Usually means: Transmission of authority from apostles.
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  1. apostolic succession: Merriam-Webster
  2. apostolic succession: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Apostolic succession: Collins English Dictionary
  4. apostolic succession: Wiktionary
  5. apostolic succession: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  6. apostolic succession: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. apostolic succession: Dictionary.com
  8. Apostolic Succession, Apostolic succession (LDS Church), Apostolic succession: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Apostolic succession, succession, apostolic: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. apostolic succession: Merriam-Webster

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  1. Apostolic succession, succession, apostolic: Encyclopedia

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Apostolic Succession: Catholic Encyclopedia
  2. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  3. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (apostolic succession)

noun:  (Christianity) The unbroken chain of consecrations by laying on of hands from the Apostles of Jesus Christ to the bishops, and from to bishop to bishop through the ages.

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