Sunday, July 13, 2008
"Peter Leithart, Irenaeus & Bishops"
Just ran across this post by Taylor Marshall, which seems to assume the (majority?) view that presbyters/priests and bishops are separate orders. Somewhere I picked up the idea that presbyters and bishops are ultimately of the same order, as evidenced by the fact that bishops are not ordained to the episcopate, but rather consecrated. They were already ordained; they're just set apart among the ordained to serve as bishops, as pastors of pastors, cities, regions, etc. I seem to recall that this was a historically held position, although probably the minority (Eastern Orthodox?) view. Can anyone point me to some resources on this?
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