apostolic
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Callao is backing the project as a tribute to the pope's ties with the city, where he served as the apostolic administrator of the diocese from 2020 to 2021.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
Saint Paul wrote the apostolic dictate that a new believer ought not be a leader in spiritual matters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
Francis praised her on Sunday as a “model of apostolic fervor and audacity for us,” and he urged his listeners to overcome prejudice and fear and be close to the poor.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2024
What Wagner saw in these examples and others, Gagné said, “was a new mode of church governance which focused on apostolic leadership and networks.”
From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2024
The opposition to Paul's apostolic authority, treated almost contemptuously in ix. 1-14, grew to alarming proportions.
From The Making of the New Testament by Benjamin Wisner Bacon
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"The Declaration of Sentiments" (1848)
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