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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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To: kosta50

I think I was trying to say they retained a belief in the concept, but let's not be Donatists here and say the worthiness of the minister removes the grace from the sacred mysteries.

I think Orthodoxy has a wide variety of theories regarding the
efficaciousness of non-Orthodox sacred mysteries: ranging from the neo-Cyprianists to those who believe in St. Augustine's belief that heretical mysteries could be valid.


53 posted on 10/13/2005 7:16:04 AM PDT by JohnRoss (We need a real conservative in 2008)
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