In the 2nd century, an episcopal structure becomes more visible, and in that century this structure was supported by teaching on apostolic succession, where a bishop becomes the spiritual successor of the previous bishop in a line tracing back to the apostles themselves.

Several historians have interpreted the conclave to choose his successor as facing a choice between a diplomatic or a spiritual candidate, and they view Pacelli's diplomatic experience, especially with Germany, as one of the deciding factors in his election on 2 March 1939, his 63rd birthday, after only one day of deliberation and three ballots.

The game acts as a spiritual successor to the Space Quest series, including the use of a janitor as its protagonist.

It was designed by Takashi Nishiyama, the creator of the original Street Fighter, which it was envisioned as a spiritual successor to.

Another special feature of the Xbox Live Arcade port of Radiant Silvergun includes a secret " Ikaruga Mode " where the game uses the same scoring mechanics of its spiritual successor, which can be accessed by unlocking an achievement within Ikaruga.

Unlike its spiritual successor Madlax, Noir is mainly about reality's criminal underworld while Madlax is about supernatural events.

At the 2010 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, took the stage at the start of game publisher Ubisoft's annual media event to reveal, to the surprise of the assembled media, the spiritual successor to his game Rez, called Child of Eden.

In 2007 AC announced a joint venture with Brooklands Motor Company ( the spiritual successor of Autokraft ) in Weybridge, Surrey, UK and confirmed plans for the continuation of the traditional AC designed tubular chassis and aluminium bodied models.

The game was reprinted in Europe in 2006, in conjunction with the release of Shadow of the Colossus, the spiritual successor to Ico.

Interplay has described its 1997 game Fallout as the spiritual successor to Wasteland.

In yet other orders a successor may be identified through the spiritual dreams of its members.

It is said that the Fallout series is the spiritual successor to Wasteland.

Although Brahmachari Mahesh was a close disciple, he could not be the Shankaracharya's spiritual successor because he was not of the Brahmin caste.

GoldenEye 007 was followed by a spiritual successor, Perfect Dark, also developed by Rare for the Nintendo 64.

GoldenEye 007 led Rare to begin development of a spiritual successor titled Perfect Dark, also for the Nintendo 64.

Because of the series ' popularity, various developers have created spiritual successor games similar in theme and tone of the X-COM games ( sometimes called " X-COM clones "; Gollop also himself called turn-based tactical game genre in general as " sons of Rebelstar " in a reference to one of his earlier games ).

Fierce Creatures is a 1997 farcical comedy film, and the spiritual successor to A Fish Called Wanda.

In 2000, Rare released the spiritual successor to GoldenEye 007, Perfect Dark.

Jagadguru Swami Sathyananda Saraswathi, the renowned spiritual teacher reckoned as the greatest karmayogi to uphold Sanatana Dharma since Swami Vivekananda drew inspiration from the Guru's life and teachings and popularised it through his long oratories across the length and breadth of Kerala. He can be regarded as a political successor of the guru who enshrined the guru's vision in the setting up of Hindu Aikya Vedi uniting all the Hindu organisations in Kerala under the aegis of a single organisation brushing aside caste distinctions and uniting the two major groups of Hindus in the state, respectively the savarna Nairs and Ezhavas. As Noted by

The Action Replay, Code Breaker, and GameShark are similar hacking devices, some acting as a spiritual successor on later generation consoles, although they were created by entirely different companies.

In 2010, thirteen years after the end of CRX production, Honda released the CRZ, regarded as the spiritual successor to the CRX.

The Cavedog team ended, but Ex-Cavedog & Lead Designer Chris Taylor, went on with Gas Powered Games to create Supreme Commander, popularly considered the " spiritual successor " of Total Annihilation.

Introduced in April 1968 as an early 1969 model, the Continental Mark III is the direct spiritual successor of the limited production, ultra-luxurious Continental Mark II produced by a short-lived Continental division of Ford Motor Company between in 1956 and 1957.

On September 27, 2012, it was announced that a group of Ex-Rare developers are planning a Banjo-Tooie spiritual successor.

When the Western Roman Empire was starting to disintegrate, Augustine developed the concept of the Catholic Church as a spiritual City of God ( in a book of the same name ), distinct from the material Earthly City.

* Augustine of Hippo begins his " Confessions ", an autobiograpy that recounts his intellectual and spiritual development.

* Augustine of Hippo, age 59, begins to writes his spiritual book De Civitate Dei ( City of God ) as a reply to the charge that Christianity was responsible for the decline of the Roman Empire.

In the City of God ( xiii. 20-21 ), Augustine of Hippo offers great allowance for " spiritual " interpretations of the events in the garden, so long as such allegories do not rob the narrative of its historical reality.

In A Third Testament, he profiles seven spiritual thinkers, whom he called " God's Spies ", who influenced his life: Augustine of Hippo, William Blake, Blaise Pascal, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Søren Kierkegaard.

By this Augustine meant that in Genesis 1 the terms " light ", " day ", and " morning " hold a spiritual, rather than physical, meaning, and that this spiritual morning is just as literal as physical morning.

Augustine recognizes that the creation of a spiritual morning is as much a historical event as the creation of physical light.

These feasts appeared to Augustine to take more pleasure in the physical world than the spiritual.

Despite Christianity's designation as the official religion of the Empire, Augustine declared its message to be spiritual rather than political.

Meanwhile, Western spiritual writing was deeply influenced by the works of such men as Jerome and Augustine of Hippo.

While Chrysostomos admits that, " in terms of classical Orthodox thought on the subject, Saint Augustine placed grace and human free will at odds, if only because his view of grace was too overstated and not balanced against the Patristic witness as regards the efficacy of human choice and spiritual labor.

The accusation is rejected by the Eastern Orthodox, which unlike these Western traditions was relatively uninfluenced by Augustine and holds that " for the regenerated to do spiritual good – for the works of the believer being contributory to salvation and wrought by supernatural grace are properly called spiritual – it is necessary that he be guided and prevented by grace … Consequently he is not able of himself to do any work worthy of a Christian life ".

Unlike St. Augustine, who was a supporter and founder of the theology of Christian love, Caesarius stressed the clarification and integration of implications for spiritual activism.

Spier had a very great influence on Etty's spiritual development ; he taught her how to deal with her depressive and egocentric bent and introduced her to the Bible and St. Augustine.

" And Augustine Casiday states that " for Cassian ... although sparks of goodwill may exist ( which are not directly caused by God ), they are totally inadequate and only direct divine intervention can ensure our spiritual progress ".

These are the men and women who follow the spirit of the Rule of St. Augustine in their daily lives under the spiritual guidance of the Augustinian friars.

Augustine of Hippo, in his City of God, interprets the verse as describing a division between the holy angels and the unclean angels, pointing out that existence of the sun, moon, and stars implied a division between physical light and dark, but " between that light, which is the holy company of the angels spiritually radiant with the illumination of the truth, and that opposing darkness, which is the noisome foulness of the spiritual condition of those angels who are turned away from the light of righteousness, only Himself could divide.