The Catholics and the Orthodox are the only churches of which I'm aware that can trace their succession to the Apostles. There was a reason for laying on of hands. The Orthodox Jews also trace their succession back to the giving of the Torah. The rest sprang up as different denominations, sects, cults, or religions and they formed their own rationale to try to sell themselves as legitimate to history.
Why would you want to try to fool us (and each other)??? Peter didn't appoint anyone to take his place according to scripture...There are a number of missing links in the line which were filled in much later than they supposedly happened...
Eusebius who was responsible for providing names for many before his time has no evidence that he was telling the truth...So yours is not a true story at all...
There was a reason for laying on of hands. The Orthodox Jews also trace their succession back to the giving of the Torah.
True...To them was given the oracles of God to keep and preserve...Theirs is the religion of the bible...Catholicism is not...They have nothing to do with your religion...
The rest sprang up as different denominations, sects, cults, or religions and they formed their own rationale to try to sell themselves as legitimate to history.
The rest sprang us while Paul was creating the different churches in the times of the bible...And have been doing so since the apostle Paul thru Jesus brought them into the body of Christ...