subapostolic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Pertaining to the period after the apostolic age (the time of Christ's apostles) and the early Catholic age (when the followers of the apostles were gone) in early Christian church history, at the tail end of the first century and into the early years of the second century AD.

Word forms

subapostolic

Etymology

From sub- + apostolic.

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