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The Apostolic Succession: A Reply to Francis A. Sullivan
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1 Sullivan, Francis A. S.J., From Apostles to Bishops: The Development of the Episcopacy in the Early Church(New York/Mahwah, N.J.: The Newman Press, 2001)Google Scholar.
2 The Secretariat For Promoting Christian Unity, Information Service; N. 82 1993 (I), 51. (Sullivan gives as reference Origins 21/28 (19 Dec. 1991): 441–47, at 446.)
3 Sullivan, 13.
4 Sullivan, 16.
5 Lumen Gentium§ 20.
6 Lumen Gentium§ 18. (Translations are from the Tanner edition, but the liberty is taken to make any changes which seem to be indicated on the basis of the original.)
7 Lumen Gentium§ 20.
8 Lumen Gentium§ 21.
9 Lumen Gentium§ 22.
10 Sullivan, 218.
11 ibid.
12 Sullivan, 224.
13 Sullivan, viii.
14 Sullivan, 14. The inadequacy of Sullivan's overly narrow definition of a bishop has been pointed out by Oswald Sobrino in “Was Peter the First Bishop of Rome?”New Blackfriars Vol. 84 No. 991 September 2003, 415–421CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
15 See Sobrino, 418.
16 Sullivan, 14.
17 Sullivan, 219–21.
18 Sullivan, 78.
19 Sullivan, 71.
20 Sullivan, 94.
21 Sullivan, 100–101.
22 Lumen Gentium, § 20, referring to 1 Clement 44.2 in a footnote as the basis for their affirmation.
23 The Letter to the Ephesians 3:2.
24 The Letter to the Trallians 3:1.
25 Adversus Haereses III.3.1. (Translation, following Sullivan is from Early Christian Fathers, Volume 1.)
26 III.3.2.
27 III.3.3.
28 Sullivan, 149. (Underlining in the original.)
29 DS 3057/ND 824.
30 Sullivan suggests a number of times that such “proving” is the business of a theologian. See ix, 16, 218 and 223.
31 Sullivan, viii and 217.
32 Sullivan, 225. (The reference to Brown is, Biblical Crises Facing the Church(New York/Paramus, N.J.: Paulist Press, 1975), 52–55Google Scholar.)
33 On this see Jones, March 1999, 137.
34 Sullivan, 229.
35 Sullivan, 228.
36 Letter to the Philippians 5:3.
37 Sullivan, 128.
38 Translation following Sullivan from The Apostolic Fathers.
39 Sullivan, 222.
40 David Albert Jones, “Was there a Bishop of Rome in the First Century?,”New Blackfriars, March 1999, 128–143, at 140.
41 David Albert Jones “The Bishop of Rome Revisited,”New Blackfriars, June 1999, 309–312, at 309–10.