Orthodoxy's Flowering--The Continuity of the Rule of Faith Among the Fathers-----------------------------------------------------------Consider First- The Developing Role of the Bishop--Stage 1- The Plurality of Elders-Bishops in the Early Church-Stage 2- The Emergence of the Singular Bishop or Mono-episcopate-Stage 3- An Early form of -Apostolic- Succession-Stage 4- Developed Apostolic Succession and the Collective Episcopate