Eventually, the Church accepts Gentile believers and promotes the gospel throughout the whole known world (13-28). The apostles, the first bishops of the Church, appoint deacons to assist them (6).

He is called the Apostle of the Gentiles; that is, of all those who were not of the Jewish religion or members of the Church of the Old Law. Q. 441. How did St. Paul become an Apostle? A.

“Take heed, therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock,” the Apostle Paul urges church presbyters ... to bear My name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel” (Acts 9: 11, 15, ...