Apostolic

(ap-os-tolik,) or APOSTOLICAL. (Eccl. Hist.) The earlier Christian Church was called the A. Church, because at first the apostles conduct edit. So, also, the Papal See is called the A. See, because it is supposed to have been founded by the Apostle St. Peter. - The A. Symbol, or Apostles' Creed, is a confe ion of faith which contains, in three articles, the doctrines of the apostles. Most of its clauses are quoted by the apostolic father Ignatius; and the whole, as it now stands in the Liturgy, is to be found in the works of St. Ambrose, in the 4th cent. [s. 39]