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Apostolic constitutions

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directions of a nature similar to the apostolic canons, and perhaps compiled by the same authors or author.
See under Apostolic.

See also: Apostolic Constitution



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We have millions of words from the man: the 14 major encyclicals, 15 apostolic exhortations, 11 apostolic constitutions, and 45 apostolic letters; the popular books like Crossing the Threshold of Hope, scribbled on yellow pads during long plane flights; the scholarly works he wrote as a young theologian; the thousands of prayers and exhortations he delivered during the innumerable audiences he tirelessly gave as pope.
Citing ancient texts of ordination rituals, including the Apostolic Constitutions, he says, "A study of the documents shows that in the church in the East, centuries before it split with the West, both men and women were admitted to the diaconate through a precisely equivalent sacramental ordination.
It was based largely on German scholarship but to a lesser degree French and English, and identified the Apostolic Constitutions, 8.
 
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