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Another phase of Christianity in Africa began with the arrival of Portuguese in the 15th century. [47] After the end of Reconquista, the Christian Portuguese and Spanish captured many ports in North Africa. [48] Missionary expeditions undertaken by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) began as early as 1548 in various regions of Africa.
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) 411 – Kingdom of Burgundy (Nicene Church) c. 420 – Najran (Nicene Church) 448 – Suebi ...
Another phase of Christianity in Africa began with the arrival of Portuguese in the 15th century. [22] After the end of Reconquista, the Christian Portuguese and Spanish captured many ports in North Africa. [23] The bishopric of Marrakesh continued to exist until the late 16th century and was borne by the suffragans of Seville.
Christianity, however, did not even then cease to make distant conquests; Christian epitaphs are to be found at Sour El-Ghozlane, dated 227, and at Tipasa, dated 238. These dates are assured. If we rely on texts less definite we may admit that the evangelization of Northern Africa began very early.
After the Americans broke free, British officials decided to enhance the power and wealth of the Church of England in all the settler colonies, especially British North America (Canada). [ 36 ] During the New Imperialism of the 19th century, the London Missionary Society and others like it were active In the British Empire around the world ...
Latourette, Kenneth Scott, The Great Century: North Africa and Asia 1800 A.D. to 1914 A.D. (A History of The Expansion of Christianity, Volume 5) (1943), Comprehensive scholarly coverage. full text online also online review; Moffett, Samuel Hugh. A History of Christianity in Asia, Vol. II: 1500–1900 (2003) excerpt; Mong, Ambrose.
The Christianisation of Anglo-Saxon England was the process starting in the late 6th century by which population of England formerly adhering to the Anglo-Saxon, and later Nordic, forms of Germanic paganism converted to Christianity and adopted Christian worldviews.
By the early 600s, Christianity was established around the Mediterranean, [199] however, between 632 and 750, the Islamic caliphates conquered the Middle East and North Africa. [ 200 ] [ 201 ] Islamic rule devastated Asian urban churches, but the remoteness of Nestorian monasteries better enabled them to survive.