Apostolos

American  

[ah-paws-taw-laws, uh-pos-tl-os] / ɑˈpɔs tɔ lɔs, əˈpɒs tlˌɒs /

noun

Greek Orthodox Church.

1. a book containing parts of the Epistles and parts of the Acts of the Apostles.

2. a reading from this book.

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Etymology

Origin of Apostolos

< Late Greek, Greek: apostle

Example Sentences

But a 68th-minute penalty from substitute Apostolos Stamatelopoulos restored Motherwell's two-goal advantage.

From Barron's • Nov. 22, 2025

A lawyer for Empire Navigation, Apostolos Tourkantonis, pleaded guilty in April to a single charge of violating the sanctions on Iran.

From Washington Times • Sep. 7, 2023

With coaching now permitted, Tsitsipas’s father, Apostolos, who is also his son’s coach, was a voluble courtside presence.

From Washington Post • Jan. 29, 2023

"We go where we're wanted. We're not like apples. We can't just find a new market, there need to be certain conditions," said Apostolos Tsoukas, the federation's president.

From Reuters • Jul. 18, 2022

In Euchologies, or Books of Offices, wherein both the Apostolos and the Gospels are found, the former always precede in each Office, just as the Epistle precedes the Gospel in the Service-books of Western Christendom.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose