Apostolic succession

England was represented by Duduc, Bishop of Wells, himself a Lotharingian, Wulfric, Abbot of St. Augustine's Canterbury, and Elfwine, Abbot of Ramsey.

One of the first acts of the council was to declare that the Pope alone had the right to be called the Apostolic Primate of the Church Universal, and the Archbishop of St. James of Compostela, who had arrogated the title of Apostolic, was excommunicated.

Twelve canons were passed for the better ordering of the Church.

They forbade simony and enjoined freedom of election by clergy and people to ecclesiastical offices.

The Christian population, had it been united, might easily have overcome them, but it lacked a central power.

Sancho the Great, king of Castile and Navarre, 1030, seemed likely to become such a leader, but he died in 1035, and his kingdom was partitioned between his sons.

The stronger of these, Ferdinand I, was a vigorous assailant of the Arabs, a friend of the church, and a patron of the Cluniacs, but he would not render unqualified obedience to Rome and receive the censure of Leo IX for supporting the Archbishop of Compostela in his pretensions to the title of Apostolic Primate.

His nephew, Sancho Ramirez, defeated the Arabs in Aragon in 1065 with the aid of William, Duke of Aquitaine, and married a sister of Count Ebolo of Roussi near Reims.

Jesus had contact, physical contact with them.

There's something called apostolic succession.

It exists.

You can't, you can't deny it.

Our Lord's promises about the church.

And within the world of Sedevacantism, there's a massive ecclesiological problem, because our Lord established a visible, indefectible church, and that is built around St. Peter and Apostolic Succession.

Now I know what they're going to say.

They're going to say, well, there have been periods of vacancy.

With that in mind, I'm always very careful with how I speak about our fellow apostolic brothers and sisters, because we're not in full unity.

But that doesn't mean, Edgar, that they no longer have valid sacraments.

Why? Because they have retained apostolic succession.

They have validly ordained bishops.

He says, yes, we ourselves find it difficult to refute it.

Refute what, is he saying? He's saying that the Pope and his crowd cry out against us that they are the church, okay? We are the church because no matter how you want to go about it, Apostolic succession comes through Peter and Christ's disciples, right? And his successors.

St. Irenaeus lists the successors of Peter.

I'm going to pull that up later.

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What exactly is an Anglican? Are Anglicans Protestant or Catholic? Why do they have priests and bishops? What is apostolic succession? Why follow a liturgy? What is the Book of Common Prayer? What do Anglicans believe about baptism and communion? How does Anglican theology compare with Presbyterianism, Lutheran, Reformed theology, Baptist, Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and modern evangelical Christianity? They go on.

Father Ricky is uniquely suited for this conversation.

He holds a Bible degree and an MDiv and has studied at Reformed Episcopal Seminary, and he serves within the Reformed Episcopal tradition.

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It does.

He added, he's hinting at apostolic succession.

So is that kind of what you mean by that patristic lineage? Yeah.

When someone is declared a bishop, unless they are excommunicated, they are always a bishop.

And this whole system of bishops in apostolic succession is to remain until Christ returns.

Now, even though bishops submit the resignation as the leader of their diocese at a specific age, they don't stop being a bishop even though they no longer lead a particular diocese.

Section 21 explains that the bishops, along with the priests as their assistants, act in the person of Christ.