the episcopacy

“In 1905 Father John Joseph Collins, S.J., was appointed administrator Apostolic of the vicariate, and in 1907 he was raised to the episcopacy as Bishop of Antiphellos in partibus infidelium and Vicar”

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent

“Iiberal education he renounced his worldly prospects for the service of the Church, became archdeacon of Clermont under Bishop Proculus, and succeeded him in the episcopacy in 656.”

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI

“She had a wonderful faith in the efficacy of that ancient practice of the early Christians -- the sign of the cross, and it is recorded, that on one occasion, in 676, during the episcopacy of St. Mommelinus, when the town was threatened with total destruction by fire, she made the sign of the cross over the flames, and the conflagration was forthwith extinguished.”

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI