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- noun Plural form of
episcopate .
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Examples
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Purging the rotten Latin American episcopates should have been a priority of Benedict XVI but, unfortunately, he has been more inclined to appoint dubious candidates than John Paul II.
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There is, it is true, and indult which, on request of the [local] episcopates, allows for the distribution of the host [sic] also on the palm of the hand, but this must remain an extraordinary fact.
Tornielli: The "Reform of the Reform" Proposals Approved by the Pope 2009
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There is, it is true, and indult which, on request of the [local] episcopates, allows for the distribution of the host [sic] also on the palm of the hand, but this must remain an extraordinary fact.
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Then there is an indult that allows, at the request of episcopates, to distribute Communion also on the palm of the hand.
Cardinal Cañizares on Liturgical Reforms, Summorum Pontificum 2009
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There is, it is true, and indult which, on request of the [local] episcopates, allows for the distribution of the host [sic] also on the palm of the hand, but this must remain an extraordinary fact.
Liturgy 2009
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A long work which does not want to send things down from above by imposition, but to involve the episcopates.
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A long work which does not want to send things down from above by imposition, but to involve the episcopates.
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A long work which does not want to send things down from above by imposition, but to involve the episcopates.
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After decades of continuing liberal hegemony in the various american episcopates the erst powerful structures of the church seem to be smashed to smithers.
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If it is not crushed down by the mighty Bugninist lobby within the Curia and in the episcopates.
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