Category:Bishops

"An ecclesiastical and administrative office. JS appointed Edward Partridge as the first bishop in February 1831. Later revelations described a bishop’s duties as receiving consecrations, appointing stewardships, dividing inheritances, managing the church storehouse, purchasing church lands, and serving as a “judge in Israel.” A November 1831 revelation stated that a bishop was responsible for “administering all temporal things,” indicated that a bishop was to be a high priest, and specified the necessity of designating other bishops in the church. In response to this revelation, Newel K. Whitney was appointed as a bishop for Ohio in December 1831. A September 1832 revelation designated the office of bishop as an appendage to the high priesthood, but in early 1835, another revelation explained that the bishop was the highest office in the Aaronic, or lower, order of the priesthood and that bishoprics presided over the Aaronic Priesthood generally and over local priests in particular."