The Appointment as the Only Power of the Bishop

I can understand the appoinment is a power, but it is not the only power the Bishop has. It is in fact the lowest form of authority for our Bishop. It has however, become the most important form of power Bishops use. At least, people seem to think so because everybody seems to be deathly afraid of the Bishop moving them and sending them to the great beyond. It seems to me it has been used with great efficiency in order to prove authority and power by Bishops. Do we really need more of this kind of cheap and petty power mongering? I don't think so. For me, manipulating appointments is not the key role of the Bishop!

For me the key role of the Bishop is to safeguard the sanctity of our beliefs and theology from false doctrines and teachings! What if our Bishops started using all that power to discipline churches in the way it was intended. What if they started dealing with the pastors teaching untruths from the pulpit? This would be a positive and helpful use of their power instead of using it to make churches pony up or fall in rank politically. Isn't that the real reason we gave the Bishops all that power in the first place...so they can protect the church from false teachers and lies taught from the pulpit? The Bishops have completely and utterly failed us in this way! Not only do our Bishops seem to give a rip about the fundamental beliefs of our faith, they are often the ones trying to push for us to scrap them. Once again...the foxes are guarding the hen house.