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Definition: Apostolical succession
, n. [L. successio: cf. F. succession.
1. The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of
things in order of time or place, or a series of things so
following; sequence; as, a succession of good crops; a
succession of disasters.
2. A series of persons or things according to some
established rule of precedence; as, a succession of kings,
or of bishops; a succession of events in chronology.
He was in the succession to an earldom. --Macaulay.
3. An order or series of descendants; lineage; race; descent.
“A long succession must ensue.”
4. The power or right of succeeding to the station or title
of a father or other predecessor; the right to enter upon
the office, rank, position, etc., held ny another; also,
the entrance into the office, station, or rank of a
predecessor; specifically, the succeeding, or right of
succeeding, to a throne.
You have the voice of the king himself for your
succession in Denmark. --Shak.
The animosity of these factions did not really arise
from the dispute about the succession. --Macaulay.
5. The right to enter upon the possession of the property of
an ancestor, or one near of kin, or one preceding in an
6. The person succeeding to rank or office; a successor or
heir. [R.] --Milton.
. (Theol.) See under Apostolical
, a tax imposed on every succession to
property, according to its value and the relation of the
person who succeeds to the previous owner. [Eng.]
Succession of crops
. (Agric.) See Rotation of crops
, Apostolical \Ap`os*tol"ic*al\
, a. [L.
apostolicus, Gr. ?: cf. F. apostolique.]
1. Pertaining to an apostle, or to the apostles, their times,
or their peculiar spirit; as, an apostolical mission; the
2. According to the doctrines of the apostles; delivered or
taught by the apostles; as, apostolic faith or practice.
3. Of or pertaining to the pope or the papacy; papal.
. See under Brief
, a collection of rules and precepts
relating to the duty of Christians, and particularly to
the ceremonies and discipline of the church in the second
and third centuries.
, the Christian church; -- so called on
account of its apostolic foundation, doctrine, and order.
The churches of Rome, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem
were called apostolic churches.
, directions of a nature similar to
the apostolic canons, and perhaps compiled by the same
authors or author.
, early Christian writers, who were born
in the first century, and thus touched on the age of the
apostles. They were Polycarp, Clement, Ignatius, and
Hermas; to these Barnabas has sometimes been added.
), a title granted by the pope
to the kings of Hungary on account of the extensive
propagation of Christianity by St. Stephen, the founder of
the royal line. It is now a title of the emperor of
Austria in right of the throne of Hungary.
, a see founded and governed by an apostle;
specifically, the Church of Rome; -- so called because, in
the Roman Catholic belief, the pope is the successor of
St. Peter, the prince of the apostles, and the only
apostle who has successors in the apostolic office.
, the regular and uninterrupted
transmission of ministerial authority by a succession of
bishops from the apostles to any subsequent period.