Who do you think appointed the first bishops (Gk episcopoi, “overseers”)? My Bible has Paul saying he had something to do with it, but maybe somebody used an X-Acto knife and excised those passages from yours.
“but maybe somebody used an X-Acto knife and excised those passages from yours”
Paul also said a bishop must be the husband of one wife and keep his children under control. Seems like someone else used an X-Acto knife.
Show me where any apostle appointed a pope or Catholic Bishop.
Since you are going to refer to a bible, YOUR bible also says all legitimate bishops are married with children...So if an unmarried bishop snuck in there illegitimately, every time he layed his hands on someone, it was an illegitimate ordination...
There is certainly no apostolic succession thru any unmarried bishop...