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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 ...
[28] [29] Cyprus is the only Christian majority country in the Middle East, with Christians forming between 76% and 78% of the country's total population, most of them adhering to Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Lebanon has the second highest proportion of Christians in the Middle East, around 40%, predominantly Maronites.
The CMS made an important contribution to the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East. The Church Mission Society (CMS), was founded in Britain in 1799 under the name the Society for Missions to Africa and the East. [1] In 1812, the organization was renamed the Church Missionary Society, [2] and later the Church Mission Society.
635 – First Christian missionaries (Church of the East monks, including Alopen, from Asia Minor and Persia arrive in China; [46] Aidan of Lindisfarne begins evangelizing in the heart of Northumbria (England) [47] 637 – Lombards, a German people living in northern Italy, become Christians
As the Christian religion spread throughout the Roman and Persian Empires, it took root in the Middle East, and cities such as Alexandria and Edessa became important centers of Christian scholarship. By the 5th century, Christianity was the dominant religion in the Middle East, with other faiths (gradually including heretical Christian sects ...
Christianity was a prominent monotheistic religion in pre-Islamic Arabia. Christianization was a major phenomena in Arabian late antiquity, driven by missionary activities from Syrian Christians in the north and by Christianity's entrenchment in South Arabia after the conquest of this area (518 to 525) by the Ethiopian Christian Kingdom of Aksum.
Proselytism, combined with sporadic Sassanian persecutions and the exiling of Christian communities in their own area, caused the spread of Christianity to the east. The Edict of Milan in 313, granted Christianity toleration by the Roman Empire. After the Emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity, the indigenous Christians of Persia were ...
Members of the Jesuit delegation to China were perhaps the most influential Christian missionaries in that country between the earliest period of the religion up until the 19th century, when significant numbers of Catholic and Protestant missions developed. A map of the 200-odd Jesuit churches and missions established across China c. 1687.