CAJ 4:1 (Spring 2005) p. 22 given church, to say nothing of authority over even a group of churches. Further, this short step into episcopalism was still a long way from the later claim of Rome to have infallible authority over all churches. Third, it took some time before more authority was given to bishops and before eventually there was a bishop over a whole region and ultimately a bishop over bishops, the bishop of Rome. Indeed, it was not until the late nineteenth century that the Papacy made