ℂ𝕒𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕝𝕚𝕔 𝔸𝕡𝕠𝕝𝕠𝕘𝕖𝕥𝕚𝕔𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 ℙ𝕠𝕝𝕖𝕞𝕚𝕔𝕤

Forwarded from Pure World Truth

Therefore, Protestantism , as an unauthorized gathering, is even farther away, than Latinism, from the Orthodox Church… although, according to the apostolic succession, the inner regenerating grace is communicated in Catholicism through the sacraments of baptism and chrismation. (Quoted from Valery Sinilschikov” St. Seraphim Bogucharsky on the reality of heretical sacraments)

Eastern Orthodox St. Philaret of Moscow:

“Mark you, I do not presume to call false any Church which believes that Jesus is the Christ. The Christian Church can only be either purely true, confessing the true and saving divine teaching 0without the false admixtures and pernicious opinions of men, or not purely true, mixing with the true and saving teaching of faith in Christ the false and pernicious opinions of men… but I just simply look upon them; in part I see how the Head and Lord of the Church heals the many deep wounds of the old serpent in all the parts and limbs of his Body, applying now gentle, now strong, remedies, even fire and iron, in order to soften hardness, to draw out poison, to clean wounds, to separate out malignant growths, to restore spirit and life in the numbed and half-dead members. In this way I attest my faith that, in the end, the power of God will triumph openly over human weakness, good over evil, unity over division, life over death.” (Quoted in Fr. Georges Florovsky, The Limits of the Church)

“Anyone baptized in the name of the Trinity is a Christian, no matter what confession he belongs to.”(Quoted from Sergei Fedorov, The Reality of Sacraments Outside the Church)

🔸Eastern Orthodox sources teaching Anglicans have a valid priesthood:

"Our Holy Synod, therefore, came to an opinion accepting the validity of the Anglican priesthood"
- Encyclical of Ecumenical Patriarch Meletius IV to the Primates of the Orthodox Churches, 1922

"Today, explaining this telegram, we inform Your Grace that the Holy Synod, having as a motive the resolution passed some time ago by the Church of Constantinople, which is the Church having the First Throne between the Orthodox Churches, resolved that the consecrations of bishops and ordinations of priests and deacons of the Anglican Episcopal Church are considered by the Orthodox Church as having the same validity which the Orders of the Roman Church have, because there exist all the elements which are considered necessary from an Orthodox point of view for the recognition of the grace of the Holy Orders from Apostolic Succession."
- Letter of Patriarch Damianos of Jerusalem to the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1923

"It being understood that the Apostolic Succession in the Anglican Church by the Sacrament of Order was not broken at the Consecration of the first Archbishop of this Church, Matthew Parker, and the visible signs being present in Orders among the Anglicans by which the grace of the Holy Spirit is supplied, which enables the ordinand for the functions of his particular order, there is no obstacle to the recognition by the Orthodox Church of the validity of Anglican Ordinations in the same way that the validity of the ordinations of the Roman, Old Catholic, and Armenian Church are recognized by her."
- Letter of Archbishop Cyril of Cyprus and his Synod to the Patriarchate of Constantinople, 1923

"The Church of Alexandria withdraws its precautionary negative to the acceptance of the validity of Anglican Ordinations, and, adhering to the decision of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, of July 28, 1922, pronounces that if priests, ordained by Anglican Bishops, accede to Orthodoxy, they should not be re-ordained, as persons baptized by Anglicans are not rebaptized."
- Letter of Patriarch Meletius of Alexandria and His Synod to the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1930

"[F]rom the historical point of view no obstacle exists to the recognition of the Apostolic succession of Anglican orders." - Resolution of the Synod of The Church of Romania on Anglican Orders, 1936

www.tgoop.com/CATHOLICAPOLOGETICSANDPOLEMICS/3561

425 viewsApr 28 at 06:03

Therefore, Protestantism , as an unauthorized gathering, is even farther away, than Latinism, from the Orthodox Church… although, according to the apostolic succession, the inner regenerating grace is communicated in Catholicism through the sacraments of baptism and chrismation. (Quoted from Valery Sinilschikov” St. Seraphim Bogucharsky on the reality of heretical sacraments)

Eastern Orthodox St. Philaret of Moscow:

“Mark you, I do not presume to call false any Church which believes that Jesus is the Christ. The Christian Church can only be either purely true, confessing the true and saving divine teaching 0without the false admixtures and pernicious opinions of men, or not purely true, mixing with the true and saving teaching of faith in Christ the false and pernicious opinions of men… but I just simply look upon them; in part I see how the Head and Lord of the Church heals the many deep wounds of the old serpent in all the parts and limbs of his Body, applying now gentle, now strong, remedies, even fire and iron, in order to soften hardness, to draw out poison, to clean wounds, to separate out malignant growths, to restore spirit and life in the numbed and half-dead members. In this way I attest my faith that, in the end, the power of God will triumph openly over human weakness, good over evil, unity over division, life over death.” (Quoted in Fr. Georges Florovsky, The Limits of the Church)

“Anyone baptized in the name of the Trinity is a Christian, no matter what confession he belongs to.”(Quoted from Sergei Fedorov, The Reality of Sacraments Outside the Church)

🔸Eastern Orthodox sources teaching Anglicans have a valid priesthood:

"Our Holy Synod, therefore, came to an opinion accepting the validity of the Anglican priesthood"
- Encyclical of Ecumenical Patriarch Meletius IV to the Primates of the Orthodox Churches, 1922

"Today, explaining this telegram, we inform Your Grace that the Holy Synod, having as a motive the resolution passed some time ago by the Church of Constantinople, which is the Church having the First Throne between the Orthodox Churches, resolved that the consecrations of bishops and ordinations of priests and deacons of the Anglican Episcopal Church are considered by the Orthodox Church as having the same validity which the Orders of the Roman Church have, because there exist all the elements which are considered necessary from an Orthodox point of view for the recognition of the grace of the Holy Orders from Apostolic Succession."
- Letter of Patriarch Damianos of Jerusalem to the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1923

"It being understood that the Apostolic Succession in the Anglican Church by the Sacrament of Order was not broken at the Consecration of the first Archbishop of this Church, Matthew Parker, and the visible signs being present in Orders among the Anglicans by which the grace of the Holy Spirit is supplied, which enables the ordinand for the functions of his particular order, there is no obstacle to the recognition by the Orthodox Church of the validity of Anglican Ordinations in the same way that the validity of the ordinations of the Roman, Old Catholic, and Armenian Church are recognized by her."
- Letter of Archbishop Cyril of Cyprus and his Synod to the Patriarchate of Constantinople, 1923

"The Church of Alexandria withdraws its precautionary negative to the acceptance of the validity of Anglican Ordinations, and, adhering to the decision of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, of July 28, 1922, pronounces that if priests, ordained by Anglican Bishops, accede to Orthodoxy, they should not be re-ordained, as persons baptized by Anglicans are not rebaptized."
- Letter of Patriarch Meletius of Alexandria and His Synod to the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1930

"[F]rom the historical point of view no obstacle exists to the recognition of the Apostolic succession of Anglican orders." - Resolution of the Synod of The Church of Romania on Anglican Orders, 1936

BY ℂ𝕒𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕝𝕚𝕔 𝔸𝕡𝕠𝕝𝕠𝕘𝕖𝕥𝕚𝕔𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 ℙ𝕠𝕝𝕖𝕞𝕚𝕔𝕤