In the early 3rd century the Canons of the Apostolic Constitutions decreed that only lower clerics might still marry after their ordination, but marriage of bishops, priests, and deacons were not allowed.

The Apostolic Canons or Ecclesiastical Canons of the Same Holy Apostles is a collection of ancient ecclesiastical decrees ( eighty-five in the Eastern, fifty in the Western Church ) concerning the government and discipline of the Early Christian Church, incorporated with the Apostolic Constitutions which are part of the Ante-Nicene Fathers

A version of the Apostolic Constitutions used by the sect of the Audiani advised:

Caesarea's Christian community presumably had a history reaching back to apostolic times, but it is a common claim that no bishops are attested for the town before about AD 190, even though the Apostolic Constitutions 7. 46 states that Zacchaeus was the first bishop.

The Apostolic Constitutions says that Linus was the first bishop of Rome and was ordained by Paul, and that he was succeeded by Clement, who was ordained by Peter.

The Apostolic Constitutions names his mother as Claudia ( immediately after the name " Linus " in 2 Timothy 4: 21 a Claudia is mentioned, but the Apostolic Constitutions does not explicitly identify that Claudia as Linus's mother ).

The Apostolic Constitutions also accuses him of lawlessness.

* Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus of Pettau, Dionysius of Corinth, Apostolic Constitutions, Homily, Liturgies, Liturgy of St James,

Gaudium et Spes (, Joy and Hope ), the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, was one of the four Apostolic Constitutions resulting from the Second Vatican Council.

The later Apostolic Constitutions identify " Zacchaeus the Publican " as the first bishop of Caesarea ( 7. 46 ).

* Apostolic Constitutions

" Apostolic Constitutions ( compiled c. 390, E ) 7. 392.

Vespers, then, was the most solemn Office of the day and was composed of the psalms called Lucernales ( Psalm 140 is called psalmus lucernalis by the Apostolic Constitutions, VIII, xxxv ; cf.

The " Apostolic Constitutions " ( VIII, xxi, 34, 35 ) describe it in almost the same terms as the " Peregrinatio ".

The Canons of the Apostles or Ecclesiastical Canons of the Same Holy Apostles is a collection of ancient ecclesiastical decrees ( eighty-five in the Eastern, fifty in the Western Church ) concerning the government and discipline of the Early Christian Church, incorporated with the Apostolic Constitutions which are part of the Ante-Nicene Fathers

The Apostolic Canons of the Apostolic Constitutions decreed that only lower clerics might still marry after their ordination.

It is accepted by the Apostolic Constitutions Canon 85, John of Damascus and the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.

The Apostolic Church-Ordinances has used a part, the Apostolic Constitutions have embodied the Didascalia.

, or, or ) ( c. 257 – c. 331 ) is the patron saint and first official head of the Armenian Apostolic Church.

Unfinished painting of St. Jerome in the Wilderness, ( c. 1480 ), Apostolic Palace | Vatican.

Before Origen's time, the evidence is inconclusive ; there is a lack of definite early quotations from the letter in the writings of the Apostolic Fathers, though possible use or influence has been located in the works of Clement of Alexandria ( d. c. 211 ), Theophilius ( d. c. 183 ), Aristides ( d. c. 134 ), Polycarp ( d. 155 ), and Justin ( d. 165 ).

* Hungary: His Apostolic Majesty ( awarded c. 1000, renewed in 1758 )

The Apostolic Age of the history of Christianity is traditionally the period of the Twelve Apostles, dating from the Crucifixion of Jesus ( c. 30-33 ) and the Great Commission in Jerusalem until the death of John the Apostle ( c. 115 ) in Anatolia.

" The Council of Jerusalem, c. 50, issued the Apostolic Decree ( Acts 15 ) in regards to new gentile converts, which included a prohibition against " fornication ", thus the Apostles presented themselves as effecting ( among other things ) a separation from pagan sexual morality, though it was not given to the church to use physical force to enact capital punishment ( till the advent of Constantine I and Christianity ).

