text: Their ordination rituals were invalid in themselves, perhaps, at one time. They probably do not still have those “defects.”
  Apostolic Succession is a more thorny issue, but the Old Catholic movement after Vatican I probably means many, if not most, have a fairly solid line of Succession from the Apostles, not that it means much.
  Then there is the questions that arise when Popes give Anglicans, usually the Abp of Canterbury, symbols of the episcopacy, like pectoral crosses. Or when the bishops of Rome and Canterbury pray together as bishops, etc. The issues are murkier than “absolutely null and void” suggests.