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Apostleship vs Apostolicity - What's the difference?

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Apostleship is a related term of apostolicity.


As nouns the difference between apostleship and apostolicity

is that apostleship is the position, post, or duty of being an apostle while apostolicity is the quality of being apostolic, notably of preserving authenticity within the mission and tradition of the christian church as founded by jesus christ and his twelve original apostles, through their representatives and successors in the papacy and episcopate.

apostleship

English

Noun

  • The position, post, or duty of being an apostle

    • See also

    * discipleship

    apostolicity

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The quality of being apostolic, notably of preserving authenticity within the mission and tradition of the Christian church as founded by Jesus Christ and his twelve original Apostles, through their representatives and successors in the papacy and episcopate.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 427:
    • his Church did its best to trump Rome in apostolicity by declaring that it had been founded by the first-recruited among Christ's Apostles, Andrew.

    Related terms

    * apostleship * apostolate

    References

    * Catholic Encyclopaedia