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Apostolically

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ap·os·tol·ic  (p-stlk) ap·os·tol·i·cal (--kl)
adj.
1. Of or relating to an apostle.
2.
a. Of, relating to, or contemporary with the 12 Apostles.
b. Of, relating to, or derived from the teaching or practice of the 12 Apostles.
3.
a. Of or relating to a succession of spiritual authority from the 12 Apostles, regarded by Anglicans, Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, and some others to have been perpetuated by successive ordinations of bishops and to be requisite for valid orders and administration of sacraments.
b. Roman Catholic Church Of or relating to the pope as the successor of Saint Peter; papal.
apos·toli·cal·ly adv.
apos·tol·ici·ty (-st-ls-t) n.
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Paul wants to explain why he is apostolically under obligation to "Greeks and barbarians, to wise and foolish.
The trust of Abraham and the trust of Jesus Christ: Romans 1:17 by Waetjen, Herman C. / Currents in Theology and Mission
Therefore, churches or ecclesial communities that are not currently in communion with apostolically constituted Catholic Christianity are defective.
ROME & RELATIVISM : 'Dominus Iesus' & the CDF by Commonweal
In his memoirs he bites the Byronic hand that penned him, meanwhile stoking the embers of Shelley's pyre into a cultish blaze over which he apostolically presides and lovingly simmers his own fame; in the ultimate groupie coup, he even gets himself buried next to Shelley in Rome.
Lord Byron's Jackal by Downing, Ben / New Criterion
 
 
 
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