Apostolic
# 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
