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Authority and Order in the Ancient Church

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This year marks the Council of Nicaea's 1700th anniversary (A.D. 325). Numerous micro-articles promoting revisionist histories have surfaced on X and other platforms, and they require correction. Certain voices are promoting revisionist histories for reasons that appear to be motivated by ill will. Fortunately, Mark Bonocore has conducted extensive research on the subject of authority in the ancient Church, offering a crucial correction that cuts through the mist of factually incorrect narratives. H/T Mark Bonocore for his article Does the Orthodox Church predate the Catholic Church? https://www.catholicbridge.com/orthodox/does-the-orthodox-church-predate-the-catholic-church.php Excerpt (T)he patriarchal authority of Jerusalem is an invention of the Council of Chalcedon. It did not exist before A.D. 451. The same is true of the so-called patriarchal authority of Constantinople. Despite medieval, state-sponsored legends (which have no basis in fact or ancient history), Byzantium had...
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FEATURED SCRIPTURE | Revelation 7:9-12

AFTER this I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no man could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb!” And all the angels stood round the throne and round the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God for ever and ever! Amen.”

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