Re: Apostolic Succession Claim
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Originally Posted by Nine_Two
And Anglicans are the only Protestants I know of who actually claim it.
Some Lutherans might, I don't know for sure.
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This would be correct. In Scandinavian countries, Lutheran bishops and pastors can trace their lines of succession. In America, ELCA pastors (at least many of them) now trace their lines through Anglican/Episcopal lines, which include the "Dutch Touch".
It is also important to point out that the Lutheran confessions support AS. Here from the Apology of the Augsburg Confession.
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The Fourteenth Article, in which we say that in the Church the administration of the Sacraments and Word ought to be allowed no one unless he be rightly called, they receive, but with the proviso that we employ canonical ordination. Concerning this subject we have frequently testified in this assembly that it is our greatest wish to maintain church-polity and the grades in the Church [old church-regulations and the government of bishops], even though they have been made by human authority [provided the bishops allow our doctrine and receive our priests]. For we know that church discipline was instituted by the Fathers, in the manner laid down in the ancient canons, with a good and useful intention.
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Jon
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Charles Porterfield Krauth
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