Theos-Talk Archives (May 1996 Message tl01003)

In message <2.2.32.19960517192954.006bfa8c@mail.slip.net>, alexis
dolgorukii <alexei@slip.net> writes
>>Alan: There's been lots of "illegitimate Bishops" but exactly how do you
>mean that?
>alexis

I produced a 256 page book listing around 1200 and a later supplement
listing around 600.  The "illegitimacy" lies (as ever) in the eye of the
beholder, usually the RC or Anglican church, but also the Eastern
Orthodox.  The kindest [Roman, surprisingly] view is that such orders as
mine - and CWL's - are "valid, but irregular."

CWL for example, would have been legit as an Anglican Curate (which he
was to start with) but illegit once he left the Anglicans for the Old
Catholics and then the Liberal Catholics.  It's a mess.

The irregularity lies in "form" "matter" and "intent."  On the last,
there are no bishops at all, but that's a complicated and personal view
..

Alan :-)
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