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Ads by Google      Apostolic Succession - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In Christianity, the doctrine of Apostolic Succession (or the belief that the Church is 'apostolic') maintains that the Christian Church today is the spiritual successor of the Church of the Apostles. In Catholic and Orthodox theology, the unbrokenness of apostolic succession is significant because of Jesus Christ's promise that the "gates of hell" (Matthew 16:18) would not prevail against the Church, and his promise that he himself would be with the apostles to "the end of the age" (Matthew 28:20). Further, proponents of the necessity of the personal apostolic succession of bishops within the Church point to the universal practice of the undivided early Church (up to 431 CE), from which, as organizations, the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and the Assyrian Churches are all indisputably directly descended. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostolic_Succession   (2054 words)      CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Apostolicity Apostolicity, then, is that Apostolic succession by which the Church of today is one with the Church of the Apostles in origin, doctrine, and mission. Apostolicity of mission means that the Church is one moral body, possessing the mission entrusted by Jesus Christ to the Apostles, and transmitted through them and their lawful successors in an unbroken chain to the present representatives of Christ upon earth. Apostolicity is the mark by which the Church of today is recognized as identical with the Church founded by Jesus Christ upon the Apostles. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01648b.htm   (1546 words)      Succession - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Apostolic Succession is the lineage from the apostles to current bishops. The Roman Catholic Church is often claimed to be the only Christian church with valid Apostolic succession and many Protestant Churches do not claim it. Examples would be sand dunes and lava flows. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succession   (500 words)      CCLEC Publications -- Apostolic Succession To them, the succession has no meaning apart from the fullness of the faith, and the succession is the Church's God-given means for the orderly transmission, within the communion of the whole Church and by the whole Church through her previously admitted ministers, of apostolic ministerial authority. Thus, apart from wishes that the Church's apostolic ministry had been given in some other way or form, we are on safe ground in asserting that the three-fold ministry of bishops, priests, and deacons is the authoritative pastoral and teaching ministry of the Apostolic Church. By comparison, a faithful pastor outside of the apostolic order of the Church may hold, with the exception of the matter of order, the complete apostolic faith and be a blessing to his people. http://www.episcopalian.org/cclec/column7.htm   (1484 words)      APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION Apostolic succession is an indispensable factor in preserving unity in the Church. Those in that suc­cession are accountable to it, and are responsible to ensure that all teaching and practice in the Church is in keeping with her apostolic foundations. APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION has been a water­shed issue since the second century, not as a mere dogma, but as crucial to the preservation of the Faith. http://www.antiochian.org/1123706286   (249 words)      CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Apostolic Succession That Apostolic succession is found in the Catholic Church. Most of the repudiatae Apostolic succession as a mark of the true Church; they glory in their separation. The Thirty-nine Articles teach the Lutheran doctrine of justification by faith alone, deny purgatory, reduce the seven sacraments to two, insist on the fallibility of the Church, establish the king's supremacy, and deny the pope's jurisdiction in England. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01641a.htm   (2478 words)      Successors of the Apostles (This Rock: July-August 2001) Due to bishops' role as the successors of the apostles, possession of a valid episcopacy is necessary for a church to claim apostolic succession. The doctrine of apostolic succession-central to the Catholic Church's identity with the Church founded by Jesus in the first century-involves there being an unbroken line of bishops from the beginning of Christian history to the present. This group is known today as the bishops, who are the successors of the apostles as the highest shepherds of the earthly Church. http://www.catholic.com/thisrock/2001/0107bt.asp   (1556 words)      Apostolic Succession The Christian Doctrine affirming the significance of the connection of the bishops with the Apostles is referred to as "Apostolic Succession". Bishops who can trace their consecrations organically through the laying on of hands back to the Apostles are considered to be in "Apostolic Succession." Christ entrusted the continuation of His ministry to the Apostles, who in turn