CAJ 4:1 (Spring 2005) p. 29 What is more, several times God is called the invisible “the Bishop of all” (Trallians, 3; Magnesians, 3), the “Shepherd” (Letter to the Romans, 9), and Christ alone as “Bishop.”17 This fits with the biblical emphasis of Christ as the invisible head of the visible churches, just as the apostle John pictured in the Book of Revelation (chapters 1–3). Nonetheless, Ignatius does represent another step in the evolution of the episcopate-one where a form of episcopal government