1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
APOSTOLICAL CONSTITUTIONS (^larayai or Atara£ut rdv o.yiuv aroaroXav did. KXi7/i««'Tos roD 'PuuaLtav ifiaubvov rt ical ToXirou. Ka0oXun) Si<5aa/caXia), a collection of ecclesiastical regulations in eight books, the last of which concludes with the eighty-five Canons of the Holy Apostles. By their title the Constitutions profess to have been drawn up by the apostles, and to have been transmitted to the Church by Clement of Rome; sometimes the alleged authors are represented as speaking jointly, sometimes singly. Fro…
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- Vol. 2, pp. 199-201