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Irenaeus

Εἰρηναῖος Λουγδούνου grc

2nd-century Greek bishop and Doctor of the Church

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Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.

Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.

Irenaeus 2nd-century Greek bishop and Doctor of the Church

Its branches, councils, saints, offices and buildings — and where they stopped recognising each other.