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34-522: The Lusitanian Catholic Orthodox Church identifies its origins in the original undivided Christian community founded by Jesus , with its traditions first established by the Twelve Apostles . Christianity came to Portugal with Saint Peter of Braga , a disciple of Saint James the Great , who sent him between 45 and 60 AD. The legend says that Saint James, one of the apostles of Christ, visited

68-487: A direct line of laying on of hands from the apostles, a claim that they accept can be made by the other churches in this group. The Anglican Communion , as well as many Lutheran Churches such as the Church of Sweden , likewise teach the doctrine of apostolic succession. Other Christian denominations, on the other hand, usually hold that what preserves apostolic continuity is the written word: as Bruce Milne put it, "A church

102-467: Is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female , for you are all one in Christ Jesus" ( Gal. 3:28 ). This statement was about Christians as individuals, but it applied to them also as groups, as local church, whether composed mainly of Jewish or Gentile Christians. The word holy in this sense means set apart for a special purpose by and for God . The Church

136-583: Is aided by the (auxiliary) titular bishops of Conímbriga, Viseu, Dume, Lamego, Evora and Egitânia. The Portuguese territory is divided in three eparchies (dioceses) : The presbyters and deacons may marry before ordination. There is one order of monastic life, called Order of Saint Basil (like the main Orthodox order), with eight monks and five nuns. There are about 2,000 members and sympathizers, mostly in Northern Portugal. It follows

170-621: Is apostolic as it recognizes in practice the supreme authority of the apostolic scriptures." Braga Rite God Schools Relations with: The Rite of Braga (or Bragan Rite ; Portuguese : rito bracarense ) is a Catholic liturgical rite associated with the Archdiocese of Braga in Portugal . The historical Rite of Braga belonged to the Roman family of liturgical rites with some Gallican influence. It took shape within

204-573: Is holy because it has been set apart to do God's work, and because God is present in it. Christians understand the holiness of the Church to derive from Christ's holiness. The word catholic is derived from the Ancient Greek adjective καθολικός ( romanized : katholikos ), meaning "general", "universal". It is associated with the Greek adverb καθόλου ( katholou ), meaning "according to

238-464: Is in Corinth" ( 1 Cor. 1:2 ). In the same letter, he tells Christians: "You are the body of Christ and individually members of it" ( 1 Cor. 12:27 ), and declares that, "just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ" ( 1 Cor. 12:12 ). In Eph. 4:5–6 , Paul writes: "There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to

272-535: Is nothing new, but the true catholic faith, and that their churches represent the true catholic or universal church." When the Lutherans presented the Augsburg Confession to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor in 1530, they believe to have "showed that each article of faith and practice was true first of all to Holy Scripture, and then also to the teaching of the church fathers and the councils." As such,

306-694: The Nicene Creed , established by the First Council of Nicaea 56 years before by adding to the end a section that included the affirmation: "[We believe] in one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church." The phrase remains in versions of the Nicene Creed. In some languages, for example, German, the Latin " catholica " was substituted by "Christian" before the Reformation by some, although this

340-1078: The Roman Catholic Church (both Latin and Eastern Rites ), the Oriental Orthodox Churches , the Assyrian Church of the East , the Moravian Church , the Lutheran Churches , the Methodist Churches , the Presbyterian Churches , the Anglican Communion , and by members of the Reformed Churches , although they interpret it in very different ways, and some Protestants alter the word "Catholic" in

374-778: The "Filioque" in the Nicene Creed , leading many (generally Orthodox) churches to leave communion with Rome. In some places in the West, such as in Southern Italy, many bishops resisted. In the 19th century many priests dissented from the Roman Catholic Church in Portugal. Some of them joined the Lusitanian Catholic Apostolic Evangelical Church , others remained independent Catholics, celebrating mass underground. In

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408-494: The 1980s some of these priests received episcopal ordination through Rapoza's line and the Old Calendarist Greek Orthodox Church and rebuilt Orthodox Catholicism in Portugal. The Lusitanian Orthodox Church accepts the seven ecumenical councils. The Lusitanian Orthodox Church keeps the original Nicene Creed, accepted universally by the Church, East and West, during the first millennium without

