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The Church Fathers · c. 215; authorship disputed
The Apostolic Tradition
Attributed to Hippolytus of Rome · c. 170–c. 235
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What it is
A manual of ordination prayers, the three-year catechumenate, the baptismal rite with its questions and anointings, and the eucharistic prayer that follows.
Why it lasted
The most influential liturgical document ever recovered: its eucharistic prayer was adopted almost verbatim by Catholic, Anglican, and Lutheran churches in the twentieth century.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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