Quiz on Saints’ Lives

The Orthodox Church glorifies Peter's steadfastness and Paul's reasoning and considers in the Apostle Peter the image of one who denied the Lord and repented, and in the Apostle Paul - the image of one who resisted the preaching of the Lord and then believed.
According to the Word of God, the Apostles occupy a special place in the Church - everyone must understand us as ministers of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God (1Cor.4:1).
Since the Acts of the Apostles mainly recounts the Writings of the Apostles Peter and Paul, the Church and the holy fathers, reverent at the name of each of the Apostles, call these two Apostles as the Chief Apostles.
The Church glorifies the Apostle Peter as the first of the Apostles to confess Jesus Christ as the Son of the living God; Paul as the one who labored more than others and was counted among the highest of the Apostles by the Holy Spirit (2Cor.2:5); the one - for his firmness, the other - for his luminous wisdom.
By calling the two apostles as chief, according to the primacy of order and labor, the Church insinuates that its head is Jesus Christ alone, and all the apostles are His ministers (Col.1:18).