Apostolic

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, 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, 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, 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, the head of a mission of the Roman Catholic Church
• The Apostolic See, sometimes used to refer to the See of Rome; see Apostolic see § Specific reference to Rome
• Apostolic vicariate, a territorial jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Church
• Chancery of Apostolic Briefs, 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, 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, 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, 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

See also

• Apostle (disambiguation)
• Apostolic Church (disambiguation)
• Catholic Apostolic Church (disambiguation)
• Apostol (disambiguation)