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 also accuses him of lawlessness.

The Apostolic Constitutions ( compiled c. 380 ) says: " Let the bishop give the oblation, saying, The body of Christ ; and let him that receiveth say, Amen.

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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 ).

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" 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.

St. Paul in opposing his enemies in Galatia names John explicitly along with Peter and James the Just ( the brother of Jesus ) as a " pillar of the Church ", and refers to the recognition which his Apostolic preaching of a Gospel free from the law received from these three, the most prominent men of the old Mother-Church at Jerusalem ( Galatians 2: 9 ).

The names " Holy See " and " Apostolic See " are ecclesiastical terminology for the ordinary jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome ( including the Roman Curia ); the pope's various honors, powers, and privileges within the Catholic Church and the international community derive from his Episcopate of Rome in lineal succession from the Apostle Saint Peter ( see Apostolic Succession ).

A variety of names had been used there previously, including German Apostolic Church and Apostolic Church.

On 4 September 1483, referring to the feast as that of " the Conception of Immaculate Mary ever Virgin ", he condemned both those who called it mortally sinful and heretical to hold that the " glorious and immaculate mother of God was conceived without the stain of original sin " and those who called it mortally sinful and heretical to hold that " the glorious Virgin Mary was conceived with original sin ", since, he said, " up to this time there has been no decision made by the Roman Church and the Apostolic See.

As a child he was taken each Sunday by his mother to the services of the fashionable Scottish presbyterian preacher Edward Irving ( later founder of the Holy Catholic Apostolic Church ), at his chapel in Cross Street, Hatton Garden.

In October 1832, the King formed a moderate royalist Government under Francisco Cea Bermúdez, which tried, almost successfully, to curb the Apostolic party and, through an amnesty, to gain liberal support for Isabella's right to succeed and for Queen Maria Christina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, her mother and designated regent.

Thus, the Church of our Lord Jesus Christ is the mother of a family of predominantly African-American Pentecostal Apostolic organizations.

Greater Refuge Temple Church in New York City is the mother church of the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, an Apostolic Pentecostal denomination.

Marley later adopted the Rastafarian faith, but along with his mother, at first he sung gospel in the local Shilo Apostolic Church.

His mother is Frances Darby, a gospel singer, teacher and counselor who married Bishop James Benjamin Darby, an Apostolic minister of the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ ; who became his stepfather and raised him, hence " his last name changed and later he completed it with the apostrophe ".

In the 17th century James Ussher agreed, and identified the Linus mentioned as the early Bishop of Rome of that name ( Pope Linus's mother's name is given as Claudia in the Apostolic Constitutions ).

Places of worship in Livingston and the immediately surrounding area include a Roman Catholic church, an Apostolic Assembly, an Assemblies of God church, a Southern Baptist church, a Church of Christ, Lutheran and United Methodist churches, a Mennonite church, a United Pentecostal Church, and two Sikh Gurdwaras.

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.

When the day drew near of the departure of Saint Paul the First Hermit in the desert, Saint Anthony went to him and buried him, after clothing him in a tunic which was a present from St Athanasius the Apostolic, the 20th Patriarch of Alexandria.

Francis devoted much of his life to missions in Asia, after being appointed by King John III of Portugal to take charge as Apostolic Nuncio in Portuguese India, where the king believed that Christian values were eroding among the Portuguese.

Pacelli was appointed Apostolic Nuncio to Germany on 23 June 1920, and — after the completion of a Bavarian concordat — his nunciature was moved to Berlin in August 1925.

” As the Holy Apostolic See has made known to us that the blasphemous errors of a certain Photius against the Holy Ghost are still vigorous in the East, errors which teach that the Holy Spirit proceeds not from the Son but from the Father only we exhort you venerable brethren, together with us, in accordance with the admonition of the ruler of the Roman See, after a careful study of the works of the Fathers, to draw from the quiver of Holy Writ arrows sharp enough to slay the monster which is again springing into life .”

In 1843, Pecci, only thirty-four years old, was appointed Apostolic Nuncio to Belgium, a position which guaranteed the Cardinal's hat after completion of the tour.

" On the subject of the vast amount of puns employed in the work Joyce argued to Frank Budgeon that " after all, the Holy Roman Catholic Apostolic Church was built on a pun.

In 1540, after successive appeals to the Pope asking for missionaries for the Portuguese East Indies under the Padroado agreement, John III appointed Francis Xavier to take charge as Apostolic Nuncio.

The three large main branches are Conservative Laestadianism ( corresponds to the Laestadian Lutheran Church, in North America known to other Laestadians as the " Heidemans " after 20th Century leader Paul A. Heideman ); the Firstborn ( in North America, " Old Apostolic Lutheran Church " (" Esikoinens " to other Laestadian denominations ); and the Rauhan Sana (" the Word of Peace ") group, known in the USA and Canada as the Apostolic Lutheran Church of America ( to other Laestadians, the Michelsons after 20th Century leader Andrew Michelson ).

He continued to work at his editions of the Apostolic Fathers, and in 1885 published an edition of the Epistles of Ignatius and Polycarp, collecting also a large store of valuable materials for a second edition of Clement of Rome, which was published after his death ( 1st ed., 1869 ).

Shortly after Armenia adopted Christianity as its state religion ( 301 AD ), the Caucasian Albanian king Urnayr went to the See of the Armenian Apostolic Church to receive baptism from St. Gregory the Illuminator, the first Patriarch of Armenia.

In 1674, with the population of New France growing rapidly and the Seminary of Québec enrolling more students, Pope Clement X elevated the Apostolic Vicariate to a diocese, which would depend directly on the Holy See ; this provision would later secure its permanence after New France passed into the hands of The United Kingdom in 1760.

The Worldwide Pentecostal Fellowship ( hereafter known as WPF ), a group of Apostolic ministers is the newest Oneness body which was organized in 2008 after the UPCI approved the use of television advertising in their churches.

As, assuredly, what must be mainly taken care of and complied with in handling these trials is that they be managed with maximum confidentiality and after the verdict is declared and put into effect never be mentioned again ( 20 February 1867 Instruction of the Holy Office, 14 ), each and every person, who in any way belongs to the tribunal or is given knowledge of the matter because of their office, is obliged to keep inviolate the strictest secrecy ( what is commonly called " the secrecy of the Holy Office ") in all things and with all persons, under pain of automatic ( latae sententiae ) excommunication, incurred ipso facto without need of any declaration other than the present one, and reserved to the Supreme Pontiff in person alone, excluding even the Apostolic Penitentiary.

In his note on this phrase, the translator Herbert Moore says: " According to the ' Apostolic Canons ', only the lower orders of clergy were allowed to marry after their appointment to office ; the Council in Trullo ordered that a bishop's wife should retire to a convent, or become a deaconess ; that of Caesarea, that if a priest marries after ordination he must be degraded.

The style of title " Apostolic King " was confirmed by Pope Clement XIII in 1758 and used afterwards by all the Kings of Hungary, so after this date the kings are referred to as " Apostolic King of Hungary ".