Mariann Budde is Not a Bishop, True Story

Here a man is saying, she's not a real bishop:

Woke Leftist 'Bishop' Gets Brutal News After Lecturing President Trump
Explain America | 24 Jan. 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtjKijPFPeg

And, in a sense he is right about that exact statement, here is my comment on the video:

She's not a bishop, because she is a woman.
Same problem with even very conservative women pastors trying to celebrate communion.

Plus, in both cases, they are Protestants who lack apostolic succession.

Jesus, the eleven (John 20), people they laid hands on (Acts 1 for Matthias, then Acts 8:19,20 not doing this with Simon Magus), then Paul and Barnabas (Acts 13), then Timothy and Titus (II Tim 1:6), then the people they laid hands on (I Tim 5:22). And so on to the end of time (Matthew 28:16 through 20).

She's not in that line, which Anglicans (with few recent High Church exceptions due to some Orthodox) since Matthew Parker and similar have not been in. Same for Church of Sweden since at least the successor of Laurentius Petri from Nericia. Why? Because he made it clear, he was not ordaining priests to offer up the sacrifice of the Mass, that makes all of his ordinations and all consecrations to episcopacy null and void.

Same is true for a pastor like John McArthur. He's also not the line of the Apostles.

So, she's not a bishop, and Eliud Wabukala, an Anglican bishop from Kenya, so called, is also not a bishop. Given he's in Anglican Realignment, he's definitely conservative and might not ordain women. He's also not a bishop.

But when it comes to her words ... stating she overstepped is like pretending clergy need to be subservient to statesmen. It's like saying St. John Fisher had it coming for opposing Henry VIII, and mind you, his refusal to swear the Oath of Supremacy was much more outspoken. Mariann Budde told the president he might risk overstepping what God grants statesmen in power. St. John Fisher clearly implied that Henry VIII had already done that.

When it came to LGBT people, she may have echoed their undue fears, but she echoed them mildly.

It's even a bit like when a certain Richard Dawkins said that any real bishop accepts Evolution. I'm certain that Bishop Williamson is a real bishop. I am also certain he's a Young Earth Creationist. So, you get no sympathies from me on this one.

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