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[Slava Isusu Khrestu

I am sorry to put this question here but I was not sure where it should be. and I need an answer.

Recently in a discussion, a friend of mine of greater knowledge than me, mentioned that St Paul is on of the 12 Apostles. From my searching I find that there were 12.

I was taught were:

1. Peter:
2. Andrew:
3. James the Son of Zebedee:
4. John
5 Philip:
6. Bartholomew:
7. Thomas:
8. Matthew
9. James the Son of Aphaeos:
10. Thaddeus (or Jude the brother of James):
11. Simon the Zealot:
12. Matthias: ( selected to replace Judas)

My friend with theological background referred to St Paul as an Apostle. I have read that St Paul is often called " the Apostle of the Gentiles but does that make him one of the original 12 ? Then if he is, there would be 13 Apostles? ( No way!!)

Help please

In truth, I am the uneducated and ignorant
and unworthy

Kolya

Kolya,
Paul was not one of the 12 but was a later addition to them:



"Apostle" can be used loosely for others sent to preach the gospel, but it applies in a special way to the Twelve. Paul, although not one of the Twelve, was an apostle in the same sense as they, for he also had seen the risen Jesus and been sent to bear witness to him (see Acts 26.16-18; Rom 1.1, 5; 11.13; 1 Cor 9.1-2; 2 Cor 11; Gal 1.15-16; 2.8).
The Way of the Lord Jesus Volume I
Germain Grisez

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Kim, M



"....abstinence and chastity, dispose man very much to the perfection of intellectual operation.” St Thomas Aquinas

Slava Isusu Khrestu

Hello Germain

Thank you! All is clearer now.

From Canada where some had snow yesterday

Z Bohom/With God

Unworthy
Kolya