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An Apostle meaning one sent on a mission: The Twelve Apostles of Jesus, or something related to them, such as the Church of the Holy Apostles; Apostolic succession, the doctrine connecting the Christian Church to the original Twelve Apostles; The Apostolic Fathers, the earliest generation of post-Biblical Christian writers
Some of the Twelve Apostles.Mosaic in the Euphrasian Basilica.. An apostle (/ ə ˈ p ɒ s əl /), in its literal sense, is an emissary.The word is derived from Ancient Greek ἀπόστολος (apóstolos), literally "one who is sent off", itself derived from the verb ἀποστέλλειν (apostéllein), "to send off".
The Apostles' Creed (Latin: Symbolum Apostolorum or Symbolum Apostolicum), sometimes titled the Apostolic Creed or the Symbol of the Apostles, is a Christian creed or "symbol of faith". The creed most likely originated in 5th-century Gaul as a development of the Old Roman Symbol : the old Latin creed of the 4th century.
Michael Ramsey, an English Anglican bishop and the Archbishop of Canterbury (1961–1974), described three meanings of "apostolic succession": . One bishop succeeding another in the same see meant that there was a continuity of teaching: "while the Church as a whole is the vessel into which the truth is poured, the Bishops are an important organ in carrying out this task".
The Apostolic Constitutions were accepted as canonical by John of Damascus and, in a modified form, included in the 81 book canon of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Even if the text of the Apostolic Constitutions was extant in many libraries during the Middle Ages, it was largely ignored.
The term apostolic letter (littera apostolica in Latin) can designate: Bible parts, which are: the Pauline epistles; the Epistle to the Hebrews; the seven catholic epistles; One of the major types of ecclesiastical document issued by the pope or in his name in Antiquity; in the medieval period; in modern times
The text was found in the late 5th century Latin manuscript known as Verona Palimpsest, where it is the third item in the collection.. A much earlier Ethiopic version translated directly from the Greek around the late 5th century, was discovered in Ethiopia in 1999 in a 13th-century, or earlier, manuscript, amongst the works in a compendium of synodical materials, known as the 'Aksumite ...
The earliest known use of the term "Apostolic(al) Fathers" was by William Wake in 1693, when he was chaplain in ordinary to King William and Queen Mary of England. [2] According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, the use of the term Apostolic Fathers can be traced to the title of a 1672 work by Jean-Baptiste Cotelier, SS.