Article XXI: Of the Authority of General Councils

Fr. Andrew's sermon on Article XXI of The 39 Articles of Religion: Of the Authority of General Councils, preached on the Second Sunday after Trinity (6.4.2026)."General councils may not be gathered together without the commandment and will of princes. And when they be gathered together – forasmuch as they be an assembly of men, whereof all be not governed with the Spirit and Word of God – they may err, and sometimes have erred, even in things pertaining unto God. Wherefore things ordained by them as necessary to salvation have neither strength nor authority, unless it may be declared that they be taken out of Holy Scripture."