The Apostolic Constitutions (Constitutiones apostolorum) is one of a number of early Christian texts known collectively to modern scholars as ancient church orders (Bradshaw, 2015), in this case containing extensively reworked and expanded versions of three others – the Didascalia apostolorum (forming Books 1–6 of the work), the Didache (in Book 7), and the Apostolic Tradition (in Book 8) – together with some other material in Books 7–8. It claimed to embody the teaching of the apostles mediate…