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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.
Christianity continued to grow rapidly, both westwards and eastwards: [126] [127] In the fourth century the percentage of Christians was as high in the Sasanian Empire as in the Roman Empire. [128] Even as the Huns , Ostrogoths , Visigoths , and Vandals caused havoc in the Roman Empire in the fourth and fifth centuries, many converted to ...
The true end of ancient Jewish Christianity occurred only in the 5th century. [226] Gentile Christianity became the dominant strand of orthodoxy and imposed itself on the previously Jewish Christian sanctuaries, taking full control of those houses of worship by the end of the 5th century. [223] [note 20]
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.
364 – Rome returns to Christianity, specifically the Arian Church; c. 364 – Vandals (Arian Church) 376 – Goths and Gepids (Arian Church) 380 – Rome goes from Arian to Catholic/Orthodox (both terms are used refer to the same Church until 1054) 402 – Maronites; 411 – Kingdom of Burgundy (Nicene Church) c. 420 – Najran (Nicene Church)
The statement shows that the wearer "was clearly a devout Christian, which is absolutely unusual for this time," the city said. Researchers dated the grave where the amulet was found to between ...
Map of the Roman Empire with the distribution of Christian congregations of the first three centuries AD. The growth of Early Christianity from its obscure origin c. AD 40, with fewer than 1,000 followers, to being the majority religion of the entire Roman Empire by AD 400, has been examined through a wide variety of historiographical approaches.
300 First Christians reported in Greater Khorasan; an estimated 10% of the world's population is now Christian; parts of the Bible are available in 10 different languages [52] 301 – Armenia is the first kingdom in history to adopt Christianity as state religion