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ApostasyActive rejection, desertion or revolt of previous belief. | ||
ApostateA person that forsakes previous belief. | ||
ApostleAn ambassador of the Gospel that spreads His Word as commissioned by Jesus Christ. | ||
Apostle's CreedAn early statement of Christian belief that dates back to about a half century after the last of the New Testament writings (AD 500). This creed is traditionally chanted and widely accepted among most Christian churches. I believe in God, the Father Almighty, the Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord: | ||
ApostolateThe dignified office of an apostle. In the Roman Catholic Church, the Pope heads the Apostolic See, bishops assume mission as Apostolates in their dioceses, and the laity organize their devotions to the mission of the church. | ||
ApostolicPossessing the dignified characteristic of an Apostle commissioned by Jesus Christ as an ambassador to the Gospel. It is often the term used to describe the succession of spiritual authority from the apostles to Church authority, an important ingredient for validation of sacraments and orders. | ||
Apostolic AgeThe earliest period of Christianity that lasted to the death of the last of the twelve apostles, which dates from the crucifixion of Jesus Christ to the death of Apostle John in c. 115. | ||
Apostolic FathersThe fathers of the early Christian church whose lives overlapped those of the twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ, and the collection of works that are attributed to them. | ||
Apostolic SeeAn episcopal see whose foundation derives from one of the apostles efforts. The five major sees Rome, in Italy (Saint Peter and Paul the Apostle) Constantinople, now Istanbul in present-day Turkey (Saint Andrew) Alexandria, in present-day Egypt (Saint Mark the Evangelist) Antioch, in present-day Turkey (Saint Peter) Jerusalem, in the Holy Land (Saint Peter and Saint James) There are also some other minor sees that claim their origins begin with Apostles and claim their right to be called an Apostolic See. Other Claims Aquileia, in northeastern Italy (Mark the Evangelist) Archdiocese of Athens, Greece (Saint Paul) Armenian Apostolic Church (Thaddeus (Jude the Apostle) and Bartholomew the Apostle) Corinth, in Greece (Saint Paul) Ephesus, in present-day Turkey (John the Apostle) Malta (Saint Paul) Paphos, in Cyprus (Barnabas and Paul) Philippi, in Greece (Saint Paul) Saint Thomas Christians (Thomas the Apostle) See of Milan, in northwestern Italy (Barnabas the Apostle) See of Syracuse, in Sicily (Saint Peter) Seleucia-Ctesiphon, in present-day Iraq (Thomas the Apostle, Bartholomew the Apostle, and Thaddeus of Edessa) Thessaloniki, in Greece (Saint Paul) | ||