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According to Acts 11:26, Antioch was where the followers were first called Christians. Peter was later martyred in Rome, the capital of the Roman Empire. The apostles went on to spread the message of the Gospel around the classical world and founded apostolic sees around the early centers of Christianity. The last apostle to die was John in c. 100.
In the first-century, it spread into Asia Minor (Athens, Corinth, Ephesus, and Pergamum). [82] Egyptian Christianity probably began in the first-century in Alexandria. [83] As it spread, Coptic Christianity, which survives into the modern era, developed. [84] [85] Christianity in Antioch is mentioned in Paul's epistles. [86]
Early Christianity, otherwise called the Early Church or Paleo-Christianity, describes the historical era of the Christian religion up to the First Council of Nicaea in 325. Christianity spread from the Levant , across the Roman Empire , and beyond.
Followers of Jesus as the messiah trace the origin of the term Christian to the church established at Antioch. The first church was founded by Jesus Christ, before Pentecost on a mountain top with the disciples while Christ was still alive. According to verses 19–26 of Acts 11, Barnabas went to Tarsus in search of Saul and brought him to ...
Works of fathers in early Christianity, prior to Nicene Christianity, were translated into English in a 19th-century collection Ante-Nicene Fathers. Those of the First Council of Nicaea and continuing through the Second Council of Nicea (787) are collected in Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers .
9 17th century. 10 18th century. 11 19th century. 12 20th century. ... the Jerusalem church was founded as the first Christian church with about 120 Jews and Jewish ...
Hellenistic missionaries such as Philip founded new churches (Acts 8:40), so that Christianity expanded into Samaria, Syria and Asia Minor. The first large mixed congregation of Jews and Gentiles besides Jerusalem was founded in the Asia Minor metropolis of Antioch. Apparently, it was made easier or waived for these new Christians to observe ...
Historiography of early Christianity is the study of historical writings about early Christianity, which is the period before the First Council of Nicaea in 325. Historians have used a variety of sources and methods in exploring and describing Christianity during this time.