During his episcopal ministry, he visited the villages and constructed Chapels in many of them.
After 11 years of fruitful Episcopal ministry he retired in July 1997.
Whether a church should have the episcopal ministry (bishops) to be a 'true church' is a highly important question in ecumenical dialogue.
Watson's contacts now widened, and he appears to have exercised some sort of episcopal ministry "in vinculis".
Still in China, at the age of about 32, Sanford was ordained to the Episcopal ministry.
The focus of his episcopal ministry has been the diocesan Pastoral Planning Process.
This arrangement allows for greater continuity of episcopal ministry but is not very common in the Anglican Communion.
The Czech primate was impeded from exercising his episcopal ministry upon his release.
To ensure that episcopal ministry would still be provided a priest, Richard Wood was elected as suffragan bishop.
After 33 years of laudable Episcopal ministry, Bishop Sundaram retired in 1986.