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Apostolate vs Apostolicity - What's the difference?

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Apostolicity is a related term of apostolate.



As nouns the difference between apostolate and apostolicity

is that apostolate is the office, or responsibilities of 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.

apostolate

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The office, or responsibilities of an apostle.
  • A group of people that exists for the spreading of religious doctrine.

    • 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