In his book Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places, Eugene Peterson recounts the story of the fourth century church father Gregory of Nyssa whose brother Basil had arranged for him to be made bishop of Cappadocia.
"Gregory objected," Peterson writes.
"He didn't want to be stuck in such an out-of-the-way place.
His brother told him he didn't want Gregory to obtain distinction from his church but to confer distinction upon it."