Apostolic Succession Definition

Apostolic Succession Sentence Examples

• It is very striking that in his appeal to tradition Vincent assigns no part to the bishops as such - apart from the council; he appeals to the ancient "teachers," not to any apostolic succession.

• To him the divine authority of the Catholic Church was an axiom, and in 1889 he published two works, the larger of which, The Church and the Ministry, is a learned vindication of the principle of Apostolic Succession in the episcopate against the Presbyterians and other Protestant bodies, while the second, Roman Catholic Claims, is a defence, couched in a more popular form, of the Anglican Church and Anglican orders against the attacks of the Romanists.

• Of the notion of apostolic succession in ministerial grace conferred by ordination, there is little or no trace before Irenaeus.

• Graham, I have understood apostolic succession to be through Christ and the Holy Spirit and " passed down " to all believers.

• This is the true apostolic succession from Paul to men like ML-J and on to the coming of the Lord.