<P> The pope's claim to authority is either disputed or not recognised at all by other churches . The reasons for these objections differ from denomination to denomination . </P> <P> Other traditional Christian churches (Assyrian Church of the East, the Oriental Orthodox Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Old Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, the Independent Catholic churches, etc .) accept the doctrine of Apostolic succession and, to varying extents, papal claims to a primacy of honour, while generally rejecting the pope as the successor to Peter in any other sense than that of other bishops . Primacy is regarded as a consequence of the pope's position as bishop of the original capital city of the Roman Empire, a definition explicitly spelled out in the 28th canon of the Council of Chalcedon . These churches see no foundation to papal claims of universal immediate jurisdiction, or to claims of papal infallibility . Several of these churches refer to such claims as ultramontanism . </P> <P> Protestant denominations of Christianity reject the claims of Petrine primacy of honor, Petrine primacy of jurisdiction, and papal infallibility . These denominations vary from simply not accepting the pope's claim to authority as legitimate and valid, to believing that the pope is the Antichrist from 1 John 2: 18, the Man of Sin from 2 Thessalonians 2: 3--12, and the Beast out of the Earth from Revelation 13: 11--18 . </P> <P> This sweeping rejection is held by, among others, some denominations of Lutherans: Confessional Lutherans hold that the pope is the Antichrist, stating that this article of faith is part of a quia ("because") rather than quatenus ("insofar as") subscription to the Book of Concord . In 1932, one of these Confessional churches, the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod (LCMS), adopted A Brief Statement of the Doctrinal Position of the Missouri Synod, which a small number of Lutheran church bodies now hold . The Lutheran Churches of the Reformation (1), the Concordia Lutheran Conference (2), the Church of the Lutheran Confession (3), and the Illinois Lutheran Conference (4) all hold to the Brief Statement, which the LCMS places on its website . The Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS), another Confessional Lutheran church that declares the Papacy to be the Antichrist, released its own statement, the "Statement on the Antichrist", in 1959 . The WELS still holds to this statement . </P>

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