---
title: 'Discourses on the Apostolic Succession'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'William Davis Snodgrass'
date: 1844-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Ecclesiology (General)'
- 'Reformation History'
scriptures:
- 'Judges 17'
- 'Matthew 28'
- 'Acts 17'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/snodgrass-1844-discourses-on-the-apostolic-succession
---

# Discourses on the Apostolic Succession

Snodgrass critiques apostolical succession, arguing from Scripture and history that episcopal succession doesn't uniquely authorize ministry. He defends a Protestant view of true succession.

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