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Shortly after the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ (Nisan 14 or 15), the Jerusalem church was founded as the first Christian church with about 120 Jews and Jewish Proselytes , followed by the events of Pentecost (Sivan 6) Ananias and Sapphira incident, Pharisee Gamaliel's defense of the Apostles (Acts 5:34–39),
The Church Fathers are the early and influential Christian theologians and writers, particularly those of the first five centuries of Christian history. The earliest Church Fathers, within two generations of the Twelve Apostles of Christ, are usually called Apostolic Fathers for reportedly knowing and studying under the apostles personally.
Montanus, self-proclaimed prophet and founder of Montanism, last quarter of 2nd century CE; Tertullian, church father, apologist, first Christian writer in Latin, later a Montanist 197~230; Hippolytus, church father, sometimes termed the first Antipope, reconciled with the church and died a martyr 217~236; Cyprian, bishop of Carthage, martyr ...
The Christian Tradition: The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (100–600). University of Chicago Press (1975). ISBN 0-226-65371-4. Pritz, Ray A., Nazarene Jewish Christianity From the End of the New Testament Period Until Its Disappearance in the Fourth Century. Magnes Press – E.J. Brill, Jerusalem – Leiden (1988). Richardson, Cyril Charles.
The first name of the church was in fact Basilica Martyrum. Basilica of Saint-Pierre-aux-Nonnains: Metz: France: 380 380 7th century Roman Catholic Originally built to be part of a Roman spa complex, the structure was converted into use as a church in the 7th century when it became the chapel of a Benedictine monastery. San Nazaro in Brolo ...
When Peter left Jerusalem after Herod Agrippa I tried to kill him, James appears as the principal authority of the early Christian church. [47] Clement of Alexandria (c. 150–215 AD) called him Bishop of Jerusalem. [47] A 2nd-century church historian, Hegesippus, wrote that the Sanhedrin martyred him in 62 AD. [47]
[37] [38] The letters of the Apostle Paul sent to the early Christian communities were circulating in collected form by the end of the first century. [39] First century Christians put these writings in a codex, the ancestor of modern books, and the Egyptian church likely invented the papyrus codex during the next decades. [40]
This is a list of people, who died just prior to the Massacre of the Innocents (the slaughter by Herod of Judea of male babies under two years old in an effort to eliminate the newborn King of the Jews) [1] or during the 1st century, who have received recognition from the Catholic Church as saints (through canonization).