| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Just as Israel is a kingdom of priests" and yet the Levites are set aside as the sacerdotal priesthood, so does the Church maintain the priesthood of all believers" alongside the priesthood of Melchizedek as the sacerdotal priesthood of Christians, to which all Orthodox presbyters and bishops belong.Vladimir Lossky addresses this in his Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church when he explains th
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