(1) Instead it called for u2018further theological study on the episcopate, focusing on the issues that need to be addressed in preparation for the debate on women in the episcopate of the Church of Englandu2019.

(2) If the episcopate * as an office * is the problem then what are we saying?

(3) The Church Society rejected any suggestion the episcopate should be open to women, and said their ordination had damaged the Anglican Church.

(4) For him, conciliarism was essentially a teaching about the shared responsibility of the whole episcopate , whether gathered in council or scattered in the dioceses.

(5) A person is ordained into the historic episcopate , but does not u2018receiveu2019 it.

(6) Furthermore, no single policy emanated from the government because of the individualism of licensors, and of divisions within the episcopate , and between James and the leading churchmen.

(7) By his death, Theodore had built up the episcopate and created an organized, united church under Canterbury.