Note 856 — Chapter VIII · THE BISHOP.

The want of an archbishop to give canonical ordination to bishops, seems to have forced itself upon their notice. “Hunc antistitem ordinandum Romam miserunt; quatenus accepto ipso gradu archiepiscopatus, catholicos per omnem Britanniam aecclesiis Anglorum ordinare posset antistites.” Beda, H. E. iv. 29. It was at all events a good argument, though the difficulty was one which Gaul had often arranged.