442-620: The Archdiocese of Braga between the 11th and 13th centuries. The Missal of Mateus, which dates to the second quarter of the twelfth century, is the oldest known source for this Rite. Pope Pius V 's papal bulls Quod a nobis of 9 July 1568 and Quo primum of 14 July 1570 imposed as a general rule the Roman Rite throughout the Latin Church , but exempted other Latin rites which had been in use for at least two centuries. Since

476-497: The Catholic Church, regards itself as the historical and organic continuation of the original Church founded by Christ and his apostles . The Oriental Orthodox Church disagrees with both and claims to be the historical and organic continuation of the original Church founded by Christ and his apostles , the "one, holy, catholic, and apostolic" Church of the ancient Christian creeds and the only Church that has always kept

510-581: The Church , also known as the Attributes of the Church , describes four distinctive adjectives of traditional Christian ecclesiology as expressed in the Nicene Creed completed at the First Council of Constantinople in AD 381: "[We believe] in one , holy, catholic , and apostolic Church." This ecumenical creed is today recited in the liturgies of the Eastern Orthodox Church ,

544-566: The Church as spread throughout the world but also to each local manifestation of the Church, in each of which nothing essential is lacking for it to be the genuine body of Christ. For his subjects, Roman Emperor Theodosius I restricted the term "catholic Christians" to believers in "the one deity of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, in equal majesty and in a holy Trinity ", and applied

578-456: The Church of Christ, impel towards Catholic Unity". The eastern Churches not in full communion with the Catholic Church thereby "lack something in their condition as particular Churches ". The communities born out of the 16th-century Protestant Reformation "do not enjoy apostolic succession in the sacrament of Orders , and are, therefore, deprived of a constituent element of the Church." The Eastern Orthodox Church , in disagreement with

612-637: The Comforter. The Lusitanian Orthodox Church rejects the idea of a purgatory . The Lusitanian Orthodox Church is headed by the Orthodox Archbishop of Braga and Lisbon, who is also Metropolitan Primate of Portugal, Spain and All Brazil. The first titular has been João I, since his election at the I Local Council of the Lusitanian Orthodox Church, at 8 June 1997, by acclamation, and his enthronement, at 15 June 1997. He

646-589: The Four Marks have been in the Christian Church since early Christianity . Allusions to them can be found in the writings of 2nd-century early Church Father and bishop Ignatius of Antioch . They were not established in doctrine until the First Council of Constantinople in 381 as an antidote to certain heresies that had crept into the Church in its early history. There the Council elaborated on

680-645: The Lutheran Churches traditionally hold that theirs represents the true visible Church . This mark derives from the Pauline epistles , which state that the Church is "one". In 1 Cor. 15:9 , Paul the Apostle spoke of himself as having persecuted "the church of God", not just the local church in Jerusalem but the same church that he addresses at the beginning of that letter as "the church of God that

714-643: The Mother of God (Theotokos) is the highest person above all humanity and the angels owing to her role as Mother of the Word Incarnate. But does not believe in her Immaculate Conception nor Assumption into Heaven. The Lusitanian Orthodox Church believes the Holy Spirit act in the humanity ( Theosis ) through the Incarnation, Death and Resurrection of our Lord, God and Saviour Jesus Christ who sends

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748-694: The accretions, to revise the texts and to make the rite obligatory within the archdiocese. A missal was published in 1924. However, the Rite of Braga has rarely been used since the Second Vatican Council . In 2018, the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei (PCED) considers it a local Use of the Roman Rite, rather than an independent rite. The Use of Braga contains many of the classically medieval features of

782-615: The addition of Filioque . The Holy Communion is celebrated with both wine and bread, with the anamnesis, the Words of Institution and the Epiclesis of the Holy Spirit is a "consecrating formula". The Lusitanian Orthodox Church believes the Original Sin has consequences in death, concupiscence and tendency toward sin in human nature, but not inheriting guilty for Adam's faults. The Lusitanian Orthodox Church has always believed that

