Edwardine Ordinals
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The Edwardine Ordinals are two ordinals primarily written by Thomas Cranmer as influenced by Martin Bucer and first published under Edward VI, the first in 1550 and the second in 1552, for the Church
Title page of the 1550 Edwardine Ordinal
An early 16th-century illuminated Roman Pontifical
Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury
Edward VI, who authorized the production of both ordinals, was 9 years old when he became king in 1547.
Apostolicae curae
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Apostolicae curae is the title of an apostolic letter, issued in 1896 by Pope Leo XIII, declaring all Anglican ordinations to be "absolutely null and utterly void". The Anglican Communion made no offi
Edwardine Ordinals
…for both the Vestiarian Controversy and, much later, some of the debate over the validity of Anglican holy orders and the subsequent 1896 papal bull Apostolicae curae where they were declared "absolutely null and utterly void" by the Catholic Church. The word ordinal in the medieval period, rather than applying to a…
The bull of Pope Leo XIII declared all Anglican orders "absolutely null and utterly void"
Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury
William Maclagan, Archbishop of York
Statue of Cardinal Basil Hume in Newcastle