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Philip the Apostle

Apostle of Jesus

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 17, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Philip the Apostle was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Later Christian traditions describe Philip as the apostle who preached in Carthage, Greece, Syria, and Asia-Minor.

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“Philip the Apostle” enters the record as apostle of Jesus. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Philip, Apostle and Jesus can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Philip the Apostle” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.