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Apostolic constitutions

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Uniform title headingApostolic constitutions
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Variant(s)Constitutiones Apostolorum
Diatagai tōn hagiōn apostolōn
Beginning date0380~
Special noteA (late 4th-cent.?) compilation in 8 books, in Greek.
Found inFiensy, David A. Prayers alleged to be Jewish : an examination of the Constitutiones Apostolorum, 1985: CIP title page (Constitutiones Apostolorum)
Oxford dictionary of the Christian church, 1957 (Apostolic constitutions, The)
Altaner, Berthold. Patrology, 1960: page 57 (Apostolic constitutions, Diatagai tōn hagiōn apostolōn)
New Catholic Encyclopedia. Second edition, 2003: volume 1, page 581 (Apostolic constitutions; a church order written in Syria about 380. The full title, Ordinances of the Holy Apostles through Clement, suggests that these canons had been drawn up by the Apostles and transmitted to the Church by Pope Clement I. In reality they are the work of an Arian, who seems to be identical with the fourth-century interpolator of the Epistles of St. Ignatius; written in 8 books; book 7, 33-38, contains a very interesting collection of Jewish prayers)