EPISCOPACY

—The origin of E. in Christian Church is a much vexed question over which Catholic and Prot. divines have disputed. It seems po ible that the bishops and presbyters of New Testament times were identical; the threefold ministry of the Church was probably not there at first, though when a clear system is developed it is that which is found. By the time of St. Ignatius we reach monarchical E. The e ential nature of E. is a erted by Catholic theologians, Rom., Gk., or Anglican. The Amer. Methodist, Protestant Episcopal, the Swed. Luther an, the Moravian, and Hungarian Unitarian Church po e forms of E. Dutch theologian; prof, at Leyden; follower of Arm in i us; banished at Synod 0) Dort, 1618, but returned, 1626,