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Meanings of apostolic in English
Proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles.
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Examples for "papal"
Examples for "papal"
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But the papers made no mention of the papal visit to Iraq.
2
It included service as papal nuncio to Rwanda, Ethiopia and New Zealand.
3
The storm of papal persecution first burst upon the Waldenses in France.
4
U.S. immigration officials denied at the time there was any papal intervention.
5
At the back of the Italian papal party was the great Hildebrand.
1
M. Edgeworth put on his pontifical robes, and began to celebrate mass.
2
Expenditure, always charming, becomes under these circumstances a sacred and pontifical act.
3
I noted it, I think, in the case of the pontifical feminine dress.
4
They passed between the pontifical guards, who gave the priest the military salute.
5
A pontifical and warlike nature, a singular thing in a youth.
1
That apostolical man sent him to his abbey of Solignac, in Limousin.
2
What evidence, then, have we for the fact of the apostolical succession?
3
The apostles of Christ were the first subject of apostolical power.
4
This was the apostolical way of teaching the churches at the first plantation thereof.
5
Every such case makes a break in the apostolical succession.
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My spiritual leader has said fighting in Syria is a legitimate duty.
2
It is rejected by us, said Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.
3
His role was closer to that of a spiritual leader or elder.
4
Your mother is now the spiritual leader of the Second, Willamar said.
5
The spiritual leader went into exile in 1959 after a failed uprising.
Usage of apostolic in English
1
Bull, notwithstanding all previous apostolic constitutions and rulings, whether general or particular.
2
Hence the apostolic office in this special sense passed away with them.
3
The result of the labours of these apostolic men was soon evident.
4
Another female acts a conspicuous part in connexion with this apostolic visit.
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St. Paul counseled virginity and most of the apostolic fathers practiced it.
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Nor have I taken the Pope of Rome under my apostolic protection.
7
To them, as to you, we wish to extend our apostolic benediction.
8
Thus John was, in a way, enjoying the distinction of apostolic succession.
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The first churches could not be deceived with forgeries for apostolic writings.
10
With you also goes the apostolic succession, and, perhaps-the Chair of Peter.
11
They are not apostolic, because established hundreds of years after the Apostles.
12
Thus we shall confess to each other, according to the apostolic custom.
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This morning she wanted to know what I thought of apostolic succession.
14
These four monks were all remarkable for their virtue and apostolic zeal.
15
I felt myself invested, all of a sudden, with the apostolic state.
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Here then may be a faint trace of a true apostolic history.
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