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Apostolic Tradition, as this text is best known, was identified in the early years of the twentieth century as the work of Hippolytus, a Christian leader from third-century Rome. The text provides liturgical information of great antiquity, and as such has been massively influential on liturgical study and reform, especially in Western churches. Nonetheless, there have been a number of problems...

et al., however, consign this to the fourth century because “although the precise meaning of this chapter is unclear it obviously has something to do with the distribution of Communion and seems primarily concerned about the appropriate roles for bishop, presbyter, and deacon in this ministry.”392 Why this should be a matter for concern in the fourth century and not in the third, or indeed the second, is not obvious. A more reasonable basis to assign this to a later period, or to a non-Roman provenance,
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