Oh boy! This guy doesn't have a clue what a bishop is. The role of a bishop is to be a successor of the apostles and to preserve and teach the deposit of faith as found in Scripture and Sacred Tradition. That's why episcopal consecrations involve laying on of hands, there is an objective handing on of the apostolic Tradition down through the ages. Why can't these people simply admit that they are inventing a new religion out of whole cloth, and simply have an amicable divorce with orthodox Christian believers in their denomination?