According to Protestants, isn't the bishop of Rome still a bishop nonetheless?
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As a lifelong Protestant, by baptism into the Church of Scotland at the age of five, sixty three years ago, by baptism into that which is called Protestant and Evangelical at the age of sixteen and by further acceptance into fellowship, in adulthood, I would say the following :
It is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick (επισκοπην, episcopen) let another take. Acts 1:20 [KJV]
When Judas, by covetousness and betrayal fell, not only was he, himself, regarded as a transgressor, but his office was removed from him and another took that office. Initially, it was taken (by lot) by Matthias, then (arguably) by James the Lord's brother, but (finally and most suitably) by Paul the Apostle.
Who was sent, not to baptise (as he says himself in Galatians) nor to administer the 'Eucharist' but he was sent to preach the gospel, unashamedly, wherein is the righteousness of God (not man) revealed. Romans 1:17.
That Judas went and hanged himself, is irrelevant. His bishoprick had already been removed from him.
The Reformation rejected the whole idea of Jesus Christ being conveyed by a ritualistic sacrament (in bread and wine) and centred on the preaching of the gospel and on justification by faith.
Those who rejected the Reformation were, themselves, rejected by the Reformation. Not only their person was rejected but the office which they held.
There is no place in Protestantism for priests. They are redundant. Redundant by two thousand years, as it happens. And Jesus Christ, himself, is exalted as Priest - alone.
Neither is there any place for a bishop to govern priests - since there are no priests. Nor is there a Mass for bishops to monitor and govern. Nor any 'presence' of Christ in material artefacts to administer.
The whole thing has gone - lock, stock and bishoprick.
But a born again, justified, overseeing elder - now that's another thing !
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