Sentence examples for apostolic from inspiring English sources

Certainly no priest is in a position to assess the justice of a civil lord, given his dedication to apostolic ideals foreign to civil dominium.

Soon after, Francis went to the apostolic palace to break the seal on the papal apartments.

Then he was borne out of the church, his white skull-cap bobbing through the crowd, his hands raised in blessing, his feet seeming to hover over, rather than touch, the ground, until he reached the shelter of his car and the safety of the apostolic delegation.

They had caught the medieval longing for apostolic simplicity, lay involvement and mysticism that also fired St Francis; but the male clergy, unable to control them, attacked them as heretics and burned some alive.

Had he been, he would have hung every rag of canvas he owned on her, right to the stuns'ls, and would have had the hands wetting it all down in the hope of catching even the vaguest of breezes.Mark WilsonManchesterOpus operativeSIR – I am a Spanish priest who spent 13 years working in different apostolic initiatives of Opus Dei ("A saint for Opus Dei", October 12th).

Compare apostolic delegate.

They were originally called apostolic men (Apostolici).

The tiara, the papal diadem or crown apostolic, emerged in the early medieval period; and the mitre (the liturgical headdress of bishops and abbots), the most conspicuous of the episcopal insignia, began as a mark of favour accorded to certain bishops by the supreme pontiff at a somewhat later date.

The claim of the Roman Catholic Church to be the one legitimate continuation of the community established by Jesus Christ is based on apostolic succession.

The patristic period is generally taken to extend from the immediately post-Apostolic authors to either Gregory the Great (d. 604) or Isidore of Seville (d. 636) in the Latin West, and to John of Damascus (d. 749) in the Greek East.

Valla and Erasmus suspected the authenticity of the Hermetic texts and the writings attributed to the pseudo-Apostolic sixth-century Christian author Dionysius the Areopagite, but both of them discreetly refrained from open exposure of the occult sages.