By 1790, during the "Second Great Awakening", expanded missionary activity begun under strong episcopal leadership was largely sustained by a vigorous laity.

The expansion of the United States through the Louisiana Purchase created a need for the extension of the episcopal leadership of the Church.

He was elected the same year as Bishops Clark and Thomson, all three of whom died in their first quadrennium of episcopal leadership.

He is also a seriously committed Catholic intellectual, for whom the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, Archbishop of Chicago, stands as a model of consensus-building, moderately liberal episcopal leadership.

The collegial expression of episcopal leadership in the United Methodist Church is known as the Council of Bishops.

The Bishop of Chekiang, exercised episcopal leadership over the Diocese of Chekiang of the Anglican Church in China.

"But I think most Catholics are more mad at the episcopal leadership as the source of the problem," she said, referring generally to the Catholic bishops and cardinals.

The Bishop of Calcutta exercises episcopal leadership over the Diocese of Calcutta of the Church of North India.

He was awarded the doctorate in recognition of his research, publications, teaching and achievements in the fields of Christian social ethics, social welfare and poverty studies and episcopal leadership.