It turns out, I can't. Look what Paul tells Bishop Timothy:
| Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine. 18 For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward. |
"The elders that rule well." Those are bishops, like in 1st Peter 5:1-2 KJV, Peter's talking about bishops, or like in Acts 20:28 KJV where they're called "overseers," which is a translation of the word from which we get 'episcopal,' which is epi-, meaning 'over,' and scop- which is seeing or sight, like also 'telescope,' 'microscope.'
Paul also says of bishops, the following.
| Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses. |
The Catholic bishops must believe and teach the authoritative, infallible, Apostolic, teachings of the Christian faith, in matters of faith and morals, as found in the 'Catechism of the Catholic Church.' I am vanishingly less familiar with what all the different Orthodox bishops teach, but I think that they receive what genuine Church councils authenticate as Apostolic, such as in Jerusalem, Nicaea, Chalcedon, etc. Part of the story behind the schism between the Catholic and Orthodox bishops, is that a pope unilaterally authenticated a single word, 'filioque,' which in context means, "And from the Son," (speaking of He from Whom the Spirit proceeds) to the end of a line in the Nicene-Constantinopolitan creed, which was otherwise validly authenticated by Church councils.
The Orthodox bishops dug in their heels, and have not yielded since, with the exception of the Eastern Catholics, who are previously Orthodox churches, who chose to believe the 'filioque,' and who are now in communion with the popes and so are fully Catholic; just not Roman Catholic.
