Anabaptism, Denominations Anabaptists reject papal primacy along with all state-church establishment, insisting on a gathered church separate from civil authority.
No province accepts the universal jurisdiction of the see of Rome or the papal infallibility defined in 1870. The Quadrilateral locates continuity in the episcopate as a whole and names no see, and the Communion's own cohesion rests on four instruments that consult rather than command.
Anglicanism, Denominations Article XXXVII of the Thirty-Nine Articles denies the Bishop of Rome any jurisdiction in this tradition's national church.
Baptist, Denominations Baptists reject papal primacy, holding to the priesthood of all believers and the autonomy of the local congregation instead of any single earthly head of the church.
This tradition rejects papal primacy and infallibility; the Westminster Confession of Faith, Chapter XXV, Of the Church, denies the Pope of Rome any headship of the church.
Rome's honour as a see is not in question here. What is rejected is universal jurisdiction over the whole church and the personal infallibility defined in 1870. Primacy among the Orthodox churches is held to be a primacy of honour, not of power.
Rome's honour as a see is not in question here. What is rejected is universal jurisdiction over the whole church and the personal infallibility defined in 1870. Primacy among the Orthodox churches is held to be a primacy of honour, not of power.
The Preamble and Declaration of 1870 constituted the Church of Ireland as a self-governing church which receives and approves the Thirty-Nine Articles and recognises no jurisdiction of the see of Rome over itself. It had held that position as the established church for three centuries in a country whose great majority was Roman Catholic, and it kept it after the state withdrew.
The Belgic Confession sets out the marks by which the true church is known, the pure preaching of the gospel, the pure administration of the sacraments and the exercise of church discipline, and recognises no see or officer standing above them. It describes as false a church that ascribes to itself and its ordinances more authority than to the word of God.
This tradition rejects the Roman claim to universal jurisdiction and papal infallibility.
Universal jurisdiction and papal infallibility are not held here. This church's own autocephaly was granted in 1993 by the Coptic Pope of Alexandria, within the Oriental Orthodox family, and neither Rome nor Constantinople had a part in it.
The Augsburg Confession's article on the power of bishops confines that power to the word and the sacraments, denies bishops any authority over civil government and denies them any right to bind consciences beyond scripture, which leaves no ground for a universal jurisdiction or for infallible teaching.
Rome's honour as a see is not in question here. What is rejected is universal jurisdiction over the whole church and the personal infallibility defined in 1870. Primacy among the Orthodox churches is held to be a primacy of honour, not of power.
Rome's honour as a see is not in question here. What is rejected is universal jurisdiction over the whole church and the personal infallibility defined in 1870. Primacy among the Orthodox churches is held to be a primacy of honour, not of power.
No claim of Roman primacy or infallibility is recognised. Direction comes from this body's own Governing Body.
No Roman claim to primacy is recognised, on the same ground: the line this body accepts was restored, not continued.
Lutheranism, Denominations The Augsburg Confession, Article XXVIII, Of Ecclesiastical Power, denies that the office of bishop, including the papacy, carries power over civil government or over conscience apart from the Word, undercutting the claim of papal primacy over princes and believers alike.
This tradition rejects Roman papal primacy and jurisdiction; each Oriental Orthodox church is self-governing under its own patriarch or catholicos.
Pentecostal denominations, arising outside and independent of Roman Catholic structure, do not recognize papal primacy.
This tradition rejects papal primacy and infallibility; the Westminster Confession of Faith, Chapter XXV, denies the Pope of Rome any headship of the church.
Rome's honour as a see is not in question here. What is rejected is universal jurisdiction over the whole church and the personal infallibility defined in 1870. Primacy among the Orthodox churches is held to be a primacy of honour, not of power.
Rome's honour as a see is not in question here. What is rejected is universal jurisdiction over the whole church and the personal infallibility defined in 1870. Primacy among the Orthodox churches is held to be a primacy of honour, not of power.
Seventh-day Adventism, a nineteenth-century American Protestant movement independent of Rome, does not recognize papal primacy.
A primacy of honour and not of jurisdiction. The bishop of Rome is first among equals; he is not a bishop over bishops and holds no charism of infallibility.
A primacy of honour and not of jurisdiction, in common with the Eastern Orthodox churches.