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{{Orthodoxchristianity}}
The '''One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church''' is the [[Orthodox Church|Orthodox]] [[Ecclesiology|Church]] of [[Jesus Christ]], against which he promised the gates of [[hell]] would not prevail. Specifically, ''one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church'' is the [[Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed|creedal]] form of belief in the Church. What is implied in that belief are commonly called the marks of the Church: unity, sanctity, catholicity, and apostolicity.
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This sending was first effected with the apostles, thus apostolicity is not only the divine mission; it is also unity of the Church with the apostles who were sent out by [[Jesus Christ]]. Thus, there is an [[apostolic succession]] by which the pastors of the Church are able to trace their orders back to the infant Church founded by Jesus Christ in the first century.
==External links==
*[[w:Four Marks of the Church|Four Marks of the Church]] at Wikipedia.
== Sources ==