Part,  Chapter, Paragraph

 1 Intro, A,5|         and approved by the local bishops;~and they were read at the
 2 Intro, A,6|         were councils of regional bishops representing a~wider area
 3 Intro, A,6|         and, finally, councils of bishops of the whole Orthodox~Church
 4 Intro, A,6|         happened that councils of bishops permitted heretical~views
 5 I, 2,9    |         Holy Spirit~hath made you bishops, to feed the Church of God,
 6 II, 5,2   |    Apostle Timothy against making bishops of those~who are newly converted,
 7 II, 5,3   |   Carthage in 252,~composed of 66 bishops under the presidency of
 8 II, 5,3   |    African Code,” approved by 217 bishops at Carthage in 419 and ratified
 9 II, 7,3   |      Second Ecumenical Council of bishops, after the completion of
10 II, 7,3   |         to Pope Damasus and other bishops of the Roman Church, which
11 II, 7,5   | domination by Communists; but~the bishops of the Church Outside of
12 II, 7,5   |         of disobedient priests or bishops and uninstructed people.”~
13 II, 7,6   |         These successors were the bishops.~Bishops.~The Apostle Paul
14 II, 7,6   |      successors were the bishops.~Bishops.~The Apostle Paul writes
15 II, 7,6   |             To Timothy and Titus, Bishops~of Ephesus and Crete, is
16 II, 7,6   |         the Lord Himself . placed bishops as their immediate successors
17 II, 7,6   |     helpers and as helpers of the bishops, as the “hands” of the bishops,~
18 II, 7,6   |    bishops, as the “hands” of the bishops,~placing the further matter
19 II, 7,6   | ordination of presbyters with the Bishops.~Presbyters (priests).~Presbyters (
20 II, 7,6   |         Holy Spirit hath made you bishops~(overseers), to feed the
21 II, 7,6   |         deacons were appointed by bishops (1 Tim.~3:8-13). According
22 II, 7,6   |           sends~greetings to “the bishops and deacons” (1:1), as bearers
23 II, 7,6   |          ministry,~helpers of the bishops.~St. Justin the Martyr writes: “
24 II, 7,6   |      Church literature, sometimes bishops and deacons are named without
25 II, 7,6   |          in view of the fact that bishops themselves were the representatives
26 II, 7,6   |           Smyrneans, par. 8).~The bishops comprise the highest rank
27 II, 7,6   |           of Tertullian, “Without bishops there is no Church” (Tertullian,~“
28 II, 7,6   |         part 4, ch. 5).~Among the bishops there are some who are leaders
29 II, 7,6   |    successors of the Apostles-the bishops.~The councils of the Church.~
30 II, 7,6   |          general, is a~council of bishops: for a local Church it is
31 II, 7,6   |         is a council of its local bishops, and for the Ecumenical~
32 II, 7,6   |          Church, a council of the bishops of the whole Church.~The
33 II, 7,6   |          preserved lists of their bishops in their uninterrupted~succession.~
34 II, 7,6   |       those who were appointed as bishops in~the Churches by the Apostles,
35 II, 7,6   |       order the succession of the bishops of the Roman Church almost
36 II, 7,6   |        reveal~the series of their bishops who might continue in succession
37 II, 7,6   |       Churches keep the lists (of bishops) precisely in this way.~
38 II, 8,4   |          and their successors the bishops, as overseers of the members~
39 II, 8,4   |         immediate successors, the bishops, could not~personally be
40 II, 8,4   |     performed by the Apostles and~bishops themselves, while the anointment
41 II, 8,4   |           when possible, of other bishops of the Church (The Patriarch
42 II, 8,7   |          hath made you~overseers (bishops), to feed the Church of
43 II, 8,7   |       sacred action through which bishops were appointed. Thus, in
44 II, 8,7   |   successors of the~Apostles, the bishops, had to fulfill precisely
45 II, 8,7   |        were their successors: the bishops. So it~has remained up to
46 II, 8,7   |           in the Church, that is, bishops) who are in the Church and
47 II, 8,7   |          ordained by two or three bishops. Let a~presbyter, deacon
48 II, 8,7   | relatively late).~The celibacy of Bishops.~For a bishop there exists
49 II, 8,7   |          times it was allowed for bishops to avoid~marriage for the
50 App, 5,2  |         the~days of the repose of bishops whose annual commemoration
51 App, 5,2  |         Greek Church~all Orthodox bishops who did not sully themselves
52 App, 5,2  |    probability, the most renowned bishops were recognized as~saints
53 App, 5,2  |         The names of all departed bishops were entered in the local
54 App, 5,2  |          saints belonged to their~bishops and their clergy or officials
55 App, 5,2  |           quite possible that the~bishops did not perform such an
56 App, 5,2  |     metropolitan and~the synod of bishops of the metropolitan province.
57 App, 5,3  |  Constantinople with his synod of bishops gives the blessing. Athos,
58 App, 5,3  |     brethren, the archbishops and bishops, most honored in the Holy
59 App, 5,5  |         Cornelius. The patriarch, bishops, and all others attending