Apostolic Constitutions

By their nature, apostolic constitutions are addressed to the public.

Other sources include apostolic constitutions, motibus propriis, and particular law.

Funk thought the apostolic constitutions were written as late as the beginning of the fifth century.

Apostolic constitutions are issued as papal bulls because of their solemn, public form.

But one only has to study the Church's own Apostolic Constitutions to discover that this is simply not true.

The structure of the Apostolic Constitutions can be summarized:

The oldest ordination rite for deaconesses is found in the 5th-century Apostolic Constitutions.

Apostolic Constitutions (church regulations supposedly asserted by the apostles)

The Apostolic Constitutions also accuses him of lawlessness.

The Gospel of Matthew and the Apostolic Constitutions may have been written there.

And while he professed his fidelity to the civil laws, he insinuated that Our apostolic constitutions were opposed to them.

Apostolic constitutions are the highest form of papal teaching, above encyclicals, below dogmatization ex cathedra.

The seventh and eighth books of the Apostolic Constitutions include so much additional material that they can be considered as separated stand-alone texts.

The Apostolic constitutions, which go back to about the year 400, attribute the precept of using holy water to the Apostle Matthew.

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Clement of Rome in Apostolic Constitutions (1st century):

The Apostolic Constitutions were rejected as canonical by the Decretum Gelasianum.

Various Christian texts, such as the Didache and the Apostolic Constitutions, were attributed to the apostles.

Joyous Saturday and the week preceding it are counted separately from the forty-day fast in accordance with the Apostolic Constitutions giving an extra eight days.

Also at this time the Apostolic Constitutions was translated in Geʻez, which provided another set of instructions and laws for the Ethiopian Church.

In terms of formality, papal bulls and Apostolic Constitutions are above encyclicals, followed by Apostolic Letters.

The later Apostolic Constitutions identify "Zacchaeus the Publican" as the first bishop of Caesarea (7.46).

The Apostolic Constitutions identify Aquila, along with Nicetas, as the first bishops of Asia Minor (7.46).

The Apostolic Constitutions consist of eight books purporting to have been written by St. Clement of Rome (died c. 104).

Drawn from the sacred canons, apostolic constitutions, and decrees of the sacred congregations, they are frequently mentioned by eminent authorities and are rather commonly known.