Doctrine Graph
Doctrine is a network, not a list
The graph has no fixed centre. It opens on Abraham — the one figure every tradition in the record shares — and you can start from any node. Every edge carries its evidence, its classification and how each tradition stands on it.
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Connections of Apostolic succession
AM-DOC-0026Interpretive connectionHighAuthorityProvisional
Priesthood ↔ Apostolic succession · Transmission
Catholic and Orthodox teaching holds that apostolic authority passes through the succession of bishops.
Tradition status: Catholic and Orthodox; rejected in most Protestant and in Latter-day Saint teaching.
Evidence: 1 Clement 42–44; Irenaeus, Against Heresies 3.3.1–3; Lumen Gentium 20 · grounded by AM-CLAIM-000272, AM-CLAIM-000273
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