Many churches which were established as primary in authority, were established by the early apostles.

Ōtsuki believed that the early apostles did not merely preach Christ, but through the laying on of hands passed the living Christ to others.

In coming centuries, Milton would be claimed as an early apostle of liberalism.

William Christie (1748-1823) was a Scottish Unitarian writer, one of the earliest apostles of Unitarianism in Scotland and America.

This eventually led him to a restoration of Christian doctrine that, he said, was lost after the early Christian apostles were killed.

He was the grandson of Willard Richards, an early apostle of the church and colleague of Joseph Smith.

John Calvin, a prolific and influential Reformation scholar, took a straightforward view of idolatry, patterned after the simplicity of the faith of the early apostles:

The word "apostle" has two meanings, the broader meaning of a messenger and the narrow meaning of an early Christian apostle directly linked to Jesus.

It is believed by mainstream Christianity that direct revelation had ceased with the death of the early apostles in the first century.

The town was named after David W. Patten, an early Mormon apostle that was killed in 1838 in Missouri.