Can non catholic ordained ministers perform transsubstantiation?

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If a minister is ordained in a non catholic faith, do they still have the power of transsubstantiation when consecrating communion.?
 
In order to validly consecrate the Eucharist the priest needs to be validly ordained. This means that that he needs to have been ordained by a validly ordained Bishop. There are examples of validly ordained non-Catholics in the Eastern Orthodox Churches and various schismatic groups that have broken off of the Catholic Church throughout history (e.g. the Polish National Catholic Church).

When it comes to most mainline Protestant denominations, however, this is not the case. Most of them either did not maintain a valid line of Apostolic Succession or changed the theology of the sacraments so much as to render the intent of the minister invalid.

For further reading:
International Theological Commission’s Catholic Teaching on Apostolic Succession
 
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