Nor am I even unwilling to admit an Apostolic succession, never yet extinct, and never more to be extinguished.
All Methodists believe that Bishop Coke, the first Bishop of the Methodist Church received some "apostolic succession" from the original line described in comments on Rev.
It may not be known to many how much stress was laid upon the 'apostolic succession,' which was supposed to be a virtue transmitted through hundreds of years of Papal corruption, by the laying on of the hands of the Bishop.
This is what Irenaeus calls the "Apostolic succession.
A little further down in the century we will find men engaged in laying the foundation of a church, whose claims to infallibility and supremacy are based on "apostolic succession.
Apostolic succession," so far as it depends on him, must fail, and Rome must surrender the authority by which she has held the religious world in subjection for the last seventeen centuries.
He was engaged in furnishing an apostle to the churches in Asia Minor and some parts of Greece, for an "apostolic succession.
Phillips Brooks speaks of "the fantastic absurdity of apostolic succession.
Any other view is based on sacramental notions, and on ideas of apostolic succession.
To make the ministry a close corporation is to recognize the principle of apostolic succession, to deny the validity of all our past ordinations, and to sell to an ecclesiastical caste the liberties of the church of God.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "apostolic succession" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
