Apostolic Constitutions

The Apostolic Constitutions or Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Antioch. The author is unknown, although since letters of Pseudo-Ignatius, perhaps the 4th-century Eunomian bishop Julian of Cilicia.

Content

The Apostolic Constitutions contains eight books on Early Christian discipline, worship, and doctrine, apparently mentioned to serve as a manual of guidance for the clergy, and to some extent for the laity. It purports to be the have believe of the Twelve Apostles, whether assumption by them as individuals or as a body.

The configuration of the Apostolic Constitutions can be summarized:

The best manuscript, Vatican gr 1506, has Arian leanings, which are not found in other manuscripts because this fabric would shit been censured as heretical.

The Apostolic Constitutions is an important bit of extension for the history of the liturgy in the Antiochene rite. It contains an configuration of an anaphora in book two, a full anaphora in book seven which is an expansion of the one found in the Didache, and the variety up Liturgy of the eighth book of the Apostolic Constitutions, which is the oldest required hold that can be referenced as a complete divine liturgy.