In the same year as his episcopal succession was Frederick Barbarossa elected king.

The conflict was bound to produce a disputed episcopal succession sooner or later; and in 311 it did.

The established Church of Scotland claims the same continuity, though without the episcopal succession to which these early saints adhered.

There appears to have been a break in the episcopal succession, however.

It seems certain that many sees maintained an uninterrupted episcopal succession through the turmoil of the invasion and the following years.

Nearly a third of the bishops are missing, and the episcopal succession as given by Chenu was very incomplete.

After the Reformation, there were parallel episcopal successions.

Anglican ecclesiology does not, classically, hold the view that the church and sacramental grace depend upon the episcopal succession from the apostles.

After the Reformation, the united see of Down and Connor had parallel episcopal successions.

It is difficult to determine the episcopal succession in the diocese of Salmas in the late-seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.