CCC 77

Profession of Faith›SECTION ONE "I BELIEVE" - "WE BELIEVE"›CHAPTER TWO GOD COMES TO MEET MAN›I. The Apostolic Tradition

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church, christ, holy, communion god, creation, man, world christ, god, hope, church

"In order that the full and living Gospel might always be preserved in the Church the apostles left bishops as their successors. They gave them their own position of teaching authority." Indeed, "the apostolic preaching, which is expressed in a special way in the inspired books, was to be preserved in a continuous line of succession until the end of time."

Footnotes

DV 7 # 2; St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 3, 3, 1: PG 7/1, 848; Harvey, 2, 9.
DV 8 # 1.

Church Fathers (1)

Irenaeus

Ecclesiastical Documents (2)

Dei Verbum Patrologia Graeca

Dei Verbum 7, Patrologia Graeca 7, Dei Verbum 8

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CCC 78

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