became founders and leaders of the first communities of Christ’s followers. A traceable lineage was articulated as the foundation for the authenticity and unity of Faith in the communities of Historic Christianity. http://www.aocc.org/apostolic.htm   (370 words)      (United Reform Catholic Church of Honolulu - Kaneohe, HI) Apostolic Succession Validity Bishop Chuck Leigh is the Pastor of Christ the Servant Apostolic Catholic Church; Bishop of the Apostolic Catholic Church, Diocese of Florida; and Dean of the College of Judicatory Leaders of the Florida Council of Churches. He served as the Patriarch of the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church from 1945 to 1961. Realizing that their execution would literally end the Russian Orthodox Apostolic Succession, Archbishop Sergius asked to be given half an hour of prayer with his bishops and Mr. http://www.unitedreformcatholicchurch.com/mjkimokeawe   (3737 words)      Bishops of the Inclusive Orthodox Church Apostolic Succession Although the Inclusive Orthodox Church (IOC) holds collateral apostolic successions of various Oriental Orthodox Christian churches, the bishops of the IOC specifically denounce the teachings of Monophysitism. In Christian doctrine apostolic succession asserts that, by the grace of God, the chosen successors of the apostles hold the same authority, powers, and responsibilities as Jesus gave to the apostles. Consistent with this doctrine, the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church is not simply a collectivity of individual churches. http://www.inclusiveorthodox.org/aposuc.htm   (524 words)      Apostolic Succession The principal line of apostolic succession of the Church of Antioch comes from the Roman Catholic Church, through the Dutch Old Catholic Church and the Liberal Catholic Church in England. The validity of apostolic succession is a key factor in determining the sacerdotal powers of the Church. The Church of Antioch lays claim to apostolic primacy in many of the most signficant of the independent Catholic and Orthodox lines of succession in North America. http://www.concentric.net/~Cosmas/apostolicsuccession.htm   (280 words)      Apostolic Johannite Church :: An Esoteric Gnostic Christian Communion with Valid Apostolic Succession The Patriarch of the Apostolic Johannite Church and Sovereign Triad of the EGCH ordain Fr. The Conclave of The Apostolic Johannite Church is an international and annual meeting of clergy. The Apostolic Johannite Church is pleased to announce the appointment of Father Ken Madden as Vicar General for the Apostolic Johannite Church http://www.johannite.org/news.html   (183 words)      Apostolic Succession in the PNCC The doctrine of Apostolic Succession means that according to the institution of Christ the Bishops succeed one another in an unbroken chain from Christ Himself through His apostles and their successors, the Bishops of the Church, and reach down to the episcopate of the present day. The doctrine of the Polish National Catholic Church is founded on the Holy Scriptures, the Holy Traditions, and the dogmatic decisions of the first Seven Ecumenical Councils. The fundamental principles of the Polish National Catholic Church are based upon the Holy Scriptures as the true rule of faith, but interpretation of the same is based not upon individual private judgment, but upon the competent canonical authority of the Church. http://www.bvmc.org/history/apostolic_sucession.html   (1679 words)      Rejection of Pascal's Wager: The Apostolic Succession: Polycarp and Clement We have seen earlier that the claims of apostolic authorship of the New Testament and the closeness of most of the apostolic fathers to the apostles are spurious. For this is the manner in which the apostolic churches transmit their registers: as the church of Smyrna, which records that Polycarp was placed therein by John... For this is the manner in which the apostolic churches transmit their registers...as also the church of Rome, which makes Clement to have been ordained in like manner by Peter. http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/apostolic.html   (5931 words)      [No title] The apostolic FAITH as held and taught by the Apostles. The One, Holy, Catholic, Orthodox and Apostolic Church of our Lord, Savior and God Jesus Christ can never be de-constituted as the Church because she is divided, weak and/or failing in some part or in some aspect. Both aspects, both the Western and the Eastern understanding, doctrine and Faith, of the undivided church comprise the whole truth of what Apostolic Succession was, and is, to the church as a whole. http://www.evangelicalorthodoxcatholic.org/episcop.html   (2055 words)      Apostles Can become Bishops (Apostolic Succession) 'Apostolic succession' refers to the overseers -- episkopos -- the office established by the Apostles to be their successors (but not their equals!) thereby ensuring the preservation of the Holy Catholic and Orthodox Faith -- 'the faith which was once delivered unto the saints' [Jude 1:3]. This was to be the case in all Christendom, east and west, until Luther transferred this power to the secular princes in the 16th century, and the Anabaptist tradition eschewed