Episcopacy
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Archbishops, Bishops · Episcopal constitution · episcopal hierarchy · exorbitant power of the prelates · power of episcopacy · the Episcopal office
in the texts
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
The system of church government by bishops, retained by the Church of England and later swept away as a consequence of the English Revolution.
The abolition of the House of Lords and the sweeping away of Episcopacy were secondary consequences of the movement.
Basing herself on this foundation, she retained the Episcopal office, which could be shown to have been in existence at least in very early times.
Both accepted the Episcopal constitution of the Church and its relations with the Crown.