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Episcopal Coat of Arms of
His Eminence,
+The Most Reverend Russell Francis Coates, Jr., FDP,
M.Div.
Metropolitan and FDP Founder

Bishop Coates
has valid Apostolic Succession from the Episcopal lines of:
Archbishop Carlos Duarte Costa
(b. in 1888; d. in 1961),
Bishop
of Maura, Bishop Emeritus of Botucatu (Roman Catholic Church) (prior to
1945),
Igreja Católica Apostólica Brasileira (post 1945),
whose line of Apostolic Succession
dates back to:
Scipione
Cardinal Rebiba
(b.1505-d.1577),
Bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto of the
Latin Rite
(Roman Catholic Church)
and also through the Apostolic Succession of the Orthodox Rite beginning
with:
Bishop
Dionysius the Great of Alexandria (Born
late 2nd, early 3rd century-Died November 17, 265),
Jurisdiction of the Greek Orthodox Church, the Holy See of Saint Mark,
Alexandria.


+The Most Reverend Russell F. Coates, Jr., FDP, M.Div.
Metropolitan
TRINITARIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
Consecrated to the Episcopacy
according to the Rite of the,
Pontificale Romanum,
May 23, 2004
for
The Metropolitan Diocese of Hope (USA)
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Historical
Episcopate
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episcopate is the collective body of all bishops of a church. In
the Roman Catholic, Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Eastern Rite
Catholic, Oriental Orthodox, Old-Catholic, Moravian Church,
Trinitarian Catholic Church and most other Independent Catholic
churches as well as in the Assyrian Church of the East, it is held
that only a person in Apostolic Succession, a line of succession of
bishops dating back to the Apostles, can be a bishop, and only such
a person can validly ordain Christian clergy. The succession must be
transmitted from each bishop to a successor by the rite of Holy
Orders. Bishops in valid Apostolic Succession compose the
historical episcopate. Bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran
Church in America also claim to be ordained through the laying on of
hands of bishops in the apostolic succession.
The Roman Catholic Church holds that a
bishop's consecration is valid if the sacrament of Holy Orders is
validly administered with the intention of doing what the Church
does by ordination and according to a valid sacramental form, and if
the consecrating bishop's orders are valid, regardless of whether
the rite takes place within or outside of the Roman Catholic Church.
Thus, Roman Catholics recognize the validity of the episcopacy of
Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Assyrian Church of the East and
Old Catholic bishops, but the situation is less clear regarding
Anglican bishops and some Independent Catholic bishops (aka Episcopi
vagantes).
The Eastern Orthodox Church's view
has been summarized as follows: "While accepting the canonical
possibility of recognizing the existence (υποστατόν) of sacraments
performed outside herself, (the Eastern Orthodox Church) questions
their validity (έγκυρον) and certainly rejects their efficacy (ενεργόν)";
and it sees "the canonical recognition (αναγνώρισις) of the validity
of sacraments performed outside the Orthodox Church (as referring)
to the validity of the sacraments only of those who join the
Orthodox Church (individually or as a body)." This applies to the
validity and efficacy of the ordination of bishops and the other
sacraments, not only of the Independent Catholic Churches, but
also of all other Christian Churches, including the Roman
Catholic Church, Oriental Orthodoxy, and the Assyrian Church of
the East.
The Eastern Orthodox position on
Anglican orders (in the hypothesis of Anglican bishops joining the
Orthodox Church individually or as a body) is a grey area, involving
disagreements among national churches, theologians and bishops.
Because of changes in the Ordinal (the rites of Holy Orders) under
King Edward VI, the Roman Catholic Church does not fully recognize
all Anglican Holy Orders as valid, but the latter are recognized
(and participated in) by Old Catholics, whose Holy Orders are
considered valid by Rome.
Lutheran and other episcopally
ordered Protestant successions are not recognized by Roman
Catholics. The Anglican Church does not recognize the orders of non-episcopal
denominations.
The Trinitarian Catholic Church
recognizes the historical preeminence of the Jerusalem Church, the
earliest Semetic-Christian church, under the episcopal authority of
the first Christian bishop, +James the Great who was the brother of
Jesus. They, together with the Orthodox, Eastern,
Asian and African churches are the true remnant of the earliest
Christian churches, in all their great diversity, established by the
first Apostles. The Trinitarian Catholic Church recognizes the
validity of the Apostolic Succession of all the churches of the West
and the East that were founded by the first Apostles. We also fully
recognize the validity of the Holy Orders of the Anglican Church,
the Episcopal Church, the Lutheran Church, the Old Catholic and most
Independent and Autocephalous Catholic churches and those episcopally ordered Protestant successions proceeding from the
post-Reformation era led by valid bishops who broke from the Church of
Rome.
Bishop Coates and more than 91% of
the world's more than 5,000 Western bishops alive today trace their episcopal lineage back to a 15th Century
Roman Catholic bishop, Scipione
Cardinal Rebiba. In the early 18th century, Pope Benedict XIII,
whose orders were descended from Rebiba, personally consecrated at
least 139 bishops for various important European sees, including
German, French, English and New World bishops. These bishops in turn
consecrated bishops almost exclusively for their respective
countries, effectively causing other episcopal lines to die out.
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