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APOSTLES
Submitted to: Maam Cherrie Mae Ngoap

Submitted by:
Princess M. Lastima and Marianne Divine M. Padua

SIMON PETER
Saint Peter or Simon Peter was an early Christian leader, who is featured prominently in theNew Testament Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles. The son of John or of Jonah and from the village of Bethsaida in the province of Galilee, his brother Andrew was also an apostle. Simon Peter is venerated in multiple churches and is regarded as the first Pope by the Roman Catholic Church. After working to establish the church of Antioch for seven years presiding as the city's bishop and preaching to scattered communities of believers (Jews, Hebrew Christians and thegentiles), in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia Minor and Bithynia, Peter went to Rome. In the second year of Claudius, it is claimed, he overthrew Simon Magus and held the Sacerdotal Chair for 25 years. He is said to have been put to death at the hand of Nero. He wrote two Catholic epistles. The Gospel of Mark is also ascribed to him (as Mark was his disciple and interpreter). On the other hand, several books bearing his namethe Acts of Peter, Gospel of Peter, Preaching of Peter, Revelation of Peter, and Judgement of Peterare rejected by Christians asApocryphal.

ANDREW
Saint Andrew (Greek: , Andreas; early 1st centurymid to late 1st century AD), called in the Orthodox tradition Prtokltos, or the First-called, is a Christian Apostle and the brother ofSaint Peter. The name "Andrew" (Greek: manly, brave, from , Andreia, "manhood, valour"), like other Greek names, appears to have been common among the Jews from the 3rd or 2nd century BC. No Hebrew or Aramaic name is recorded for him. He is considered the founder and first bishop of the Church of Byzantium and is consequently the patron saint of theEcumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.

JAMES THE GREAT

James, son of Zebedee (Aramaic Yaqov, Greek , died 44 AD) was one of theTwelve Apostles of Jesus. He was a son of Zebedee and Salome, and brother of John the Apostle. He is also called James the Greater to distinguish him from James, son of Alphaeus, who is also known as James the Lesser.

JOHN THE BELOVED

John the Apostle, (Aramaic Yoanna, (Ancient Greek: ) (c. 6 - c. 100) was one of theTwelve Apostles of Jesus. He was the son of Zebedee and Salome, and brother of James, another of the Twelve Apostles. Christian tradition holds he was the last surviving of the Twelve Apostles and that he died of natural causes the only apostle to die naturally - "in great old age near Ephesus".

PHILLIP
Philip the Apostle (Greek: , Philippos) was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. Later Christian

traditions describe Philip as the apostle who preached in Greece, Syria, andPhrygia. In the Roman Catholic Church, the feast day of Philip, along with that of James the Just, was traditionally observed on 1 May, the anniversary of the dedication of the church dedicated to them in Rome (now called the Church of the Twelve Apostles). The Eastern Orthodox Churchcelebrates Philip's feast day on 14 November. One of the Gnostic texts found in the Nag Hammadi library in 1945 has been given the modern title "Gospel of Philip", though this text makes no claim to have been written by Philip. It gets the name simply because Philip is the only apostle ever mentioned in the text (73:8)

THOMAS
Thomas the Apostle, also called Doubting Thomas or Didymus (meaning "Twin") was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. He is best known for questioning Jesus' resurrection when first told of it, then proclaiming "My Lord and my God" on seeing Jesus in John 20:28. He was perhaps the only Apostle who went outside the Roman Empire to preach the Gospel. He is also believed to have crossed the largest area, which includes the Parthian Empire andIndia.[5]

MATTHEW
Matthew the Evangelist (,/ "Gift of Yahweh", Standard Hebrew and Tiberian

Hebrew:Mattay or Mattithyahu; Septuagint Gr eek: , Matthaios) was, according to the Bible, one of the twelve Apostles of Jesus and one of the four Evangelists.

JAMES THE SON OF ALPHAEUS

Saint James, son of Alphaeus was one of the Twelve Apostles ofJesus Christ. He is often identified with James the Less and commonly known by that name in church tradition.[2] James, the son of Alphaeus, is rarely mentioned in the New Testament, but he is sometimes identified with James the Just, an important leader in the New Testament church. He is clearly distinguished from James, son of Zebedee, another one of the Twelve Apostles.

SIMON THE ZEALOT

The apostle called Simon Zelotes, Simon the Zealot, in Luke 6:15 and Acts 1:13; and Simon Kananaios or Simon Cananeus ("Simon" signifying

" hearkening; listening", Standard Hebrew imon, Tiberian Hebrew imn), was one of the most obscure among the apostles ofJesus. Little is recorded of him aside from his name. A few pseudepigraphical writings were connected to him, and Jerome does not include him in De viris illustribus.

JUDAS THADDEUS
Jude was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. He is generally identified with Thaddeus, and is also variously called Jude of James, Jude Thaddaeus, Judas Thaddaeus or Lebbaeus. He is sometimes identified with Jude, "brother of Jesus", but is clearly distinguished from Judas Iscariot, another disciple, the betrayer of Jesus. The Armenian Apostolic Church honors Thaddeus along with Saint Bartholomew as its patron saints. In the Roman Catholic Church he is the patron saint of desperate cases and lost causes.

JUDAS ISCARIOT
Judas Iscariot (Hebrew: ,Yehuda, Yhh -qrayy) was, according to theNew Testament, one of the twelve disciples of Jesus. He is best known for his betrayal of Jesus to

the hands of the chief priests for 30 pieces of silver.[1]

BARTHOLOMEW
Bartholomew was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus, and is usually identified as Nathaniel(alternate spelling: Nathanael) [1] (mentioned in the first chapter of John's Gospel). He was introduced to Christ through St. Philip, another of the twelve apostles as per (John 1:43-51), where the name Nathaniel first appears. He is also mentioned as Nathaniel of Cana in Galilee in (John 21:2). The name Nathaniel is the one used for him in St. Johns Gospel. The relationship between St. Philip and Nathaniel is noted as per John 1:4351. Bartholomew (Greek:, transliterated "Bartholomaios") comes from the Aramaic bar-Tlmay (,)- meaning son of Tolmay (Ptolemy) or son of the furrows (perhaps a ploughman).