* The Seven Apostolic Men, Martyr Bishops, ordained in Rome by Saints Peter and Paul and sent to evangelize Spain ( 1st c .):

The period is generally considered to run from the end of New Testament times or end of the Apostolic Age ( c. AD 100 ) to either AD 451 ( the date of the Council of Chalcedon ), or to the 8th century Second Council of Nicaea, see also First seven Ecumenical Councils.

The Anglican Communion considers itself to be part of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church and to be both Catholic and Reformed.

All churches apart from the Armenian Apostolic Church must register with the government, and proselytizing was forbidden by law, though since 1997 the government has pursued more moderate policies.

* 1546 – Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect, designed the Apostolic Palace ( b. 1484 )

In 1884, he was created by Pope Leo XIII Archbishop of Caesarea in partibus and sent to India as an Apostolic Delegate to report on the establishment of the hierarchy there.

In 1889 he became papal Apostolic Nuncio to Bavaria at Munich and in 1892 at Vienna.

In 1903, he was named vice-chancellor of the Catholic Church, and became the Chancellor of the Apostolic Chancery in the Secretariat of State in 1908.

The link between the Mosaic Law and Alfred's code is the " Apostolic Letter ," which explained that Christ " had come not to shatter or annul the commandments but to fulfill them ; and he taught mercy and meekness " ( Intro, 49. 1 ).

The Acts of the Apostles (, Práxeis tōn Apostólōn ; ), usually referred to simply as Acts, is the fifth book of the New Testament ; Acts outlines the history of the Apostolic Age.

Acts tells the story of the Apostolic Age of the Early Christian church, with particular emphasis on the ministry of the Twelve Apostles and of Paul of Tarsus.

The decision of the Council came to be called the Apostolic Decree () and was that most Mosaic law, including the requirement for circumcision of males, was not obligatory for Gentile converts, possibly in order to make it easier for them to join the movement.

On this passage the theologian Joseph Barber Lightfoot ( Apostolic Fathers, 1885, II, p. 84 ) noted: " Clement may possibly be referring to some known, but hardly accessible land, lying without the pillars of Hercules.

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 bishops.

This lineage of ordination is traceable, according to " apostolic " churches, to the original Twelve Apostles, thus making the Church the continuation of the early Apostolic Christian community.

Beyond indifference, some conservative Lutherans are in principle outright against the traditional doctrine of Apostolic Succession, e. g., Confessional Lutheranism ( see also subsection Confessional Lutheranism herein below ).

Confessional Lutheranism rejects Apostolic succession, stating that that there's no evidence the Popes have historic succession from Peter other than their own claim that it is so.

The duly blessed oil used in the sacrament is, as laid down in the Apostolic Constitution Sacram unctionem infirmorum, pressed from olives or from other plants.

In course of time the Apostolic Chancery adopted this mode of writing as the " curial " style, still further abridging by omitting the diphthongs ae and oe, and likewise all lines and marks of punctuation.

The ecclesiastical Abbreviators were officials of the Holy See, among the principal officials of the Apostolic Chancery, which is one of the oldest and most important offices in the Roman Curia.

2, " Romani "), made them Referendaries of Favours, and after three years of service, Referendaries of Justice, enjoying the privileges of Referendaries and permitting one to assist in the signatures before the Pope, giving all a right to a portion in the papal palace and exempting them from the registration of favours as required by Pius IV ( Const., 98 ) with regard to matters pertaining to the Apostolic Chamber.

* A. C. McGiffert, History of Christianity in the Apostolic Age.

By the mid-nineteenth century there were Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist, United Free Methodist, Congregationalist, Baptist, Swedenborgian, Unitarian, Roman Catholic and Catholic Apostolic churches in the town.

296-298 – d. 2 May 373 ), also referred to as St. Athanasius the Great, St. Athanasius I of Alexandria, St Athanasius the Confessor and ( primarily in the Coptic Orthodox Church ) St Athanasius the Apostolic, was the 20th bishop of Alexandria.