"In England, shortly after it was rent from the centre of Christian unity, a new rite for conferring Holy Orders was publicly introduced under Edward VI, the true Sacrament of Orders, as instituted by Christ, lapsed, and with it the hierarchial succession."
-Pope Leo XIII (Apostolic Letter Apostolicae Curae, September 13, 1896).
http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Leo13/l13curae.htm
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