@orthodoxperspectives: What Happened to the Church After the Apostles? | Orthodox Video Edit An edited compilation of Fr. Jonathan Ivanoff discussing the continuity of the Orthodox Church, the Apostolic Fathers, Rome, Protestantism, baptism, and the ancient Christian faith. Original full unedited video: https://youtu.be/TxqOqKxYrmo?is=HIB1LRew_nIAg6BK The 2016 Catholic-Orthodox Chieti document states: “…Appeals to the bishop of Rome from the East expressed the communion of the Church, but the bishop of Rome did not exercise canonical authority over the churches of the East.” And Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI, wrote: “While the West may point to the absence of the office of Peter in the East—it must, nevertheless, admit that, in the Eastern Church, the form and content of the Church of the Fathers is present in unbroken continuity.” — Principles of Catholic Theology, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Ignatius Press, 1987. Universal papal jurisdiction was not necessary for the preservation of the apostolic faith. The Eastern Church preserved “the form and content of the Church of the Fathers… in unbroken continuity” without the later Roman claims of universal jurisdiction that Vatican I would eventually define. #EasternOrthodox #OrthodoxChristianity #ChurchHistory #ApostolicChurch #ChristianTikTok

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