ecclesiastical office either altogether or in large part. But this belief of the Catholic Church (along with Eastern Orthodoxy and Anglicanism) is also grounded in Scripture: St. Paul teaches us (Ephesians 2:20) that the Church is built on the foundation of the apostles, whom Christ Himself chose (John 6:70, Acts 1:2,13; cf. http://ic.net/~erasmus/RAZ262.HTM   (882 words)      Apostolic Succession Apostolicity should be measured by scripture and how closely a person or group seeks to live as Jesus Christ lived, for we should be doers of the word as well as hearers of the word. They are martyrs and heroes of the faith, and I proudly include them in my lines of apostolic succession--true apostolic succession being an adherence to the apostolic faith as taught by Jesus Christ and the apostles and found in sacred scripture. It will not be so in the Celtic Anabaptist Communion; all are considered to have apostolic succession who follow the faith of the apostles as revealed in scripture. http://www.celtic-anabaptist-ministries.com/apostolic.html   (5675 words)      The Greek Schism and Apostolic Succession While such Christian brethren in schism have a valid priesthood and a valid sacrifice of the Mass (divine liturgy) and all the sacraments, it is nonetheless the will of Jesus Christ that all his followers be perfectly one in authority as well as in doctrines of faith and morals. "The apostolic succession of the ministry concerns the whole church, but is not something which derives from the church taken as a whole but rather from Christ to the apostles and from the apostles to all bishops to the end of time." The church, therefore, has judged that ordination, given and received in the understanding she herself has of it, is necessary to apostolic succession in the strict sense of the word. http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/history/world/wh0064.html   (4599 words)      apostolic succession on Encyclopedia.com APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION [apostolic succession] in Christian theology, the doctrine asserting that the chosen successors of the apostles enjoyed through God's grace the same authority, power, and responsibility as was conferred upon the apostles by Jesus. For the Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Anglican churches, this link with the apostles is what guarantees for them their authority in matters of faith, morals, and the valid administration of sacraments. Protestants (other than Anglican) see the authority given to the apostles as unique, proper to them alone, and hence reject any doctrine of a succession of their power. http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/a1/apostS1uc.asp   (432 words)      Apostolic Succession He was immediately consecrated coadjutor bishop by, Bishop Carlos Duarte Costa.  In 1958, Bishop Ferris, a married Catholic Apostolic bishop returned to the Roman Catholic church under Pope Pius XII. he left the Roman Catholic Church and was incardinated into the Catholic Apostolic Church of Brazil. Salameo Ferraz was born in Sao Paolo Brazil in the latter part of the  nineteenth century.  He was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1935.  On August 15, 1945 http://www.cecofcanada.org/index_files/Page702.html   (383 words)      Domestic-Church.Com: Articles: Apostolic Succession: The question of apostolic succession is at the heart of many arguments in defense of 'the One True Church.' Is the Catholic Church the faithful continuance of the church founded by Christ? It seems that if the apostolic sucession of the Church ended with the apostles then so would have the teaching authority. According to the Gospels, the apostles were give the necessary authority to train teachers to spread the faith. http://www.domestic-church.com/CONTENT.DCC/19990301/ARTICLES/apostolic.htm   (580 words)      Unofficial Home Page of The One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church In the Indian subcontinent, Anglicans merged with non-Apostolic Protestant denominations to form four united Churches, the Church of North India, and the Church of South India, the Church of Pakistan, and the Church of Bangladesh. Actively engaged in ecumenism with all the larger segments of the Apostolic Church. The Charismatic Episcopal Church began from an non-apostolic pastor was ordained simultaneously by bishops in the Orthodox, Anglican and Old Catholic apostolic successions. http://www.nestorian.org/unofficial_home_page_of_the_on.html   (2369 words)      HTC: The Significance of Apostolic Succession in Heterodoxy Pt. 1 The Church understands Apostolic succession not merely as an external mechanical transfer of the very act of ordination but also the faith connected with this act namely the preservation of the Apostolic teaching on the grace of priesthood within a given group. Thus it would be closer to the truth and to the teaching of the Church to assume that where, outside the Church, the Apostolic succession, i.e. the Apostolic form of ordination and the Apostolic teaching about the grace of the priesthood has been preserved, there in the mind of the Church, ordination is not simply a form without grace and thus is not repeated in receiving such