Apostolate

1. n. The dignity or office of the pope, as the holder of the apostolic see.
2. n. The dignity, office, or mission, of an apostle; apostleship.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.