Catholic Church and Ecumenism - Relations With Anglican Churches - Apostolicae Curae

In 1896 Pope Leo XIII issued Apostolicae Curae rejecting the Anglo-Catholic claims of the Oxford Movement and the Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral such as apostolic succession. In it the pope declared Anglican orders "absolutely null and utterly void." The official reply of the Archbishops of the Church of England was Saepius Officio. The judgment remain in effect to the present. The judgement of nullity was reaffirmed in 1998 by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, when he asserted Apostolicae Curae as an example of the infallible teaching office of the Catholic Church.