Apostle

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An apostle is a messenger and ambassador.

Apostle and The Apostles can mean:

• The term used in the New Testament that means "sent one" or "one on a mission".
  • Another definition is a follower of Jesus before his death, and an eye-witness of him afterwards [1].
• A very influential leader of a movement in history "he was an Apostle of the civil rights movement"
• The Twelve Apostles, the 12 followers of Jesus given "the Great Commission".
• The Seventy Apostles, the 70 sent forth in Luke 10. They are referred to as Apostles by the Orthodox Church and as Disciples in the Western tradition.
• Jesus is referred to as an apostle in Hebrews 3:1.
• Apostle (Mormonism), a position within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
• The Apostle, a 1997 film directed by and starring Robert Duvall.
• El Apóstol, the world's oldest animated feature film, 1917, Argentina.
• Cambridge Apostles, a secret society at the University of Cambridge.
• The Apostles (band), a punk rock group from the 1980s.
• The Apostles (Elgar), a 1903 choral work by Edward Elgar.
• Apostle (production company), a television production company founded in 1994 by Jim Serpico and Denis Leary.
• Apostle Plant, the genus Neomarica of plants believed to only flower after growing 12 leaves.
• The Twelve Apostles (Irish counter-intelligence organisation), an Irish Republican Army unit created by Michael Collins.
• Muḥammad, as "رسول الله" "Rasūlullāh" (Muḥammad's primary title and a part of the Shahādah) can be translated as "The Apostle of God."
• 12 Apostles (record label), a record label.
• The Apostles, an installment of the Christian direct-to-video animated film series, Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible, with narration by Charlton Heston. [2]