clerics into the Orthodox priesthood. http://www.holy-trinity.org/ecclesiology/succession-1.html   (4022 words)      The Apostolic Succession of The Anglican Mission in America Although the Lutheran bishop is not strictly needed for the Apostolic Succession, the Lutheran bishop brings the prayers, the authority, the recognition, and the blessings of thousands of fellow Christians. This is why the links in the chain of the Apostolic Succession often pass through the highest church office, but not all consecrations as bishop occur there. Then he would say, "The key to being in line with the Apostles is to be in agreement with the Apostolic truth, which is the Gospel and the message of the Holy Scriptures." (see Galatians 1:8-9). http://www.theistic-evolution.com/succession.html   (7198 words)      The Ancient Apostolic Communion - ApostolicWiki The Ancient Apostolic Communion is a new Independent denomination in the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ. We are apostolic in the sense that all our priest and bishops have Apostolic Succession that can be traced back to the Apostles. The Ancient Apostolic Communion is not like any of the mainstream churches in a lot of ways. http://www.taac.us   (456 words)      Apostolic Succession: a primer This "Doctrine of Orders" in regards to "Apostolic Succession", helped Constantine out of one immediate political problem, (how to keep the One Church united) but in the past 1685 years, this doctrine has continued to both build and to undercut the authority of the Roman Church in the One Catholic Church. Most of the 16 th Century Reformed Churches which emerged during the Protestant Reformation did not base the authority of their leadership on bishops with apostolic succession, except for the Church of England. This means, from this perspective they could still "validly" ordain and consecrate priests, bishops and confirm children even if they were not "orthodox" in their own lives and beliefs. http://www.cinemaparallel.com/apostolic.succession.html   (1457 words)      Newman on Apostolic Succession And this is all it shows; it does nothing for them; for, their succession, not professing to come from GOD, has no power to restrain any fanatic from setting up to preach of his own will, and a people with itching ears choosing for themselves a teacher. We know that the succession of Bishops, and ordination from them, was the invariable doctrine and rule of the early Christians. I have now given some slight suggestions by way of evidence for the doctrine of the Apostolical Succession, from Scripture, the nature of the case, and the conduct of Dissenters. http://landru.i-link-2.net/shnyves/newman_apostolic_succes.htm   (1017 words)      apostolic succession --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia The claim of the Roman Catholic Church to be the one legitimate continuation of the community established by Jesus Christ is based on apostolic succession. The officers of the church, the bishops, are a college (organized group or... According to this doctrine, bishops possess certain special powers handed down to them from the Apostles; these consist primarily of the right to confirm church members, to ordain priests, to consecrate other bishops, and to rule over the clergy... http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-9008051   (701 words)      The Apostolic Succession in the Gnostic Church of St. Mary Magdalene The Apostolic Succession is the most ancient spiritual lineage that can be traced through history. The Apostolic Succession in the Gnostic Church of St. Mary Magdalene It is from Bishop Barberini that the Roman Succession from Peter branches off from the Bishops of Rome. http://magdalene.wise1.com/succession.html   (1011 words)      The Primacy of Peter, the Papacy and Apostolic Succession << Cyprian consequently, at least for the latter part of his ministry, rejected the premise that the Roman church had primacy among the apostolic churches. << The very cornerstone of the apostolic rule of faith is built upon the presumption that the true faith was entrusted to the apostles, and they in turn appointed bishops and elders in the churches they established. Was Rome, by apostolic command, to have primacy amongst the churches? http://www.bringyou.to/apologetics/a87.htm   (15456 words)      Apostolic Succession 3 The Apostolic Constitutions (VIII,46) relate that he consecrated one Anienusas the first bishop of Alexandria and a second See where Abilios was consecrated by Saint Luke the Evangelist to serve the people there. This was originally within the Patriarchate of Antioch, but afterwards it became a "catholicate" within the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church under the Patriarch of Etchmiadzine, the "Supreme Catholicos" of all the Armenians. Our faith and practice continues by a return to earlier forms and a strict adherence to the apostolic faith which is our rudder. http://www.angelfire.com/alt/scm/as3.html   (3416 words)      The false doctrine of Roman Catholic apostolic succession! The alleged Catholic doctrine of "apostolic succession" is not taught in the Bible. Legates, nuncious, internucious, and apostolic delegates are representatives of the