No, not at all. BTW, thank you for the excerpt, it revealed a lot. Deacons are nothing more than assistants, they hold no power nor authority, for even women were allowed to be deacons. Thus, Ignatius was wrong in his reverence towards them, equating it with God, that is. They do have a hierarchy, and are to be respected as much as their duties warrant, but not, as Ignatius states 'with the same reverence as you would a command from God'. Deacons can be deposed, the Words of God cannot be altered or defied.
Thus, no one has kept the apostolic tradition. The Church that you belong to, whether it be considered Roman or Western or Catholic, has a very distinct delineation and circumscription, in both its theology and geography and demograph, irrespective of what it's called. You are wrong to have such implicit faith in such an institution that was derived from such secular and specious origins.
