A Bishop over Affairs Outside the Church

So it was not without reason that once, when he was entertaining a company of bishops, he let fall the remark that he himself was a bishop too. He spoke to them in my hearing in these words: “You are bishops whose charge is within the church. I too am a bishop, ordained by God to oversee whatever is outside the church.” And indeed his actions matched his words. He watched over his subjects with a bishop’s care, and urged them, as far as he could, to lead a godly life. [a]