"Prelacies" is a word in ENGLISH

An agreement made by the Scottish Parliament in 1638, and by the English Parliament in 1643, to preserve the reformed …

The order of prelates, taken collectively; the body of ecclesiastical dignitaries.

The office or dignity of a prelate; church government by prelates.

Prelacy.

Of or pertaining to prelates or prelacy; as, prelatical authority.

Prelacy; episcopacy.

One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman.

To bring under the influence of prelacy.

To uphold or encourage prelacy; to exercise prelatical functions.

Prelaty; prelacy.

The state or dignity of a prelate; prelacy.

Prelacy.