Apostolic may refer to:

The Apostles

An Apostle meaning one sent on a mission: *The

Twelve Apostles In Christian theology and ecclesiology, the apostles, particularly the Twelve Apostles (also known as the Twelve Disciples or simply the Twelve), were the primary disciples of Jesus according to the New Testament. During the life and minist ...

of Jesus, or something related to them, such as the Church of the Holy Apostles *

Apostolic succession Apostolic succession is the method whereby the ministry of the Christian Church is held 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 bish ...

, the doctrine connecting the Christian Church to the original Twelve Apostles *The

Apostolic Fathers The Apostolic Fathers, also known as the Ante-Nicene Fathers, were core Christian theologians among the Church Fathers who lived in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD who are believed to have personally known some of the Twelve Apostles or to have be ...

, the earliest generation of post-Biblical Christian writers *The

Apostolic Age Christianity in the 1st century covers the formative history of Christianity from the start of the ministry of Jesus (–29 AD) to the death of the last of the Twelve Apostles () and is thus also known as the Apostolic Age. Early Christianity ...

, the period of Christian history when Jesus' apostles were living *The ''

Apostolic Constitutions The ''Apostolic Constitutions'' or ''Constitutions of the Holy Apostles'' (Latin: ''Constitutiones Apostolorum'') is a Christian collection divided into eight books which is classified among the Church Orders, a genre of early Christian litera ...

'', part of the Ante-Nicene Fathers collection

Specific to the Roman Catholic Church

Apostolic Administrator An Apostolic administration in the Catholic Church is administrated by a prelate appointed by the pope to serve as the ordinary for a specific area. Either the area is not yet a diocese (a stable 'pre-diocesan', usually missionary apostolic admi ...

, appointed by the Pope to an apostolic administration or a diocese without a bishop *

Apostolic Camera The Apostolic Camera ( la, Camera Apostolica), formerly known as the was an office in the Roman Curia. It was the central board of finance in the papal administrative system and at one time was of great importance in the government of the Stat ...

, or "Apostolic Chamber", former department of finance for Papal administration * Apostolic constitution, a public decree issued by the Pope * Apostolic Palace, the residence of the Pope in Vatican City *

Apostolic prefect An apostolic prefect or prefect apostolic is a priest who heads what is known as an apostolic prefecture, a 'pre-diocesan' missionary jurisdiction where the Catholic Church is not yet sufficiently developed to have it made a diocese. Although it ...

, the head of a mission of the Roman Catholic Church *The Apostolic See, sometimes used to refer to the See of Rome; see * Apostolic vicariate, a territorial jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Church *

Chancery of Apostolic Briefs The Secretariat of State (Latin: ''Secretaria Status''; Italian: ''Segreteria di Stato'') is the oldest dicastery in the Roman Curia, the central papal governing bureaucracy of the Catholic Church. It is headed by the Cardinal Secretary of State ...

, a historical office charged with preparation of Papal correspondence

National churches

Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith The Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith is a Oneness Pentecostal church with headquarters in Manhattan. It was founded in 1919 by Robert C. Lawson. The church's mission statement is: "To evangelize the world for Jesus Christ; ...

, an apostolic organization based in the United States * Apostolic Catholic Church (Philippines), a church based in the Philippines *

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, also known as the Armenian Orthodox Church, the national church of Armenia *

Apostolic Brethren The Apostolic Brethren (sometimes referred to as Apostolici, Apostoli, Apostles) were a Christianity, Christian sect founded in northern Italy in the latter half of the 13th century by Gerard Segarelli, a native of Alzano in the territory of Parma. ...

, a 13th-century sect in northern Italy * The Apostolic Church Nigeria, a Lagos-based Pentecostal Christian denomination in Nigeria, affiliated with the Apostolic Church *

Assyrian Church of the East The Assyrian Church of the East,, ar, كنيسة المشرق الآشورية sometimes called Church of the East, officially the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East,; ar, كنيسة المشرق الآشورية الرسول� ...

, ancient Christian religious body from Assyria

Christian denominations

* Apostolic Christian Church, an anabaptist branch of Christianity * Laestadianism, or Apostolic Lutheranism, a pietistic Lutheran movement *

Apostolic Pastoral Congress The Apostolic Pastoral Congress or Apostolic Pastoral Congress of Great Britain, is a collegiate collective of Christian bishops, pastors and other clergy in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The Apostolic Pastoral Congress ...

, an organization consisting of Pentecostal bishops, pastors and other clergy, functioning as a collegiate collective, and founded during the first decade of the 21st century * Catholic Apostolic Church, a millenarian religious community, related to the Irvingism movement * Celtic Orthodox Church, also known as the Catholic Apostolic Church (Catholicate of the West), a name adopted in the 1940s by a movement to restore ancient Christianity in Britain and the West * Christ Apostolic Church, an indigenous African church *

New Apostolic Church The New Apostolic Church (NAC) is a Christian denomination, Christian church that split from the Catholic Apostolic Church during an 1863 schism in Hamburg, Germany. The church has existed since 1863 in Germany and since 1897 in the Ne ...

, a chiliastic (premillenarian) church * Oneness Pentecostalism, also known as Apostolic Pentecostalism, a form of Pentecostal Christianity that is non-trinitarian in theology

Concepts

*An

apostolic see An apostolic see is an episcopal see whose foundation is attributed to one or more of the apostles of Jesus or to one of their close associates. In Catholicism the phrase, preceded by the definite article and usually capitalized, refers to the S ...

, any episcopal see whose foundation is attributed to one or more of the Apostles * Apostolic poverty, a doctrine professed in the 13th century by certain religious orders * Apostolic King, hereditary title of the King of Hungary

The Apostles

Specific to the Roman Catholic Church

National churches

Christian denominations

Concepts

See also