apostolic

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

Its first and best example speaks in the name of Peter as representative of "apostolic" Christianity at Rome.

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