1. There was division among the Roman catholic episcopate as well and as many favoured the system as were against it.

2. He had obligations to the universal episcopate which had to act in harmony for the unity of the church.

3. It said nothing whatsoever of any correlative power of the episcopate.

4. Pastoral politics has allowed the moral and intellectual level of the episcopate to slip to dangerous levels.

5. On Christmas Day 1100 Baldwin I, first king of the Frankish Kingdom of Jerusalem, was crowned in Bethlehem, and that year a Latin episcopate was also established in the town.

6. Some time after the elevation of M. Myriel to the episcopate, the Emperor had made HIM a baron of the Empire, in company with many other bishops.

7. It makes all the bishops equivalently say that before they received the episcopate they had for some time exercised the duties of the priesthood.