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Cornelius (Greek: Κορνήλιος, romanized: Kornḗlios; Latin: Cornelius; fl. 1st century AD) was a Roman centurion who is considered by some Christians to be the first Gentile to convert to the faith, as related in Acts of the Apostles (see Ethiopian eunuch for the competing tradition). The baptism of Cornelius is an important event in ...
Cornelius (name), Roman family name and a masculine given name; Cornelius the Centurion, Roman centurion considered by Christians to be the first Gentile to convert to the Christian faith; Pope Cornelius, pope from AD 251 to 253; St. Cornelius (disambiguation), multiple saints; Cornelius (musician), stage name of Keigo Oyamada
Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr., birth name of Robert Byrd, senator and congressman from West Virginia; ... Cornelius Van Til, Dutch-American Christian philosopher, ...
The year one is the first year in the Christian ... (or Chrestians [24]), possibly the earliest mention of Christians by that name, ... 1636–1638 Cornelius ...
This is a list of 1,089 early Christian saints before 450 AD in alphabetical order by Christian name. Alphabetical list ... Cornelius: 253 Cornelius the Centurion:
Pope Cornelius (Greek: Κορνήλιος) was the bishop of Rome from 6th or 13 March 251 until his martyrdom in June 253. He was pope during and following a period of persecution of the church, while a schism occurred over how repentant church members who had practiced pagan sacrifices to protect themselves could be readmitted to the church.
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Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judæa, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome, where all things hideous and ...