To: Kolokotronis
"I'm not a Roman Catholic and I most certainly was not talking about the Roman Catechism."
Well that explains it then. What catechism do you use?
103 posted on
01/21/2005 7:32:34 PM PST by
Rokke
To: Rokke
I'm Orthodox. There really isn't anything like an official catechism in Orthodoxy. My point to you about the Creed is that the bishops who proclaimed the Creed at the Council of Nicea used the words quoted in a very specific way and the words are interdependent. The allusion to the year 98 refers to the first use of the word "catholic" (universal) to describe the Church, by St. Ignatius of Antioch, the bishop of Antioch, appointed by St. Peter and a disciple of both +Peter and +John, who defined the Church as catholic and to be found where the bishop is because that is where Christ is. Apostolicity refers to the bishops within the succession from the Apostles and which every Roman, Orthodox, Eastern Rite Catholic and Non Chalcedonian Christian bishop can lay claim to. When the Nicene Fathers used these words, this is what they meant and actually what that quoted part of the Creed means.
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