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To: kosta50

The bishops of the Church of Sweden retained a belief in apostolic succession after the Protestant revolution.

The presbyters of the Swedish Lutheran state church continued to wear vestments and call the Mass a "sacrifice" despite the Lutheran confessions long after the break with Rome.

The Lutheran bodies in Finland and the Baltics claim Swedish successions.


34 posted on 10/12/2005 7:20:59 PM PDT by JohnRoss
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To: JohnRoss; Kolokotronis; MarMema
The bishops of the Church of Sweden retained a belief in apostolic succession after the Protestant revolution

Is that like a belief in unicorns? They forfeited their Holy Orders by joining a heretic and subscribing to a theology that is as different from the one the Church held from the beginning as night and day.

50 posted on 10/13/2005 12:30:07 AM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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Thank you JR.


52 posted on 10/13/2005 6:15:28 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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