Together, the works reassert Paul's apostolic authority, legitimately mandated to the papacy. |
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The distortions of the Marcionites, Gnostics, and Montanists were carefully examined under the criteria of apostolic testimony. |
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The apostolic administrator of the prelature was eventually released unharmed. |
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An apostolic vicariate is led by a vicar apostolic, usually nowadays a titular bishop. |
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Upon the resignation of Bishop Kinold as vicar apostolic in 1941, Monsignor Toda Tatewaki became administrator apostolic. |
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By the early 1590s it was accepted that a full hierarchy was impossible and a more ad hoc system of vicars apostolic adopted. |
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This meant in practice that papal letters appointing vicars apostolic were not be acknowledged. |
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This vicar apostolic would report to the office in Rome called the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith. |
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Apart from 14 encyclicals, 41 apostolic letters and 19 motu proprios, he has also published a large number of books. |
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Pope John Paul II has written 14 encyclicals, 14 apostolic exhortations, 11 apostolic constitutions, 43 apostolic letters, and 28 motu proprios. |
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The situation of the Monophysites, who defied a General Council of the undivided, apostolic church, marked them as heretics. |
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The essential apostolic office is that of the bishop, an office intimately associated with the person and ministry of Jesus Christ. |
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There were questions about the papacy and apostolic succession, about sin and grace, about the authority of Scripture and tradition. |
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That continuity is rooted in apostolic succession, by which the whole mystery of Christ is handed on through the bishops. |
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It was bombarded with complaints from the nuncio, the apostolic administrator for the diocese and other senior clerics. |
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Later this year, the Vatican is expected to begin an apostolic visitation of U.S. seminaries. |
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Bulgarians have expressed a positive attitude towards the Papal apostolic visit. |
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In Divini Amoris Scientia, his apostolic letter announcing the doctorate, the Pope goes even further. |
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Paul admitted that boasting over his apostolic credentials made him a fool. |
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In this ultimo tempo, the paths of Peter and his apostolic twin, Judas, cross and ultimately diverge. |
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The early church was established by apostolic writing as well as apostolic preaching. |
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Though it is little used today, especially since we have the completed Word of God, it was evident in the New Testament apostolic times. |
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Most of them accepted tradition and creeds only as they contained and were in agreement with the apostolic witness. |
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The apostolic message is that healing space was created through the Christ on the cross as God's response to human violence. |
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He believes episcopacy to be of apostolic origin and to have received divine approbation, if not direct command. |
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Here he saw and put into practice the task of exegesis as listening to the text as apostolic testimony to divine address. |
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The danger of false apostles and Paul's legitimate apostolic authority are the initial concerns expressed in his Epistle to the Galatians. |
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In the apostolic era many women are mentioned as apostles, leaders of house churches, prophets, deacons, and so on. |
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In this spiritual and apostolic journey, St. Paul, an apostle of Gentiles, is the model for our lives. |
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First, though, the pope's body is lying in state for private viewing in the apostolic palace in the Vatican. |
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Not the best poetry you've ever heard, but it is pristine apostolic reformational doctrine, because the end point of justifying righteousness is conformity to the Saviour. |
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The apophatic dimension is well taken, but what I missed here was affirmation of what is actually given in the apostolic faith and discussion of the limits of diversity. |
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There is ample evidence from apostolic times, from the patristic, canonical and liturgical tradition, well into the Byzantine period that this order was held in high honor. |
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When the Lord commissioned Peter to be a leader of the apostolic church, he presented his role not as commander-in-chief or company executive but as a provider of food. |
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He who does not bring or teach apostolic doctrine ought not to be received by the Church which is built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets. |
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The priest is the ordained representative of the bishop and, as such, the most visible apostolic link between the local community and the universal church. |
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As apostolic nuncio, he automatically became dean of the diplomatic corps. |
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After serving as apostolic delegate to Greece and Turkey from 1935 and as papal nuncio in liberated France from 1944, in 1953 he became a cardinal and Patriarch of Venice. |
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A private viewing was held at the apostolic palace in the Vatican. |
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The Church is built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets and there are no apostles and prophets today nor is there any such thing as an apostolic succession. |
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How non-Methodists react to his innovations no doubt depends on their attachment to the ancient creeds and to the apostolic succession which they express. |
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This they affirmed to be the very body of Christ, the locus of holiness, the society of saints, guaranteed by the unquestioned apostolic succession of their bishops. |
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An encouraging and positive General Assembly passed into history on the Thursday evening with the singing of Psalm 122 and the apostolic benediction. |
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A key figure here was the unscrupulous careerist Henri Costerius, a protonotary apostolic eager for a bishopric, who as a Borghese client, had powerful friends in Rome. |
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From 1688, despite the danger to the individuals appointed, Rome chose men of piety, integrity, sacrifice and learning to act as vicars apostolic to areas of Britain. |
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It is clear, however, that dioceses which are still administered by prefects or vicars apostolic are held to have been uninterrupted by the Reformation. |
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Archbishop Diarmuid Martin had talks with the Papal Nuncio, Archbishop Giuseppe Lazzarotto, ten days ago at the apostolic nunciature in the Navan Road in Dublin. |
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The Vatican has not had diplomatic relations with China since 1951 when the communist government expelled its apostolic nuncio, or papal ambassador. |
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It is succession in a Church which witnesses to the apostolic faith, in communion with the other Churches, witnesses of the same apostolic faith. |
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On November 4, 2009, Pope Benedict signed an apostolic constitution, Anglicanorum coetibus. |
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Currently the bishops of the Assyrian Church of the East continue to maintain its apostolic succession. |
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The Oriental Orthodox Churches affirm the ideas of apostolic succession and episcopal government. |
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The New Testament consists of writings of the apostles and a very few other authors writing within apostolic times. |
