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Geographical Expansion of Christianity - Coggle Diagram
Geographical Expansion of Christianity
East
Persia
Late 2nd Century a church was established
Armenia
Tertullian knew of Christians living there in the early 3rd cenury
India
Some evidence of Christians by the 3rd century
South- West
Egypt
Jews from Alexandria present at Pentecost
Precise details of the early history of the Church = missing
Alexandria became a leading Christian centre with a famous catechetical school
About 100 dioceses by the end of the 3rd century
Cyrene
Jews = present at Pentecost in Jersuelm (Acts 2:10, 41)
Among 1st Christians to preach to Gentiles
Early 6th century= 6 dioceses
Ethiopia
Gospel expanded via main trade route
Coversion of Ethiopian treasury -> Acts 8:26
North Africa
No records survives of orign of the Church
Carthage became a leading centre for Christianity in the 3rd century
North- West
Spread rapidly
Syria, Asia Minor, Greece and Rome
Progress= slower
Gaul, Spain and Britain
Syrian Antioch
Very important Gentile Church
Base for organized missionaries to Asia Minor and Greece by Barnabus and Paul
Base for organized outreach eastwards into Armenia, Mesopotamia ( Iraq) and Persia
Bishop Ignatius = important representative of this Church
Asia Minor
Churches found by Barnabas and Paul
Several NT= addressed to Churches
Paul and John-> stong links with the chuch in Ephesus
Letters from Ignatius
Most Christian part of the Empire in the 3rd century
Greece
Paul was very active in Achaia and Macedonia (Acts 16:9-18)
Paul had links to Philippi and Corinth <- several NT letters addressed to these Churches
Bishop Polycarp wrote a letter to Philippi in the early 2nd century
Bishop Celement (Rome) wrote to Corinth about 96 CE
Rome
Jews present at Pentecost in Jerusalem
49 CE= Claudius expelled Jews from Rome -> rioting at the name of Chrestus (Christ)
Paul wrote a letter to the Church about 57 CE
Paul + Peter = victims of the Neronian persecution (64-67 CE)
Bishop Soter (166 CE) claimed that Christians outnumbered Jews in AD166
Bishop Cornelius listed 46 presbyters (elders), 7 deacons, 7 sub-deacons, 42 acolytes, 52 exorcists, readers and door keepers and 1,500 widows + needy people in connection with the church
100 bishops in Italy mid 3rd century
France
Gaul
Paul's companion, Crescens (11 Timothy 4:10) possibly brought the gospel
Early 4th century= several bishoprics established
Lyon
Congregations existed at Lyon + Vienne in the mid 2nd century
177 CE = well documented persecution
Spain
Paul certainly intended to take the gospel (Romans 15:19, 24) and may have preached there (I Clement and Muratorian Fragment)
200 CE = mentions of bishops in the important larger cities
Late 3rd century= 60 Spanish bishops <- at least 60 churches
Britain
Origins = uncertain
Alban may have been martyred here in the Great Persecution (303-4)
314 =3 bishops attend the Council of Arles
400 CE = Roman Britain was a braodly Christian province
432 CE Patrick began work in Ireland but Christianity was already present on the island