Abstract: The present invention discloses an adhesively sealed, sterile, packaging apparatus that includes a sterile envelope having a sterile compartment to receive all or part of a sterile article therein and wherein a second embodiment is included having two half sections that are adhesively sealed and joined together so as to allow a sterile article to be encapsulated within the sterile envelope defined thereby. Each embodiment provides a sterile enviroment therein and allows the envelope or sections thereof to be readily pulled apart without contaminating the sterile article.