Author: athair ambroisathair ambrois Date: Aug 3, 2008 01:43
On Aug 3, 1:10 pm, Bishop Daniel Garguillio garguillio.com>
wrote:> My Son,
>
> Once again: I hold ordination by Consecration via valid Apostolic
> Succession, incardinated within the North American Old Catholic Church
> (< http://www.naoldcatholic.com>), and am Metropolitan Archbishop of
> its Ancient Orthodox Eparchy.
Dan,
It's posible that the Roman Catholics might recognise your
ordinations. This is because of their hands-on-head pipeline view of
apostolic succession. After investigation by Rome you could be
accepted by them as a valid but illicit bishop.
But for the Orthodox you are simply a lay person outside the Church.
Apostolic succesion is not simply a hands-on-head lineage as the West
imagines but a living connection with the rest of the episcopate.
Break that connection and it all comes crashing down.
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