apostolic

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A diocese statement said the case was put last week before an apostolic tribunal in Spain.

From Barron's • Nov. 11, 2025

It’s a movement that has, as its core idea, apostolic governance.

From Slate • Jan. 6, 2024

Father Doug Owens, delegate to the apostolic administrator in the Diocese of Knoxville, shared news of the verdict in the criminal case “with great relief.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 20, 2023

Such investigations, known as apostolic visitations, are rare, formal examinations of leadership that can be prompted by a wide range of possible offenses, including theological disagreements and financial mismanagement.

From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2023

But they are never employed before 175-180 in a way to even remotely suggest that they were then regarded as written by John, or even as apostolic in any sense.

From The Making of the New Testament by Bacon, Benjamin Wisner