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To: Uncle Chip

The First Presbyterian Church of Rome?


204 posted on 07/21/2007 11:37:02 PM PDT by D-fendr
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To: D-fendr
The First Presbyterian Church of Rome?

"There exists a broad consensus among scholars, including most Catholic ones, that such churches as Alexandria, Philippi, Corinth and Rome most probably continued to be led for some time by a college of presbyters, and that only in the second century did the threefold structure of become generally the rule, with a bishop, assisted by presbyters, presiding over each local church."

[Sullivan F.A. From Apostles to Bishops: the development of the episcopacy in the early church. Newman Press, Mahwah (NJ), 2001, pp. 13,14,15]

212 posted on 07/22/2007 4:27:06 AM PDT by Uncle Chip (TRUTH : Ignore it. Deride it. Allegorize it. Interpret it. But you can't ESCAPE it.)
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