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  • The Reformers would easily have been able to continue this so-called Apostolical succession through the Prussian bishops who went over to them.

    Life of Luther Julius Koestlin

  • These sectaries, whose only ground of estrangement from Rome was the question of administering the cup to the laity, and who had never thought of separating themselves from the so-called Apostolical succession of the episcopate in the Catholic Church, Luther then hoped, albeit in vain, to win over to a genuine evangelical belief and practice of religion.

    Life of Luther Julius Koestlin

  • These sectaries, whose only ground of estrangement from Rome was the question of administering the cup to the laity, and who had never thought of separating themselves from the so-called Apostolical succession of the episcopate in the Catholic Church, Luther then hoped, albeit in vain, to win over to a genuine evangelical belief and practice of religion.

    Life of Martin Luther Koestlin, Julius 1881

  • The Reformers would easily have been able to continue this so-called Apostolical succession through the Prussian bishops who went over to them.

    Life of Martin Luther Koestlin, Julius 1881

  • The perpetuation of the ministry, by means of a divinely instituted ceremonial for conferring the sacred character of minister of Christ in its various grades, is called Apostolical succession, an is justly regarded as one of the marks of the Church of Christ.

    The True Church, Indicated to the Inquirer. A Brief Tract for Circulation 1862

  • The ancient canons, termed Apostolical, and, though admitted not to have been drawn up by the Apostles themselves, yet certainly a work of the first ages, by some even attributed to St. Clement.

    The True Church, Indicated to the Inquirer. A Brief Tract for Circulation 1862

  • "Let there be a meeting of the bishops twice a year," says the thirty-seventh of the so-called Apostolical

    The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution 1854

  • The work which we have already examined, called The Apostolical

    Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary James Endell Tyler 1820

  • "any to live thereon not believing or professing the three Christian creeds commonly called the Apostolical, Athanasian, and Nicene".

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • This Prayer of the Forty Hours, practised often in one church or other at various times of the year out of devotion, was established for ever by Pope Clement VIII in 1592 for the whole course of the year, in a regular prescribed continuous succession from one church in Rome to another, commencing on the first Sunday in Advent with the chapel in the Apostolical Palace.

    The Institution of the Eucharist 2009

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