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Bishops are considered to derive their authority from an unbroken, personal apostolic succession from the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. |
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The Episcopal Church is an apostolic church, tracing its bishops back to the apostles via holy orders. |
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In the article he asserts that pedobaptism was the practice of the apostolic church. |
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Each of the doctrines found in this creed can be traced to statements current in the apostolic period. |
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Members of institutes of consecrated life and societies of apostolic life are clerics only if they have received Holy Orders. |
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After an intense apostolic activity in Italy, in 1219 Francis went to Egypt with the Fifth Crusade, to announce the Gospel to the Saracens. |
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The sources for the beliefs of the apostolic community include the Gospels and New Testament Epistles. |
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There was a total of 572 Vatican citizens, of whom 352 were not residents, mainly apostolic nuncios and diplomatic staff. |
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He lists the apostolic body and the Holy Spirit as both being efficient and formal causes of the Church. |
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The church teaches that all duly consecrated bishops have a lineal succession from the apostles of Christ, known as apostolic succession. |
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In antiquity, some began to ascribe it to Paul in an attempt to provide the anonymous work an explicit apostolic pedigree. |
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According to Orthodox tradition, the apostolic successor to Saint Andrew is the Patriarch of Constantinople. |
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Vatican ambassadors are referred to as nuncios and a Vatican embassy is known as a nunziatura apostolica or apostolic nunciature. |
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However, most Methodists view apostolic succession outside its high church sense. |
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In ordination, the Church affirms and continues the apostolic ministry through persons empowered by the Holy Spirit. |
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The Church claims apostolic succession as a legacy of the old Unity of the Brethren. |
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Denominations within the Latter Day Saint movement preach the necessity of apostolic succession and claim it through the process of restoration. |
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Among the original champions of Protestantism who rejected the doctrine of apostolic succession were John Calvin, and Martin Luther. |
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The pope, therefore, continued to appoint apostolic vicars for the Netherlands. |
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The prophetic and apostolic Scriptures are authentic as written by the prophets and apostles. |
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The bull concludes with the usual declaration of the authority of an apostolic letter. |
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These lay apostolates provide support and formation to their members as well as a venue for organized apostolic work. |
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He brandished his title as apostolic commissioner in court, and as supervisor of the papal decima in Tuscany. |
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Most Lutheran churches in Scandinavian countries are favorable to the traditional doctrine of apostolic succession. |
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Its claim to apostolic succession is rooted in the Church of England's evolution as part of the Western Church. |
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Thus, apostolic succession is necessary for the valid celebration of the sacraments. |
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Papal primacy is different though related to apostolic succession as described here. |
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How the development of apostolic government developed is difficult to say accurately because of the absence of certain documents. |
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Ordination of a bishop, and thus continuation of apostolic succession, takes place through a ritual centred on the imposition of hands and prayer. |
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In light of Wesley's episcopal consecration, the Methodist Church can lay a claim on apostolic succession, as understood in the traditional sense. |
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At any given time there were in the Chamber 150 notaries, 100 solicitors of apostolic letters, 60 minor abbreviators, and 80-odd scriptors of briefs. |
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While Jesus is still giving Peter the keys to the kingdom, our contemporary minds think about concepts like authority, papal primacy and apostolic succession. |
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This was therefore an early argument supported by apostolic succession. |
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By far, the most controversial point has been the fourth, which many believe could open the door to challenging the Church's episcopal tradition of apostolic succession. |
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This development left the new group open to charges of violating the customs of apostolic succession, in which three bishops customarily are present. |
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In this sense, the aim of the councils was not to expand or fuel a popular need for a clearer or relevant picture of the original apostolic teaching. |
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It rejoices in the inheritance of the apostolic faith and loyally accepts the fundamental principles of the historic creeds and of the Protestant Reformation. |
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The apostolic period produced writings attributed to the direct followers of Jesus Christ and is traditionally associated with the apostles and apostolic times. |
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After its establishment, each subsequent prophet and leader of the church have received the authority passed down by the laying on of hands, or through apostolic succession. |
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The Moravian Church teaches that it has preserved apostolic succession. |
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In 1929 the Society was put in charge of the apostolic prefecture of Szepingkai, erected on portions of the vicariates of Jehol and Mukden, Manchuria. |
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The church traces its apostolic succession directly to the Utrecht Union and thus possesses orders and sacraments which are recognised by the Holy See. |
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As mentioned, the Lutheran Church in Sweden and Finland are exceptions, claiming apostolic succession in a pattern somewhat like the Anglican churches. |
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Episcopacy was thus seen as a given of the Reformed Ecclesia Anglicana, and a foundation in the institution's appeal to ancient and apostolic legitimacy. |
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The church has continued to ordain bishops in the apostolic succession, with Moravian, Church of England and Indian Orthodox bishops taking part on occasion. |
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These influences have later resulted in serious rifts and in the breaking down of the monolithic apostolic church to different fragments under different faith stream. |
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She suggests that Dionysius had to look to apostolic authority, hence he took the pseudonym Dionysius in order to be accepted by Chalcedonians and Monophysites. |
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Her apostolic virtue is departed from her, and hath left her key-cold. |
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Later, the term was widely used in canon law for an important determination, especially a decree issued by the Pope, now referred to as an apostolic constitution. |
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Adherents of the Oxford Movement, begun in 1833, raised questions about the relationship of the Church of England to the apostolic church and thus about its forms of worship. |
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The intent was to emulate the customs of the primitive apostolic church. |
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Rome had a large congregation early in the apostolic period whom Paul the Apostle addressed in his Epistle to the Romans, and according to tradition Paul was martyred there. |
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In the Anglican tradition, bishops must be consecrated according to the strictures of apostolic succession, which Anglicans consider one of the marks of Catholicity. |
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