Why are some Protestant sacraments valid?

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Hi everyone!

I know per the RCC, that sacraments require: form, matter, intent, and minister.

How can any religion outside the RCC administer some of the sacraments validly (marriage, baptism, and confirmation) if they don’t have the minister?

No one, not even the Episcopal Church has valid or licit ministers in apostolic succession, per the RCC.
 
Baptism does not require a priest; you or I could do it.
Marriage is administered mutually by the couple; the priest is not actually necessary for a valid marriage.

As for the rest, a priest or bishop is needed. The question at hand for Anglicans is not whether there is Apostolic succession (there is), but whether the Holy Orders are valid since modifications early in the English Reformation.
 
The sacraments that protestants have don’t require the sacrament of Holy Orders to perform. The others (Holy Orders, Reconciliation, Anointing, etc.) do require a valid minister (bishop, priest or deacon).
 
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