title: Apostolic
text: # 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
  