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==Beliefs== | ==Beliefs== | ||
===Sacraments=== | ===Sacraments=== | ||
The College of Levantine Churches preaches two {{wp|sacraments}} - {{wp|baptism}} and the {{wp|Eucharist}} - teaching that these were directly established by {{wp|Jesus Christ}} in the {{wp|gospels}}. | |||
====Eucharist==== | ====Eucharist==== | ||
====Holy Orders==== | |||
Although commonly thought of as a sacrament, the College teaches holy orders cannot be a sacrament directly because it rejects a {{wp|Sacerdotalism|sacerdotalist}} understanding of the Christian faithful, teaching that holy orders is a conveyance of a sacred trust to bishops and clerics while arguing that Christ alone is the mediator of the Christian faithful. Despite this, the College teaches that holy orders nonetheless has a "sacramental character" confering the status of {{Wp|Apostolic succession|successor of the Apostles}}. {{wp|Ordination of women}} is prohibited within the College of Levantine Churches. Historically, resolutions on the issue are proposed and defeated in each year's session of the Congress of Bishops. | |||
===Mary=== | ===Mary=== | ||
The College of Levantine Churches professes that views of Mary's {{wp|Assumption of Mary|Assumption}}, {{wp|Perpetual Virginity of Mary|perpetual virginity}}, and other related beliefs usually related to [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] {{wp|Mariology}} are extrabiblical claims that may or may not be held by individual believers but are not necessary to the Christian life. This position, known as the "Collegiate Compromise", was designed to reconcile the traditional beliefs of the {{wp|Evangelical Catholic}} and {{wp|Old Catholic}} segments of the Church with the more conventionally {{wp|Calvinist|Reformed}} views. Under this posisition, the College of Levantine Churches makes no definitive claim on the truth of these concepts but rejects the importance placed upon them by the [[Catholic Church]]. | The College of Levantine Churches professes that views of Mary's {{wp|Assumption of Mary|Assumption}}, {{wp|Perpetual Virginity of Mary|perpetual virginity}}, and other related beliefs usually related to [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] {{wp|Mariology}} are extrabiblical claims that may or may not be held by individual believers but are not necessary to the Christian life. This position, known as the "Collegiate Compromise", was designed to reconcile the traditional beliefs of the {{wp|Evangelical Catholic}} and {{wp|Old Catholic}} segments of the Church with the more conventionally {{wp|Calvinist|Reformed}} views. Under this posisition, the College of Levantine Churches makes no definitive claim on the truth of these concepts but rejects the importance placed upon them by the [[Catholic Church]]. | ||