Far from requiring that men appointed as overseers should be unmarried, Paul wrote to Titus: “For this reason I left you in Crete, that you might correct the things that were defective and might make appointments of older men [Greek, pre·sbyʹte·ros] in city after city, as I gave you orders; if there is any man free from accusation, a husband of one wife, having believing children that were not under a charge of debauchery nor unruly.
ვინაიდან ეპისკოპოსი [ბერძნულად, „ე·პიʹსკო·პოს“, რომლისგანაც მოდის სიტყვა „ეპისკოპოსი“] უნდა იყოს უმწიკვლო, როგორც ღვთის განმგებელი ».