Another example is its self-description as the " Holy, Catholic, Apostolic and Roman Church " in the 24 April 1870 Dogmatic Constitution on the Catholic Faith of the First Vatican Council.

However, the church asserts that Apostolic Succession also requires Apostolic Faith, and bishops without Apostolic Faith, who are in heresy, forfeit their claim to Apostolic Succession.

Parham called his new movement the Apostolic Faith.

According to the first issue of William Seymore's newsletter, " The Apostolic Faith ," from 1906:

Religious minorities include followers of various sects of Sunni Islam, Mystic Islam, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity ( including the adherents of the Assyrian Church of the East, Armenian Apostolic Church, Roman Catholic Church, Chaldean Catholic Church, Iranian Protestant churches like Jama ' at-e Rabbani ( Assemblies of God ), Armenian Evangelical Church, Armenian Brotherhood Church, Russian Orthodox Church, and the Presbyterian Church ) and some from the Bahá ' í Faith.

The Apostolic Faith Church ( AFC ), formerly the Apostolic Faith Mission, is a Pentecostal Christian denomination with headquarters in Portland, Oregon, United States.

By 1908, Crawford and Seymour had severed ties, and Crawford founded what would become the Apostolic Faith Church.

Since July 2000, the President and Superintendent General of the Apostolic Faith Church has been Darrel D. Lee, who also pastors the headquarters church.

The Apostolic Faith Church has a presence in the United States, Canada, Africa, Asia, and Europe.

In some locations, member churches carry instead the name Trinity Apostolic Faith Church in order to differentiate themselves from non-affiliated churches in the same area.

The founder of the Apostolic Faith Church was Florence L. Crawford.

This revival began in 1906 at the Apostolic Faith Mission in Los Angeles.

The Azusa Street Mission, as it was called, quickly became the center of the Apostolic Faith movement mainly through the publication of The Apostolic Faith newspaper.

Some descendants of the Catholic Apostolic Church also known as Irvingism, such as Apostelamt Jesu Christi, Apostelamt Juda, Restored Apostolic Mission Church and the Old Apostolic Church also believes in the allegorical interpretation of the Bible.

* Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa

* Apostolic Faith Mission of Namibia ( Namibia )

Out of this sprang the Allgemeine Christliche Apostolische Mission ( ACAM ) in 1863 and the Dutch branch of the Restored Apostolic Mission Church ( at first known as Apostolische Zending, since 1893 officially registered as Hersteld Apostolische Zendingkerk ( HAZK )).

The Apostolic Faith Mission on Azusa Street, now considered to be the birthplace of Pentecostalism.

The Bible Standard Conference was formed in 1919 after Fred Hornshuh and several other ministers withdrew from the Apostolic Faith Mission ( AFM ) led by Florence L. Crawford.

* Bishop William J. Seymour, Pastor of the Apostolic Faith Mission

In Durban, South Africa in 1951 he addressed meetings sponsored by the Apostolic Faith Mission, the Assemblies of God, the Pentecostal Holiness Church, and the Full Gospel Church of God.

* New Apostolic Mission House, Washington, DC

After the Federal Republic of Germany was founded, the Kronberg Apostolic Mission was dissolved in 1951.

The Jesus and Mary Congregation was the first Congregation of Sisters to come to the north in 1842 at the invitation of Bishop Borghi the Vicar Apostolic of the Agra Mission.

* Tongaat hosts the Tongaat branch of the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa, founded by Rev John G. Lake in 1908.

In 2012, the AMiA became a " Society of Mission and Apostolic Works ".

He was ordained in 1928 by the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa.

The first Vicar Apostolic was Giovanni Timoleon Raimondi, titular Bishop of Acanthus ( consecrated 22 November 1874 ), who died at Mission House, Glenealy, Hong Kong, 27 September 1894.

In 1847 he was appointed Apostolic vicar of the Dutch Mission ( Hollandse Zending ), until 1848.

Crawford's mission gained further influence when Clara Lum, editor of The Apostolic Faith, transferred the paper, under controversial circumstances, to the Portland mission in mid-1908.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

In the works of the Apostolic Fathers, and Ignatius of Antioch in particular, the role of the episkopos, or bishop, became more important or, rather, already was very important and being clearly defined.

A major component of the Christology of the Apostolic Age was that of Paul the Apostle.

Following the Apostolic Age, there was fierce and often politicized debate in the early church on many interrelated issues.

This title is historically known as “ Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa on the Holy Apostolic Throne of Saint Mark the Evangelist ,” that is “ of Alexandria and of all Africa .” The title of “ Patriarch ” was first used around the time of the Third Ecumenical Council of Ephesus, convened in AD 431, and ratified at Chalcedon in AD 451.

* 1854 – In his Apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus, Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogmatic definition of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Virgin Mary was born free of original sin.

Assuming Ignatius ' view was the Apostolic teaching and practice, the line of succession was unbroken and passed through the four ancient Patriarchal sees ( those local churches known to be founded by apostles ), Rome, Jerusalem, Antioch and Alexandria.

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 permanent criteria of church structure for the Orthodox Church today, outside the New Testament writings, are found in the canons ( regulation and decrees ) of the first seven ecumenical councils ; the canons of several local or provincial councils, whose authority was recognized by the whole church ; the Apostolic Canons, dating from the 4th century ); and the " canons of the Fathers " or selected extracts from prominent church leaders having canonical importance.

In the early Middle Ages, the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church was ruled by five patriarchs: the bishops of Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem ; these were collectively referred to as the Pentarchy.

He had taken with him presents for the " King of Japan " since he was intending to introduce himself as the Apostolic Nuncio.

He was also Apostolic King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia as Francis I.

The notion that hell was below the earth is stated clearly in early Christian tradition by the belief, still recited by most Christians in the Apostolic and Athanasian creeds, that Christ " descended into hell " between his death and resurrection.

* 1806-Gibraltar was made a Catholic Apostolic Vicariate ( until then Gibraltar belonged to the See of Cadiz ).

In 2011, he was commemorated with the other Minor prophets in the Calendar of saints of the Armenian Apostolic Church on February 8.

The Apostolic Church was the community led by the apostles, and to some degree, Jesus ' relatives.

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.