High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Since the time of the Apostles and the writing of the New Testament, the office of Bishop has generally been recognized as the supreme teaching and governing force of the Catholic Church. Although languages use different terms, especially from Greek to English, New Testament authors speak of the Bishop (or bishopric or the episcopacy) interchangeably with the presbyterate (i.e., the priesthood). A lesser office created by the Church is the deaconate. The Bishop, however, came to hold "the fullness" of Holy Orders, the sacrament of grace which endows him with a special charism of the Holy Spirit to teach and govern. Presbyters, then, from apostolic times were delegated to carry out several functions, but they were ultimately responsible to the local bishop.

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