Statutes of the Apostles (Apostolic Church Order)
An early church order, ascribed to the twelve apostles, on the offices of bishop, presbyter, deacon, reader and widow, on baptism, fasting, prayer and the Lord’s Supper. It survives in Greek fragments and in Ethiopic, Arabic and Sahidic Coptic translations.
Writings
English translations (older public-domain ones, and a few modern ones shared under open licences), divided into chapters and short sections, with a download for each. A modern English version and the original-language text are planned for the works that matter most.
- The Statutes of the Apostles (Canones Ecclesiastici): the Ethiopic, Arabic and Sahidic versions in English Older EnglishOCR text 5.0 h read
Most translations are the older ones in the public domain (mostly the nineteenth-century Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers); a few are modern translations shared under an open licence, with the translators credited on the work’s page. Square brackets and any Greek or Latin words are as the source prints them.