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47 – Paul (also known as Saul of Tarsus) begins his first missionary journey to Western Anatolia, part of modern-day Turkey via Cyprus. [3] 50 – Council of Jerusalem on admitting Gentiles into the Church [3] 51 – Paul begins his second missionary journey, a trip that will take him through modern-day Turkey and on into Greece [4]
Map of St. Paul's missionary journeys The author of Acts arranges Paul's travels into three separate journeys. The first journey, [ 112 ] for which Paul and Barnabas were commissioned by the Antioch community, [ 113 ] and led initially by Barnabas, [ note 5 ] took Barnabas and Paul from Antioch to Cyprus then into southern Asia Minor, and ...
There is a present-day village called "Kilistra" near Gökyurt, a village of the Meram district of Konya province. [5] Ancient ruins can be seen near Klistra, including a church with a big cross marked on the wall, a winery, house-like buildings, and the ruins of a city located over the top of a hill which is locally called "Alusumas", where ...
With the start of their missionary activity, early Jewish Christians also started to attract proselytes, Gentiles who were fully or partly converted to Judaism. [21] [note 1] According to James Dunn, Paul's initial persecution of Christians probably was directed against these Greek-speaking "Hellenists" due to their anti-Temple attitude. [22]
Nicolas, one of the Seven Deacons, was a missionary from Antioch. Antioch was also the birthplace of John Chrysostom, a prominent Christian father who died in 407 AD. [9] [full citation needed] The seat of the Patriarchate was originally in Antioch (in present-day Turkey). In response to the Ottoman invasion in the 15th century, it was moved to ...
The Conversion of Saint Paul, Luca Giordano, 1690, Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy The Conversion of Saint Paul, Caravaggio, 1600. The conversion of Paul the Apostle (also the Pauline conversion, Damascene conversion, Damascus Christophany and Paul's "road to Damascus" event) was, according to the New Testament, an event in the life of Saul/Paul the Apostle that led him to cease persecuting early ...
Paul the Apostle visited Galatia in his missionary journeys, [17] and wrote to the Christians there in the Epistle to the Galatians. Although originally possessing a strong cultural identity , by the 2nd century AD, the Galatians had become assimilated ( Hellenization ) into the Hellenistic civilization of Anatolia . [ 18 ]
As the port of Antioch of Syria, [2] "Seleucia on sea"—so called to distinguish it from other cities of the same name—is most notable as the precise point of embarkation from which the Apostle Paul [in 45 CE] and Saint Barnabas sailed from this port on their first missionary journeys, as chronicled in the Bible (Acts 13:4). [6]