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Christianity then rapidly grew in the 4th century, accounting for 56.5% of the Roman population by 350. [43] By the latter half of the second century, Christianity had spread east throughout Media, Persia, Parthia, and Bactria. The twenty bishops and many presbyters were more of the order of itinerant missionaries, passing from place to place ...
The Catholic Church during the Age of Discovery inaugurated a major effort to spread Christianity in the New World and to convert the indigenous peoples of the Americas and other indigenous peoples. The evangelical effort was a major part of, and a justification for, the military conquests of European powers such as Portugal , Spain , and France .
Missionary activities spread Christianity across western Europe. Monks and nuns were prominent in establishing a Christendom that influenced every aspect of medieval life. From the ninth-century into the twelfth, politicization and Christianization went hand-in-hand in developing East-Central Europe.
Christian missionary activity spread "the Way" and slowly created early centers of Christianity with Gentile adherents in the predominantly Greek-speaking eastern half of the Roman Empire, and then throughout the Hellenistic world and even beyond the Roman Empire.
Christianity spread to Aramaic-speaking peoples along the Mediterranean coast and also to the inland parts of the Roman Empire and beyond that into the Parthian Empire and the later Sasanian Empire, including Mesopotamia, which was dominated at different times and to varying extents by these empires. [38]
When Christianity spread beyond Judaea, it first arrived in Jewish diaspora communities. [50] The Christian church was modeled on the synagogue , and Christian philosophers synthesized their Christian views with Semitic monotheism and Greek thought.
The spread of Christianity in Europe by 325 AD (dark blue) and 600 AD (light blue). During the 9th century, the Emperor in Constantinople encouraged missionary expeditions to nearby nations including the Muslim caliphate, and the Turkic Khazars. [citation needed] In 862 he sent Saints Cyril and Methodius to Slavic Great Moravia.
When Christianity spread beyond Judaea, it first arrived in Jewish diaspora communities. [50] The early Gospel message spread orally, probably originally in Aramaic, [51] but almost immediately also in Greek. [52] Within the first century, the messages began to be recorded in writing and spread abroad.