---
title: 'John Calvin and Diocesan Episcopacy'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Samuel Macon Smith'
date: 1893-11-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Ecclesiology (General)'
- 'Reformation History'
scriptures:
- 'Philippians 1'
- 'Acts 20'
- 'Titus 1'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/smith-1893-john-calvin-and-diocesan-episcopacy
---

# John Calvin and Diocesan Episcopacy

Obituary of B. M. Smith (d.1893) and an essay arguing John Calvin did not endorse 'three distinct orders' in church government, citing his Institutes and Scripture.

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