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The word apostle (from Greek: apostolos, 'sent') came to be used for any of the disciples of Jesus and for St. Paul. The notion was that Jesus himself sent the apostles to evangelise. During the second century, the Greek word episkopus ('overseer') began to be used for a senior elder of the Church, at a time when structure was just becoming necessary. This was translated into Latin as ebiscobus, then Old Saxon as biskop and eventually becoming 'bishop'.

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