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title: "Acts 6 – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin Vulgate · Bless"
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description: "The ordination of the seven deacons. The zeal of Stephen. Acts 6 in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin Vulgate."
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# Acts 6

Acts 6 is chapter 6 of 28 in the Acts of the Apostles. Here are all 15 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> The ordination of the seven deacons. The zeal of Stephen.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Acts 6 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. In those days, as the number of disciples was increasing, there occurred a murmuring of the Greeks against the Hebrews, because their widows were treated with disdain in the daily ministration.
2. And so the twelve, calling together the multitude of the disciples, said: “It is not fair for us to leave behind the Word of God to serve at tables also.
3. Therefore, brothers, search among yourselves for seven men of good testimony, filled with the Holy Spirit and with wisdom, whom we may appoint over this work.
4. Yet truly, we will be continually in prayer and in the ministry of the Word.”
5. And the plan pleased the entire multitude. And they chose Stephen, a man filled with faith and with the Holy Spirit, and Philip and Prochorus and Nicanor and Timon and Parmenas and Nicolas, a new arrival from Antioch.
6. These they set before the sight of the Apostles, and while praying, they imposed hands on them.
7. And the Word of the Lord was increasing, and the number of disciples in Jerusalem was multiplied exceedingly. And even a large group of the priests were obedient to the faith.
8. Then Stephen, filled with grace and fortitude, wrought great signs and miracles among the people.
9. But certain ones, from the synagogue of the so-called Libertines, and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of those who were from Cilicia and Asia rose up and were disputing with Stephen.
10. But they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking.
11. Then they suborned men who were to claim that they had heard him speaking words of blasphemy against Moses and against God.
12. And thus did they stir up the people and the elders and the scribes. And hurrying together, they seized him and brought him to the council.
13. And they set up false witnesses, who said: “This man does not cease to speak words against the holy place and the law.
14. For we have heard him saying that this Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this place and will change the traditions, which Moses handed down to us.”
15. And all those who were sitting in the council, gazing at him, saw his face, as if it had become the face of an Angel.

## Acts 6 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. In diebus illis, crescente numero discipulorum, factum est murmur Græcorum adversus Hebræos, eo quod despicerentur in ministerio quotidiano viduæ eorum.
2. Convocantes autem duodecim multitudinem discipulorum, dixerunt: Non est æquum nos derelinquere verbum Dei, et ministrare mensis.
3. Considerate ergo, fratres, viros ex vobis boni testimonii septem, plenos Spiritu Sancto et sapientia, quos constituamus super hoc opus.
4. Nos vero orationi et ministerio verbi instantes erimus.
5. Et placuit sermo coram omni multitudine. Et elegerunt Stephanum, virum plenum fide et Spiritu Sancto, et Philippum, et Prochorum, et Nicanorem, et Timonem, et Parmenam, et Nicolaum advenam Antiochenum.
6. Hos statuerunt ante conspectum Apostolorum: et orantes imposuerunt eis manus.
7. Et verbum Domini crescebat, et multiplicabatur numerus discipulorum in Jerusalem valde: multa etiam turba sacerdotum obediebat fidei.
8. Stephanus autem plenus gratia et fortitudine, faciebat prodigia et signa magna in populo.
9. Surrexerunt autem quidam de synagoga quæ appellatur Libertinorum, et Cyrenensium, et Alexandrinorum, et eorum qui erant a Cilicia, et Asia, disputantes cum Stephano:
10. et non poterant resistere sapientiæ, et Spiritui qui loquebatur.
11. Tunc summiserunt viros, qui dicerent se audivisse eum dicentem verba blasphemiæ in Moysen et in Deum.
12. Commoverunt itaque plebem, et seniores, et scribas: et concurrentes rapuerunt eum, et adduxerunt in concilium,
13. et statuerunt falsos testes, qui dicerent: Homo iste non cessat loqui verba adversus locum sanctum, et legem:
14. audivimus enim eum dicentem quoniam Jesus Nazarenus hic destruet locum istum, et mutabit traditiones quas tradidit nobis Moyses.
15. Et intuentes eum omnes qui sedebant in concilio, viderunt faciem ejus tamquam faciem angeli.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- cf. CCC ¶ 2632: Prayer of Petition ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 595: Jesus Died Crucified ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 1: “Greeks” … So they called the Jews that were born and brought up in Greece.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Sat, Dec 26, 2026: St. Stephen, First Martyr — First Reading, Acts 6:8-10; 7:54-59
- Sat, Apr 10, 2027: Saturday of the Second Week of Easter — First Reading, Acts 6:1-7
- Mon, Apr 12, 2027: Monday of the Third Week of Easter — First Reading, Acts 6:8-15
- Sat, Apr 29, 2028 (computed): St. Catherine of Siena, Virgin and Doctor of the Church — First Reading, Acts 6:1-7

2 more dates through December 31, 2028, in the [liturgical calendar](https://blessbible.app/calendar/).

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).