[FactQuest]

And those same apostles believed that their special privileges could be passed on.

Intriguing, I hadn't really heard that before. Do you have a reference, one of the early church fathers, perhaps?

[conservonator]

Acts 1:26 And they drew lots for them, and the lot fell to Matthias; and he was added to the eleven apostles.

Was Matthias denied the privileges possessed by the other apostles?