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Bishops vs Prelaty - What's the difference?

bishops | prelaty |

As nouns the difference between bishops and prelaty

is that bishops is plural of lang=en while prelaty is the system of ecclesiastic governance by prelates or bishops; episcopacy, prelacy.

bishops

English

Noun

(head)

    • prelaty

    English

    Noun

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  • 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 [...].