Polycarp

[billcu1]

I hope this is the right forum. I read that it was John who ordained Polycarp bishop of Smyrna. I thought that Peter was supposed to ordain or am I wrong.

 

[DaveBj]

I hope this is the right forum. I read that it was John who ordained Polycarp bishop of Smyrna. I thought that Peter was supposed to ordain or am I wrong.

Any of the apostles could ordain. Paul ordained bishops and presbyters (priests).

 

[Jon_S_1]

I hope this is the right forum. I read that it was John who ordained Polycarp bishop of Smyrna. I thought that Peter was supposed to ordain or am I wrong.

No, all the apostles received the power to bind and lose. All the apostles ordained MATTHIAS.

This makes sense as the apostles all traveled to different parts of the world following the great commission.

Peter received the keys which made him the head of apostles as the key bearer was head of the house of David. Peters sole authority was Christ as the key bearer’s sole authority was the king.

Ordination/Apostolic Succession is separate.

Paul Ordained Timothy

2 Timothy 1:6

For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands,

 

[billcu1]

No, all the apostles received the power to bind and lose. All the apostles ordained MATTHIAS.

This makes sense as the apostles all traveled to different parts of the world following the great commission.

Peter received the keys which made him the head of apostles as the key bearer was head of the house of David. Peters sole authority was Christ as the key bearer’s sole authority was the king.

Ordination/Apostolic Succession is separate.

Paul Ordained Timothy

2 Timothy 1:6

For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands,

What was Timothy and Matthias bishops of?

 

[Jon_S_1]

What was Timothy and Matthias bishops of?

I found this on Timothy.

Timothy (Greek: Τιμόθεος; Timótheos, meaning “honouring God”[1] or “honored by God”[2]) was the first first-century Christian bishop of Ephesus,[3] whom tradition relates died around the year AD 97. The New Testament indicates that Timothy traveled with Saint Paul, who was also his mentor. He is addressed as the recipient of the Epistles to Timothy.

And this on Matthias which is very interesting. I think he was more of an evangelist than a bishop tied to one city.

According to Nicephorus (Historia eccl., 2, 40), Matthias first preached the Gospel in Judaea, then in Aethiopia (made out to be a synonym for the region of Colchis, now in modern-day Georgia) and was stoned to death in Colchis. A marker placed in the ruins of the Roman fortress at Gonio (Apsaros) in the modern Georgian region of Adjara claims that Matthias is buried at that site.

The Synopsis of Dorotheus contains this tradition:

Matthias in interiore Æthiopia, ubi Hyssus maris portus et Phasis fluvius est, hominibus barbaris et carnivoris praedicavit Evangelium. Mortuus est autem in Sebastopoli, ibique prope templum Solis sepultus.

“Matthias preached the Gospel to barbarians and meat-eaters in the interior of Ethiopia, where the sea harbor of Hyssus is, at the mouth of the river Phasis. He died at Sebastopolis, and was buried there, near the Temple of the Sun.”

An extant Coptic Acts of Andrew and Matthias, places his activity similarly in “the city of the cannibals” in Aethiopia.[4][5]

Alternatively, another tradition maintains that Matthias was stoned at Jerusalem by the Jews, and then beheaded (cf. Tillemont, Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire ecclesiastique des six premiers siècles, I, 406–7).

According to Hippolytus of Rome, Matthias died of old age in Jerusalem.

Clement of Alexandria observed (Stromateis vi.13.):

Not that they became apostles through being chosen for some distinguished peculiarity of nature, since also Judas was chosen along with them. But they were capable of becoming apostles on being chosen by Him who foresees even ultimate issues. Matthias, accordingly, who was not chosen along with them, on showing himself worthy of becoming an apostle, is substituted for Judas.

 

[MorEphrem]

What was Timothy and Matthias bishops of?

Timothy was bishop of Ephesus. I don’t know if Matthias was bishop of a specific city but he was the apostle that replaced Judas.