Revision as of 2018 November
by MJ. Smith
Ancient Church Orders
Type: Writing
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Didascalia Apostolorum circa 230 AD
Syriac title: The Catholic Teaching of the Twelve Apostles and holy Discipes of our Redeemer
Latin
- Eine lateinische Palimpsestübersetzung der Didascalia apostolorum, 1896 edited by Edmund Hauler
Syriac
- Didascalia apostolorum syriace (1854) edited by Paul de Lagarde
Didache aka The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles – first century
Greek
in Codex Hierosolymitanus
Latin
Jewish synagogue prayers
Canons of the Apostles
Manuscripts
(information not found)
Greek
(information not found)
Latin
(information not found)
Syriac
(information not found)
Coptic
(information not found)
English
Liturgia (Jacobite Anaphora)
Canons of Hippolytus
Testamentum Domini (Testament of our Lord)
an element of the Clementine Octateuch
I. Clementine Octateuch Church Order for ancient Oriental Orthodoxy and Church of the East
Syriac, Bohairic Coptic, Arabic
- Component: Testamentum Domini
- Component: Apostolic Church-Ordinance
- Component: Apostolic Tradition (Arabic only)
- Component: 8th book of Apostolic Constitutions
II. Alexandine Sinodos Church Order for ancient Coptic and Ethiopian Christianity
- Component: Apostolic Church-Ordinance
- Component: Apostolic Tradition
- Component: 8th book of Apostolic Constitutions
III. Verona Palimpest a.k.a Fragmentus Veronese
- Component: Didascalia Apostolorum
- Component: Apostolic Church-Ordinance
- Component: Egyptian Church Order
IV. Apostolic Constitutions (Constitutiones apostolicae)
a.k.a. Ordinances of the Holy Apostles through Clement; circa 380 AD, Syria
Sources
- Component books 1-6: Didascalia Apostolorum
- Component book 7: Didache
- Component book 8: from Apostolic Tradition
- Component final chapter book 8: Canons of the Apostles