Holy Father. Paul mirrors the faith of the Apostolic Church when he writes: 'God hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation.' (II Cor. http://www.bible.ca/cath-apostolic-succession.htm   (13282 words)      On Apostolic Succession The claim of apostolic authority is foundational to the Catholic Church's claims to being the church established by Christ, that her pope is the head of the universal Christian church. By the Apostolic succession is meant that priests and bishops have received the Apostolic authority through an unbroken line of Popes from St. Peter to Benedict XV. The mythology of the Catholic Church informs that the Apostle Peter was the first of the unbroken line of popes in what it calls the Apostolic Succession: http://www.sxws.com/charis/pope-20.htm   (1761 words)      Apostolic Succession of The Evangelical Catholic Church The Apostolic Succession obtained by the Philippine Independent Church was that of PECUSA - from The Church of England. It was still The One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church of Christ Jesus for the Filipino faithful. The Evangelical Catholic Church possesses both a valid Apostolic Succession and a faithful transmission of The Gospel in all its truth and purity. http://members.aol.com/BpBarwin/index.HTML   (14162 words)      apostolic succession the unbroken line of succession beginning with the apostles and perpetuated through bishops, considered essential for orders and sacraments to be valid. http://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/apostolic+succession   (39 words)      Apostolic Succession The three primary lines of Apostolic Succession enjoyed by the Church of the Culdees are the Antiochian - Jacobite; the Roman - Old Catholic; and the Jewish - Celtic. KILGOUR as Bishop of Aberdeen, who was consecrated on the 12th of February 1775 by Bishop Frederick Corwallis, who himself was consecrated on the 19th of February 1750 by Bishop Thomas Herring. It is from Bishop Barerini that the Roman Succession from Peter branches off from the Bishops of Rome. http://www.continet.com/culdee/ap.html   (1426 words)      ECF Apostolic Succession For this is the way in which the apostolic Churches transmit their lists: like the Church of the Smyrnaeans, which records that Polycarp was placed there by John; like the Church of the Romans where Clement was ordained by Peter. For if the Apostles had known hidden mysteries which they taught to the elite secretly and apart from the rest, they would have handed them down especially to those very ones to whom they were committing the self-same Churches. Then let all heresies prove how they regard themselves as apostolic, when they are challenged by our Churches to meet either test. http://www.staycatholic.com/ecf_apostolic_succession.htm   (450 words)      Apostolic Succession of Archbishop Russ McClanahan The other being a direct Anglican line being traced through the Continuing Anglican Church (Anglican Church U.S.A.), the Protestant Episcopal Church, to the See of Canterbury. as Primate of the American Catholic Orthodox Church, Petrine Antiochian Succession. within the Metropolitan-Archbishops of Albania, the Armenian Catholicate-Patriarchate of Cilicia, Patriarchate of Moscow, Greek Melkite Patriarchate of Antioch, the Catholic - Patriarchate of Assyria, Old Catholic Succession, the Holy Russian Orthodox Synod as well as many others. http://www.theceec.org/Russuccession.htm   (819 words)      Apostolic Succession in the Roman Catholic Church However, there are several Eastern Catholic bishops who belong to the Rebiban succession and there are some Roman-rite bishops who belong to the Maronite and Chaldean lineages. I have been engaged in research on apostolic succession and episcopal lineages for more than forty years, in collaboration with colleagues in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. http://mysite.verizon.net/res7gdmc/aposccs   (1079 words)      Apostolic Succession - Carlos Duarte Costa bishops from which Old Catholic bishops now hold succession. Please note that Bishop Carlos Duarte Costa consecrated many other http://www.concentric.net/~Cosmas/apos_success_duarte_costa.htm   (185 words)      Apostolic Succession The theory of apostolic succession posited that first there was “Plenty of Room”; then there was much interest in it; and finally that caused the birth of nanotechnology. I think of this as a question of apostolic succession: did Feynman set the intellectual parameters of nanotechnology in “Plenty of Room” in such a way that those who came after him have traced their own legitimacy to that text by consciously and deliberately executing his vision? If a person thinks that nanotech began with “Plenty of Room,” then later developments can be retroactively appreciated as fulfillments of Feynman’s vision, which is to say that certain important people might not have thought what they thought, and might not have done what they did, if he had not bequeathed it to us. http://pr.caltech.edu/periodicals/EandS/articles/LXVIII1_2/apostolic.html   (4638 words)      Apostolic Succession of the UAOC Click here to View Apostolic Succession Document 1. 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