There are four ecclesiastical offices: baptized believers, Deacons, Presbyters and Bishops (where in Basileia those consecrated with episcopal authority are called Consecrated Abbots). All offices are of equal value or authority but different in function. Each office is a governing office in the sense that all believers have equal value but different roles in binding and loosing. There is no binding and loosing that advances the Kingdom that happens outside of the Church or that can be exercised by those who are not ecclesiastically accountable to exercise their authority according to the Apostolic Rule of Faith. Therefore, all ecclesiastical authority is rightly and properly exercised by the integration of all four ecclesiastical offices.
Also see Binding and Loosing, Consensus Decision-Making, and Equal Value and Different Functions.