11.   Eventually, the parish was reduced to a mission and taken over by the Episcopal bishop.

12.   Episcopal bishop Terrence Kelshaw, who has led nine tours to Ephesus, sees a striking parallel between the excessive sexuality of ancient Ephesus and our own time.

13.   Fort Worth, Texas, Episcopal Bishop Jack Iker and the small cluster of Episcopal bishops who refuse to ordain women took a beating recently.

14.   From the same family came a Confederate general, an Episcopal bishop and Kansas City financier William T. Kemper.

15.   Lutheran and Episcopal practice is not to ordain noncelibate homosexuals, though some Episcopal bishops have done so anyway.

16.   Over the years, other Episcopal bishops had ordained homosexuals, some knowingly, some not.

17.   Politicians have demonstrated a greater sense of morality than Episcopal bishops.

18.   Some Episcopal bishops were divided over the program, which they said lacked an urban ministries agenda.

19.   Some bishops in Africa and Asia, along with conservatives in the United States, have faulted liberal Episcopal bishops for supporting the ordination of gays.

20.   The agreement between the two churches requires new Lutheran bishops and clergy members to be ordained by Episcopal bishops in a laying on of hands.