English Explanatory Dictionary

equal-to-apostles

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. A special title given to some saints in Eastern Orthodoxy and in Byzantine Catholicism, recognizing their outstanding service in the spreading and assertion of Christianity, comparable to that of the original apostles.

Word forms

equal-to-apostles
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