Office Christianity
apostle
apostolus la Ἀπόστολος grc ܬܪܥܣܪ ܫܠܝܚܐ arc
Primary disciples of Jesus in the New Testament
A seat,
and those
who held it.
Holders in order
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Succession in office
Who held it, in order
A sequence of office-holders, not a family genealogy.
- 35 holders
- 1 overlap
- 33 undated
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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from 30 CE John the Apostle apostle of Jesus; son of Zebedee and Salome, brother of James; traditionally identified with John the Evangelist, John of Patmos, and the Beloved Disciple -
Overlap held at the same time as John the Apostle
from 44 CE Paul the Apostle Early Christian apostle and missionary (c. AD 5 – c. 64/65)
No dates recorded 33
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Dates unrecorded Hyacinth of Poland Polish Dominican priest -
Dates unrecorded St. James the Elder one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus -
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Dates unrecorded Thomas the Apostle one of the Twelve Apostles in the New Testament -
Dates unrecorded Francis Xavier Spanish Catholic saint and missionary (1506–1552) -
Dates unrecorded Jude the Apostle one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus; traditionally identified with Jude the brother of Jesus -
Dates unrecorded Brendan the Navigator Irish monastic saint -
Dates unrecorded Saint Naum Bulgarian writer & missionary -
Dates unrecorded Vincent Pallotti Italian saint and missionary (1795–1850) -
Dates unrecorded Saint Peter apostle of Jesus Christ -
Dates unrecorded Andrew the Apostle religious figure of the Christian faith -
Dates unrecorded Matthew the Apostle Christian evangelist and apostle (10-74)
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Dates unrecorded Philip the Apostle Christian saint and apostle -
Dates unrecorded Simon the Zealot apostle of Jesus -
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Dates unrecorded James, son of Alphaeus one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ -
Dates unrecorded Judas Iscariot notable as betrayer of Jesus, one of Jesus's original twelve disciples -
Dates unrecorded Matthias the Apostle religious figure of the Christian faith -
Dates unrecorded Salome biblical figure, mother of John and Jacob -
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Dates unrecorded Tychicus Companion of the Apostle Paul -
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Dates unrecorded Achaicus of Corinth one of the seventy disciples -
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Dates unrecorded Crispus of Chalcedon male human biblical figure in 1 Corinthians 1:14 and Acts 18:8 - Dates unrecorded Erastus of Corinth one of the Seventy Disciples
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Dates unrecorded Parmenas 1st century deacon -
Dates unrecorded Asyncritus of Hyrcania human biblical figure -
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Dates unrecorded Peter Faber Jesuit priest and evangelist -
Dates unrecorded Finnian of Moville Irish missionary -
Dates unrecorded James the Less Christian saint -
Dates unrecorded John Mark Biblical saint -
Dates unrecorded Luke the Evangelist one of the four evangelists -
Dates unrecorded Saint Eustace Christian martyr -
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Dates unrecorded Silas ancient Roman saint and bishop -
Dates unrecorded Bartolo Longo beatified Italian Catholic (1841-1926)
Chronology is not a full explanation
Why one holder followed another takes evidence beyond the order of their dates.
Connections
How apostle connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Identification 1
What this means
One figure treated as another in some context. Not literal identity in all contexts, and usually a claim by a third party.
Does not imply literal identity in all contexts · that either tradition made the identification
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Veneration 1
What this means
A figure is venerated somewhere or by someone. Not a claim about how many people did, or when they stopped.
Does not imply recognition by any other church or tradition · a judgement about the historicity of the life · the same status in every branch of the church that confers it
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
1 statement on this record
- 1 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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