单词 | apostolic succession |
释义 | > as lemmasapostolic(al) succession 7. The act of succeeding to the episcopate by the reception of lawfully transmitted authority by ordination. apostolic(al) succession (or the succession), the continued transmission of the ministerial commission, through an unbroken line of bishops from the Apostles onwards. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > bishop > [noun] > entry into office of succession1565 1565 T. Harding Confut. Apol. Church of Eng. ii. f. 57v To go from your succession, which ye can not proue, and to come to your vocation, how saye you Syr? 1567 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. ii. 129 Haue these menne their owne succession in so safe Record? Who was then the Bishop of Rome nexte by succession vnto Peter? 1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. iii. xxxiii. 55 Obtayning the first stepp of Apostolicall succession, and being as deuine Disciples of the..principall men. 1653 O. Cromwell Speech 4 July (Carlyle) I speak not..for a Ministry deriving itself from the Papacy, and pretending to that which is so much insisted on, ‘Succession’. 1845 S. Wilberforce in A. R. Ashwell Life S. Wilberforce (1880) I. viii. 314 Instead of taking as your prominent subject the ‘Succession’..you would take the more spiritual view of the Ministry. 1847 J. Yeowell Chron. Anc. Brit. Church ix. 99 We have an account of their [sc. the bishops'] successions for some ages. 1879 A. W. Haddan Apostolical Succession Church Eng. ii. 35 Foreign or other Protestants, who either disclaim or do not possess the Succession. 1879 A. W. Haddan Apostolical Succession Church Eng. ii. 30 The historical and canonical objections advanced..against the validity of the English Succession. < as lemmas |
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