“For if where two or three are gathered together in His name, he says He
is there in the midst of them, how much more will He not show His
companionship with five hundred and twenty priests, who preferred the
spread of knowledge concerning Him to their own home and affairs, when
you, as head to the members, showed your good will through those who
represented you.”
Pope St. Gregory the Great, Letter to the Patriarchs of
Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem 1, 24 (591 AD)
“But all persons that the aforesaid Councils (Nicaea, Constantinople I &
II, Ephesus, Chalcedon) reject, I reject; those whom they venerate, I
embrace; because, since those Councils were shaped by universal consent,
anyone who presumes either to loose whom they bind or to bind whom they
loose overthrows not them but himself. Whoever, therefore, deems
otherwise, let him be anathema.”
Catechism of the Council of Trent (1566)
Pt. II, Ch. VIII: For the Holy Ghost, who presides over the Church,
governs her by no other ministers than those of Apostolic succession. This
Spirit, first imparted to the Apostles, has by the infinite goodness of God
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