Am I still a priest?
I left the ACNA in 2023. Just received my Letters Dimissory. But I still can’t decide if ordination conferred something real and permanent, or if it was only ever a jurisdictional authorization.
What say you?
@joshuapsteele All I have to contribute is that the Orthodox Church holds that there’s no indelible mark of the priesthood: a laicized priest is no longer a priest in any way. RC, from which Anglicanism draws, sees it differently, as you know.