3 million and more than a quarter of all Presidents were Episcopalian. The Washington National Cathedral is an Episcopal Cathedral. The roots of the colonization, founding, leadership, and growth of the United States of America are very closely tied to the Episcopal Church.

  * e.g.,  ... "Sad is the day for any man when he becomes absolutely satisfied with the life he is living, the thoughts that he is thinking and the deeds that he is doing; when there ceases to be forever beating at the doors of his soul a desire to do something larger which he seeks and knows he was meant and intended to do."  

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2:  Unlike many churches of similar liturgical background, the Episcopal Church allows ordained priests to be married, and the church ordains women (at every level, ie. Deacon, Priest, and Bishop).

  * e.g.,  ... ~Phillips Brooks  

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3:  Many consider the Episcopal Church to follow the via media or "middle way" between Protestant and strictly Catholic practices. Indeed, the Episcopal liturgy explicitly affirms belief in "one holy apostolic" church. Thus, many Episcopalians will argue that Roman Catholics are not the only "Catholics," but rather represent one of three branches of Catholicism--the Eastern Orthodox, the Roman Catholic, and the Episcopal or Anglo-Catholic. Episcopal liturgy, or the practice of the people in worship, does resemble that of the Roman Catholic Church, with certain differences, most notably the use of the Book of Common Prayer. -wikipedia

  * e.g.,  ... American Episcopal minister, gave sermon at Lincoln's funeral  

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4:  The Episcopal Church is highly involved in mission work around the world, has a particularly large number of congregants in Africa, where the church raises money to fight poverty, disease, and oppression.

  * e.g.,  ... "Being Episcopalian is great! Its like diet Catholic... All the religion of catholicism, and only HALF the guilt!"  

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5:  The three tenets of the Anglican church, which have carried on into the Episcopal Church are Scripture, tradition, and reason, thus showing that the church is based strongly on the idea of being an informed, thinking participant in one's faith.

  * e.g.,  ... ~ Robin Williams 

 [ "Episcopal" ]

1: Like Catholics but without the crap. And yes we like our coffee and our donuts. We are also extremely afraid of change. We ordain women and let the gays marry and that's why we're cool.

  * e.g.,  ... "how many episcopalians does it take to change a lightbulb?" 

 [ "episcopaling" ]

1: Attending an Episcopal church or otherwise engaging in Episcopalian activities.

  * e.g.,  ... Person 1: Why are you up so early, it's a Sunday! 

 [ "Episcopal" ]

1: Refers to the Episcopal Church, an organization of agnostics and former Catholics who like to take coffee and donuts after their Sunday meetings. Assuming they're not out playing golf.

  * e.g.,  ... The Episcopal Church is Catholic-lite! 

 [ "Episcopal" ]

1: Catholics without the whole devotion to God thing

  * e.g.,  ... I wanna seem religious but I dont care about any rules, ill be episcopalian!! 

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2: Catholic lite is a good description

 [ "Episcopal Church" ]

1: 1) The official member Church of the Worldwide Anglican Communion in the United States of America; 2) The only Anglican church in the United States of America; 3) The church of such glorious, godly men as Samuel Seabury, William White, John Henry Hobart, Philander Chase, Jackson Kemper, James DeKoven, and al.

  * e.g.,  ... Schismatic: "Yeah, I'm so glad I'm a member of this new Anglican Mission in the Americas church, with a total of like four dudes, one priest and a bishop; thank Gosh I'm not an Episcopalian!" Episcopalian: "I'm afraid, Sir, that I am the only Anglican here because I am a member of the Episcopal Church, and that you are a consummate douchebag who can slather your smackers around my fist which will shortly be engaging your throat." 

 [ "The Episcopal Academy" ]

1: The Episcopal Academy is a preppy school. But what you don't realize is that the people writing these things in are just jealous cause they go to Haverford and lack girls. These people writing in go to one of the rival schools and have the same type cars, with the same "Main-Line" moms, and the same life style. The kids at EA are more real and down to earth then any of the schools in the Inter AC (the correct spelling). Yes EA is misrepresented by losers that put their "sweet sixteen" on MTV. If I am not mistakin though I beleive he was Hanging out with mostly Haverford kids. Episcopal Academy is a great place to go to school and will be ridiculously dominant after their new campus is built.

  * e.g.,  ... By the way, Don't be pissed because Episcopal kids can party. 

 [ "The Episcopal Academy" ]

1: full of hottt boysss

  * e.g.,  ... "woahh hes FINEEEE" 

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2: ais sophomore class approves you

  * e.g.,  ... "yeahh he goes to EA"