The Ambivalence and Inconsistencies of Protestant Thought on the Earliest "Monarchical" Bishops Protestants, especially Presbyterians and Baptists, who The "anti-Petrine" bias of Protestants leads them to posit that James was bishop of Jerusalem in the 1st century: when single bishops supposedly didn't exist.
Recently I've written about St. Jerome's view on the matter, as well as St. Ignatius of Antioch's (d. c. 110 or 117). Ignatius is described as the bishop I detail the evidence from early Fathers and Eusebius for monarchical (single) bishops being in place in cities and areas in the first and second centuries.
Gavin Ortlund is a Reformed Baptist author, speaker, pastor, and apologist for the Christian faith. He has a Ph.D. from Fuller Theological Seminary in Reformed Baptist scholar Gavin Ortlund argues that St. Jerome rejected apostolic succession and the papacy. Doctrinal development proves the contrary.
Definitions of Prayer & Intercession; God Sharing His Glory; Views of St. Augustine & Many Other Church Fathers Seth Kasten (see his blog) is a One of my series of replies to Lutheran Seth Kasten on the invocation of saints. I address his objections and biblical and patristic arguments against the practice.