6-461: The Apostolic Church-Ordinance (or Apostolic Church-Order , Apostolic Church-Directory or Constitutio Ecclesiastica Apostolorum ) is an anonymous Oriental Orthodox Christian treatise which belongs to the genre of the Church Orders . The work can be dated at the end of 3rd century CE. The provenance is usually regarded as Egypt , or perhaps Syria . This text served as a law-code for
12-650: The Coptic , Ethiopian Orthodox and other Oriental Orthodox churches. It superseded in authority and esteem the Didache , under which name it sometimes went. The full and original text, in Greek , was found in a 12th-century manuscript discovered in 1843 at Vienna and published in the same year by Johann Wilhelm Bickell, which named it Apostolische Kirchenordnung . Only other four fragmentary Greek manuscripts are extant. A complete Syriac ancient translation, with English translation,
18-451: The Apostles are so listed: John , Matthew , Peter , Andrew , Philip , Simon, James , Nathanael , Thomas , Cephas , Bartholomew and Judas . The presence of both Peter and Cephas, and the first place given to John, is found also in the more ancient Epistula Apostolorum . The content can be so summarized: [REDACTED] This article incorporates text from a publication now in
24-668: The Churches ", while the Syriac version has " Third book of Clement, Teaching of the twelve Apostles ". As usual in genre of the Church Orders, this texts purports to be the work of the Twelve Apostles , whose instructions, whether given by them as individuals or as a body. In antiquity this text was sometime mistakenly supposed to be gathered and handed down by the Clement of Rome . The names of
30-676: The second place, and the Syriac version of it has it in the third place. Thus many early translations of the Apostolic Church-Ordinance survive in Latin , Ge'ez , Bohairic Coptic , Sahidic Coptic , Arabic and Syriac . The titles found on the manuscripts can be different, so the Bohairic Alexandrine Sinodos version is entitled " Canons of our Fathers the Holy Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, which they appointed in
36-715: Was published in 1901 by John Peter Arendzen. The Ge'ez version was first published in 1691 by Hiob Ludolf . The Apostolic Church-Ordinance usually is found also in ancient collections of Church Orders . It is the second book in the Verona Palimpsest , it is the first book in the Alexandrine Sinodos and in the Bohairic version of the Clementine Octateuch , while the Arabic version of the Clementine Octateuch has it in
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