adjective
- Proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles.
- usage: "papal dispensation"
- synonyms: papal, apostolic, pontifical
- Of or relating to or deriving from the Apostles or their teachings.
- synonyms: apostolic
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