[pgyanke]

So if the Bible says "a bishop must be the husband of one wife" and some person or organization tells me "a bishop must not be the husband of one wife", then I know that the latter is full of it.

I get your dig. There is another possibility, though... that you are wrong in your interpretation. As the Catholic Church understands the Apostolic Succession, St Paul was a Bishop in the Church. He was not married. He even went so far as to call that condition a blessing!

This passage of Scripture is not a command to be married, rather it is a prohibition against multiple marriages. The Church rightly understands it in a number of scenarios but one is interesting: the condition of a man whose wife dies. He may become a priest and then a bishop. He has had but one wife. However, if he were to remarry and then she also died, he would not now be a good candidate for the celibate life. Why? In his remarriage, he showed his commitment to that Sacrament and demonstrated his greater desire to not be celibate. It is a logical position.

[Sloth]

As the Catholic Church understands the Apostolic Succession, St Paul was a Bishop in the Church. He was not married. He even went so far as to call that condition a blessing!

I will accept this line of argument if you can show me where Paul is ever referred to as a bishop in Scripture.

This passage of Scripture is not a command to be married, rather it is a prohibition against multiple marriages.

If it is not a command to be married, then what do you make of the need, expressed a couple of verses later, to assess the man's performance in raising his own children in evaluating his fitness for the office of bishop?