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The Conversion of Saint Paul, Luca Giordano, 1690, Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy The Conversion of Saint Paul, Caravaggio, 1600. The conversion of Paul the Apostle (also the Pauline conversion, Damascene conversion, Damascus Christophany and Paul's "road to Damascus" event) was, according to the New Testament, an event in the life of Saul/Paul the Apostle that led him to cease persecuting early ...
[note 12] Marcion asserted that Paul was the only apostle who had rightly understood the new message of salvation as delivered by Christ. [374] Marcion believed Jesus was the savior sent by God, and Paul the Apostle was his chief apostle, but he rejected the Hebrew Bible and the God of Israel.
The Episcopal consecration of Deodatus; Claude Bassot [] (1580–1630). Apostolic succession is the method whereby the ministry of the Christian Church is considered by some Christian denominations to be derived from the apostles by a continuous succession, which has usually been associated with a claim that the succession is through a series of bishops. [1]
Due to the needs of other churches, requiring his presence elsewhere, he ordained his disciple Titus as bishop of that island, [10] and left him to finish the work he had started. Chrysostom says that this is an indication of the esteem Paul held for Titus. [5] Paul summoned Titus from Crete to join him at Nicopolis in Epirus. [11]
Vocation of the Apostles, a fresco in the Sistine Chapel by Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1481-82. The commissioning of the Twelve Apostles is an episode in the ministry of Jesus that appears in all three Synoptic Gospels: Matthew 10:1–4, Mark 3:13–19 and Luke 6:12–16.
33 – Great Commission of Jesus to go and make disciples of all nations; [1] Pentecost, a day in which 3000 Jews from a variety of Mediterranean Basin nations are converted to faith in Jesus Christ. 34 – In Gaza, Philip baptizes a convert, an Ethiopian who was already a Jewish proselyte. 34 – Saul of Tarsus is converted.
Using the original Greek words, both titles are descriptive, as an apostle is one sent on a mission (the Greek uses the verb form: apesteilen) whereas a disciple is a student, but the two traditions differ on the scope of the words apostle and disciple.
Joseph Angell Young was ordained an apostle in 1864 but was never a member of either the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles or the First Presidency. Joseph F. Smith, Brigham Young, Jr., and Sylvester Q. Cannon had each been ordained as apostles before eventually being called into the Quorum of the Twelve.