[ an] important volume...Norton's fine study provides a welcome addition to scholarship while also pointing toward further fruitful avenues of investigation...Norton has provided the best overview of the topic available, and his book will serve as a point reference for all subsequent investigations of episcopal elections in late antiquity. * S.W.J Keough Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses * lucidly written and cogently argued * Adam A.J. DeVille Logos: A Journal of Early Christian Studies * this is a thorough work, which marshals the evidence for its thesis convincingly and well. * Robin Ward, Journal of Theological Studies *