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Answer for the clue "The position of apostle ", 11 letters:
apostleship

Word definitions for apostleship in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the position of apostle

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Apostleship \A*pos"tle*ship\, n. The office or dignity of an apostle.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The position, post, or duty of being an apostle

Usage examples of apostleship.

Desiring with the most heartfelt anxiety, even as Our Apostleship requires, that the Catholic Faith should be especially in this Our day increase and flourish everywhere, .

Our Apostleship requires, that the Catholic faith should especially in this Our day increase and flourish everywhere, and that all heretical depravity should be driven far from the frontiers and bournes of the Faithful, We very gladly proclaim and even restate those particular means and methods whereby Our pious desire may obtain its wished effect, since when all errors are uprooted by Our diligent avocation as by the hoe of a provident husbandman, a zeal for, and the regular observance of, Our holy Faith will be all the more strongly impressed upon the hearts of the faithful.

The greater question is what kind of apostleship of Christianity did the Supreme Pontiff and his four predecessors see themselves as filling?

He branded Simon Peter for his perfidy, and drove him out forever from the apostleship he had disgraced, denouncing him as a son of hell and a predestined citizen of the outer darkness?

For the first time, he must shoulder the chief apostleship entirely alone, thousands depending on him in this most difficult period.

He is favored by unionist acclaim, and by dint of his apostleship you are under his bidding.