St Athanasius ' long episcopate lasted 45 years ( c. 8 June 328 – 2 May 373 ) of which over 17 years were spent in five exiles ordered by four different Roman Emperors, not counting approximately six more incidents in which he had to flee Alexandria for his own safety to escape people seeking to take his life.

His long episcopate lasted 40 years, four months, and 4 days from November 14, 1971 until his death on March 17, 2012.

His episcopate is said to have lasted 37 years, and his life, according to Renaudot, 73 years.

Zeno's episcopate lasted for about ten years, and the date of his death is sometimes given as 12 April 371.

This activity in Pannonia made a conflict inevitable with the German episcopate, and especially with the bishop of Salzburg, to whose jurisdiction Pannonia had belonged for seventy-five years.

Pecci, who was highly popular in the first years of his episcopate, became now the object of attacks, both in the media and in his residence.

Epiphanius died after an episcopate of 14 years and 3 months.

The first five or six years of his episcopate were uneventful enough.

Conrad spent the remaining years of his episcopate improving the religious life in the archdiocese.

In the first years of the 21st century, the Church in Wales has begun to engage in numerous debates, particularly concerning the appointment of women to the episcopate and the recognition by the province as a whole of the equal statuses of the Welsh and English languages in all aspects of Church life.

Two years later, 455, the episcopate of Maximus came to a disastrous close by his deposition.

It was probably during the earlier years of his episcopate that Philoxenus composed his thirteen homilies on the Christian life.

Bede wrote about sixty years after the crucial events of Chad's episcopate, when the Continental pattern of territorial bishoprics and Benedictine monasticism had become established throughout the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, including Northumbria.

His classmate Father Eikmeier joined him in the ranks of the monsignori many years later during the episcopate of Msgr.

During his episcopate of over 39 years, the longest in the diocese's history, the number of parishes with schools in Columbus went from 37 to 74.

The fact that the late 19th century saw the second and third longest papal reigns ( to that point ) of Pius IX ( 31 years ) and Leo XIII ( 25 years ) provided additional jubilees ; their length of time since ordination, length since entering the episcopate, length of papal reign, etc.

After two years these talks arrived at no concrete conclusion because the Episcopalians insisted on the historic episcopate.

" To his contemporaries his forty years of influential episcopate, his friendship with Origen and Dionysius, the appeal to him of Cyprian, and his censure of Stephanus might well make him seem the most conspicuous figure of his time " ( Wace ).

He first appears ( c. 357 ) as a supporter of Acacius, bishop of Caesarea, the leader of that party in the episcopate which supported the Homoean formula by which the emperor Constantius II sought for a compromise between the Homoiousian and the Homoousian.

It is a forum for bishops of the Communion to reinforce unity and collegiality through manifesting the episcopate, to discuss matters of mutual concern, and to pass resolutions intended to act as guideposts.

The churches of the Anglican Communion have traditionally held that ordination in the historic episcopate is a core element in the validity of clerical ordinations.

His perceived piety and sanctity led to his promotion to the episcopate, and eventually, to his becoming archbishop.

Most Protestants deny the need for this type of continuity and the historical claims involved have been severely questioned ; Eric Jay comments that the account given of the emergence of the episcopate in chapter III of Lumen Gentium " is very sketchy, and many ambiguities in the early history of the Christian ministry are passed over " Their reasons are given in detail below.

Church, Ministry and Sacraments in the New Testament Paternoster Press: 1993, p. 94f </ ref > He also points out that when Ignatius writes to the Romans, there is no mention of a bishop of the Roman Church, " which we may suppose had not not yet adopted the monarchical episcopate.

The author of the Festal Index, who was the original collector of St. Athanasius ' famed Festal Epistles ( collected shortly after his death ), stated that the Arians had accused St. Athanasius, among other accusations, that his ordination as Pope of Alexandria in 328 was not canonical because at the time of the consecration to the episcopate he had not yet attained the canonical age 30.

This does not mean that the episcopate, in the sense of the holder of the order or office of bishop, must have developed only later, or have been plural, because in each church the college or presbyter-overseers ( also called " presbyter-bishops ") did not exercise an independent supreme power ; it was subject to the Apostles or to their delegates.

In Timothy and Titus in the New Testament a more clearly defined episcopate can be seen.

On Christmas Day 1100, Baldwin I, first king of the Frankish Kingdom of Jerusalem, was crowned in Bethlehem, and that year a Latin episcopate was also established in the town.

The agreement provided that the ELCA would accept the historical episcopate, something which became controversial in the ELCA.

Some within the ELCA argued that requiring the historic episcopate would contradict the traditional Lutheran doctrine that the church exists wherever the Word is preached and Sacraments are practiced.

According to Christian Tradition and Canon Law, the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria only ordains men to the priesthood and episcopate, and if they wish to be married, they must be married before they are ordained.

Other Christian churches also laying claim to the description " Catholic " include the Eastern Orthodox Church and those churches possessing the historic episcopate ( bishops ), such as those of the Anglican Communion.

* The term is used also to mean those Christian churches that maintain that their episcopate can be traced unbrokenly back to the apostles and consider themselves part of a catholic ( universal ) body of believers.

Methodists and Presbyterians believe their denominations owe their origins to the Apostles and the early church, but do not claim descent from ancient church structures such as the episcopate.

One of the most difficult issues concerning recognition and reconciliation of ministries was that of the historic episcopate.

Concerns over the historic episcopate have been sidelined since 2008, though they may re-emerge.

His episcopate, however, is chiefly remembered owing to its tragic close.

On 11 June 1921, he wrote to the Polish episcopate, warning against political misuses of spiritual power, urging again for peaceful coexistence with neighbouring peoples, stating that “ love of country has its limits in justice and obligations .” He sent nuncio Ratti to Silesia to act against potential political agitations of the Catholic clergy.

On 11 June 1921, Benedict XV asked Ratti to deliver his message to the Polish episcopate, warning against political misuses of spiritual power, urging again peaceful coexistence with neighbouring people, stating that “ love of country has its limits in justice and obligations ”

In this encyclical letter the Pope attached Later Pope Leo XIII encouraged the entire Roman Catholic episcopate to promote the devotion of the Nine First Fridays and he established June as the Month of the Sacred Heart.

Canon Eustachy Wołłowicz, of Vilna, read in Ruthenian and Latin the letter of the Ruthenian episcopate to the Pope, dated 12 June 1595.

Previously, Archbishop Flynn was the fourth Bishop of the Diocese of Lafayette in south-central Louisiana, having been ordained to the episcopate, in Albany, New York on 24 June 1986.