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Apostolic Constitutions

Also known as Constitutiones Apostolorum

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Late 4th-century Syrian compilation reworking the Didascalia and Didache, with canons and liturgies.

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The Apostolic Constitutions or Constitutions of the Holy Apostles is a Christian collection divided into eight books which is classified among the ancient church orders, a genre of early Christian literature, that offered authoritative pseudo-apostolic prescriptions on moral conduct, liturgy and Church organization.

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Apostolic Constitutions (c. 400) · New Advent FathersPublic-domain translation; site edition copyright Kevin Knight. Link, do not mirror.
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