What's the difference between episcopalian and episcoparian?
Episcopalian
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to bishops, or government by bishops; episcopal; specifically, of or relating to the Protestant Episcopal Church.
(n.) One who belongs to an episcopal church, or adheres to the episcopal form of church government and discipline; a churchman; specifically, in the United States, a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
Example Sentences:
(1) McDaniel supported his 2003 election as bishop of New Hampshire, which, caused conservative Episcopalians in the US to break away and was the subject of intense debate in the worldwide Anglican church.
(2) The Episcopalian church will host a webcast on 24 March to kick off a month-long action campaign designed to encourage church members to reduce their own carbon footprints and lobby government and international corporations to fight climate change.
(3) Robinson was not born Episcopalian, and everything in his background legislated against what he has since become.
(4) In an atmosphere where the archbishop of Uganda can describe the Episcopalian decision as "a form of neocolonialism," separating doctrinal from cultural prejudices becomes a remarkably tricky task.
(5) I really hope to motivate average Episcopalians to see the severity of this issue, the morality of this issue,” she said.
(6) Katharine Jefferts Schori “Episcopalians understand the life of the mind is a gift of God and to deny the best of current knowledge is not using the gifts God has given you,” she said.
(7) It is true that all national churches in the communion are autonomous, and thus the Episcopalians were perfectly within their rights to proceed unilaterally, but could it perhaps have been done more carefully?
(8) Williams, for instance, seems to want to take it all slower, and thus have a greater chance of bringing more of the communion round to the Episcopalian point of view.
(9) So by the time he arrived at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, he was ready to be an Episcopalian, which, doctrinally at least, was more forgiving and inclusive (socially it tended to be the religion of Wasp landowners: eight of the first 14 presidents were Episcopalian; George Bush was an Episcopalian before he stopped drinking and became a Methodist).
(10) Part of Williams's strategy was to require a general moratorium on the blessing of same-sex partnerships and the election of clergy in gay relationships to bishoprics until a general consensus could be thrashed out; in July, at their triennial general convention in Anaheim, California, the Episcopalians pointedly removed themselves from it.
(11) While the details of our situation will remain appropriately private, I am seeking to be as open and honest in the midst of this decision as I have been in other dramatic moments of my life – coming out in 1986, falling in love, and accepting the challenge of becoming Christendom’s first openly gay priest to be elected a bishop in the historic succession of bishops stretching back to the apostles.” He added: “It is at least a small comfort to me, as a gay rights and marriage equality advocate, to know that like any marriage, gay and lesbian couples are subject to the same complications and hardships that afflict marriages between heterosexual couples.” Jim Naughton, an advocate for gay rights and co-founder of Canticle Communications, told the Associated Press the "strength, grace and generosity" shown by Robinson and Andrew would “always be a source of inspiration" for Episcopalians and Anglicans seeking acceptance of gay relationships.