The Apostle’s Creed

Question 1

What is known as an early version of the Apostle’s Creed?

Answer 1

The Old Roman Creed

Question 2

Where was the earliest form of the Old Roman Creed found?

Answer 2

In a letter to Marcellus of Ancyra who wrote in Greek to Julius, the bishop of Rome, around AD 341.

Question 3

Where was the earliest known occurrence of the Apostle’s Creed found, as we have it today?

Answer 3

In the Latin tract De singulis libris canonicis scarapsus by the monk Priminius from the early 8th century.

Question 4

When did “practically identical” creeds to the Apostle’s Creed begin to show up?

Answer 4

Around the 5th century in South Gaul

Question 5

Recite the Apostle’s Creed

Answer 5

I believe in God, the Father Almighty,
Maker of heaven and earth;

And in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord;
Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost,
Born of the Virgin Mary,
Suffered under Pontus Pilate,
Was crucified, dead, and buried.
He descended into hell.
The third day he rose again from the dead.
He ascended into heaven,
And sitteth on the right hand of God the Father almighty.
From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Ghost,
The holy Catholic Church,
The communion of saints,
The forgiveness of sins,
The resurrection of the body,
And the life everlasting. Amen.