The Role of Sacramental Laying on of Hands in the Early Church

The commission's third line of argumentation is a reference to the 7th century Byzantine Council in Trullo AD 692. It analyzed the contents of Acts 6, 1 through 6 and taught that the seven were not ordained deacons. "It's not out of bounds for a Catholic to question the common appeal to this passage as biblical justification for ordained deacons," he says.