Apostolic may refer to:

The Apostles

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 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 earliest generation of post-Biblical Christian writers *The Apostolic Age, 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, 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, an apostolic organization based in the United States * Apostolic Catholic Church (Philippines), a church based in the Philippines * Armenian Apostolic Church, also known as the Armenian Orthodox Church, the national church of Armenia * Apostolic Brethren, 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, 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