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• Jordan threatened anyone who denied the apostolicity of Martial with excommunication.
• They pride themselves on the apostolicity of the Egyptian Church whose founder was the first in an unbroken chain of patriarchs.
• Whereas our sign of apostolicity is the succession of ordained ministers, for them ( Lutherans ) the sign is faithfulness to the gospel.
• The basic factor for recognizing a book's canonicity for the New Testament was divine inspiration, and the chief test for this was apostolicity.
• "It is largely our convictions about apostolicity that form the new common ground, " said Adams, a professor of liturgics and Anglican studies at the seminary.
• Concerning the Gospel of Mark, many modern scholars have dismissed Papias'reliability regarding this Gospel due to the purpose of Papias in vindicating the apostolicity of Mark's Gospel.
• From 29 July to 2 August 1029 a local synod was held under Jordan's presidency in Limoges in order to approve a new liturgy and the apostolicity of Saint Martial.
• The Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue Between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church makes use of the term " cathedra " to point out the existence of a bishop in each local ecclesial apostolicity.
• In particular, along with unity, sanctity, and apostolicity, catholicity is considered one of Four Marks of the Church, found the line of the Nicene Creed : " I believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church ."
• Since the bishop, once ordained, becomes the guarantor of apostolicity and successor of the apostles; he joins together all the bishops, thus maintaining " episkope " of the local Churches derived from the college of the apostles.
• In the encyclical, Leo said " that the ancient Eastern rites are a witness to the Apostolicity of the Catholic Church, that their diversity, consistent with unity of the faith, is itself a witness to the unity of the Church, that they add to her dignity and honour.
• Adrian Fortescue wrote that Leo XIII " begins by explaining again that the ancient Eastern rites are a witness to the Apostolicity of the Catholic Church, that their diversity, consistent with unity of the faith, is itself a witness to the unity of the Church, that they add to her dignity and honour.
• In discussing the canon, Metzger identifies three criteria  for acceptance of particular writings as sacred, authoritative, and worthy of being read in services of worship & , criteria which were  generally adopted during the course of the second century, and were never modified thereafter, namely, orthodoxy ( conformity to the rule of faith ), apostolicity, and consensus among the churches.
• In its 1982 statement on Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry, the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches stated that " the primary manifestation of apostolic succession is to be found in the apostolic tradition of the Church as a whole . . . . Under the particular historical circumstances of the growing Church in the early centuries, the succession of bishops became one of the ways, together with the transmission of the Gospel and the life of the community, in which the apostolic tradition of the Church was expressed . " It spoke of episcopal succession as something that churches that do not have bishops can see " as a sign, though not a guarantee, of the continuity and unity of the Church " and that all churches can see " as a sign of the apostolicity of the life of the whole church ".