816-754: The ancient Braga Rite celebrated in Portuguese, with churches having iconostasis , facing East, the icons are painted rather than sculpted. As in the Orthodox Liturgy, the bread of the Eucharist is leavened, and every member receives part of the wine and the bread. Children are baptized by immersion. It follows the Julian calendar of the Liturgic Year, like the Orthodox. One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church The Four Marks of

850-471: The creed, replacing it with the word "Christian". While many doctrines, based on both tradition and different interpretations of the Bible , distinguish one denomination from another (largely explaining why there are many different ones), the Four Marks represent a summary of what many clergy and theologians have historically considered to be the most important affirmations of Christianity. The ideas behind

884-667: The liturgy, which will be familiar to those who use the Dominican, Premonstratensian or Old Carmelite liturgical books, or those who have studied the Uses of Sarum, Paris etc., but also many features unique to itself. A peculiarity of the Rite of Braga was the recitation of the Ave Maria at the start of Mass and of the Sub tuum praesidium at the end. In a talk on 24 October 1998, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) cited

918-558: The name " heretics " to others ( Edict of Thessalonica of 27 February 380). This describes the Church's foundation and beliefs as rooted and continuing in the living tradition of the apostles of Jesus. The Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox Churches, and the Assyrian Church of the East each claim to have preserved the original teaching of the apostles. They also have apostolic succession in that their bishops derive their authority through

952-610: The northwest of the Iberian Peninsula in 44 AD. One of his supposed visits was to Serra de Rates , in the current municipality of Póvoa de Varzim . During his visit, the apostle is to have ordained the local Peter of Rates as the first bishop Braga . It is believed that Saint Peter of Rates was beheaded while converting believers of the Roman religion to the Christian faith. The first historically recorded bishop of Braga

986-430: The one hope that belongs to your call—one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all." This list of factors making Christians one body, one church, is doubtless not meant to be exhaustive, says Francis A. Sullivan , but it affirms the oneness of the body, the Church, through what Christians have in common—what they have communion in. Elsewhere, Paul says: "There

1020-415: The rite or "use" of Braga was more than 200 years old at the time of these bulls, it was not affected by them. However, subsequently the Roman Rite was increasingly adopted within the archdiocese and non-traditional elements were admitted into celebrations of the archdiocese's rite. In the 20th century an attempt was made by Archbishop Manuel Vieira de Matos , with the approval of Pope Pius XI , to expunge

1054-636: The true Christology and faith declared by the first three councils, the First Council of Nicaea, the First Council of Constantinople, and the Council of Ephesus affirmed by the Church Fathers and the sacred tradition . The Augsburg Confession found within the Book of Concord , a compendium of belief of the Lutheran Churches , teaches that "the faith as confessed by Luther and his followers

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1088-467: The whole", "entirely", or "in general", a combination of the preposition κατά meaning "according to" and the adjective ὅλος meaning "whole". Applied to the Church, the adjective "catholic" means that in the Church the wholeness of the Christian faith, full and complete, all-embracing, and with nothing lacking, is proclaimed to all people without excluding any part of the faith or any class or group of people. The adjective can be applied not only to

1122-547: Was Paterno, who took part in the Council of Toledo in the year 400. The Metropolitan of Braga had canonical precedence over the diocese of Conímbriga , diocese of Viseu , diocese of Dume , diocese of Lamego , diocese of Porto and diocese of Egitânia (at present Idanha-a-Velha). The South of Portugal was under the Bishop of Evora and Lisbon . In the year 1052, the Bishop of Rome, claiming authority over all West, and adding

1156-614: Was an anomaly and continues in use by some Protestant churches. Hence, "holy catholic " becomes "holy Christian ." Catholics believe the description "one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church" to be applicable only to the Catholic Church . They hold that " Christ established here on earth only one Church" and they believe in "the full identity of the Church of Christ with the Catholic Church". While "there are numerous elements of sanctification and of truth which are found outside her structure", these, "as gifts properly belonging to

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