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each of the twelve chief disciples of Jesus Christ.any important early Christian teacher, especially St. Paul.synonyms:disciple, follower Morethe first successful Christian missionary in a country or to a people."Kiril and Metodije, the apostles of the Slavs"
the definition for it is a follower. the twelve disciples were also called apostles and they are the followers of Jesus christ. you  don't have to physically follow Jesus christ but follow him every single day by praying keeping his commandments and basically surrendering yourself to him(Jesus christ) and the apostles were also called Christian   hope I helped