who spread christianity throughout rome?
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During the reign of the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great (AD 306–337), Christianity began to transition to the dominant religion of the Roman Empire.
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Soon, Irish missionaries such as Columba and Columbanus spread this Christianity, with its distinctively Irish features, to Scotland and the Continent. One such feature was the system of private penitence, which replaced the former practice of penance as a public rite.
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The Laodicean Church was a Christian community established in the ancient city of Laodicea (on the river Lycus, in the Roman province of Asia, and one of the early centers of Christianity).
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Arthur was a leader of the Christian Britons, people who had been converted to Christianity when the Romans occupied the islands. When the Romans withdrew, this left the Christians in a precarious position, surround by mostly hostile and mostly pagan neighbors.
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Types of Christianity Christianity is broadly split into three branches: Catholic, Protestant and (Eastern) Orthodox. The Catholic branch is governed by the Pope and Catholic bishops around the world.
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Peter and Paul are both patron saints of Rome. St. Peter was one of the 12 apostles, as well as the first pope and founder of the Roman Church.
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Types of Christianity Christianity is broadly split into three branches: Catholic, Protestant and (Eastern) Orthodox.
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The spread of Christianity. After Jesus, the two most significant figures in Christianity are the apostles Peter and Paul/Saul. Paul, in particular, takes a leading role in spreading the teachings of Jesus to Gentiles (non Jews) in the Roman Empire.
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The Abrahamic religions are monotheistic faiths from West Asia that revolve around and accept the tradition that God revealed himself to Abraham. Abrahamic religion spread globally through Christianity being adopted by the Roman Empire in the 4th century and Islam by the Islamic Empires from the 7th century.
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Edict of Milan, proclamation that permanently established religious toleration for Christianity within the Roman Empire. It was the outcome of a political agreement concluded in Mediolanum (modern Milan) between the Roman emperors Constantine I and Licinius in February 313.
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From the beginning Roman religion was polytheistic. From an initial array of gods and spirits, Rome added to this collection to include both Greek gods as well as a number of foreign cults.
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The Roman Catholic Church traces its history to Jesus Christ and the Apostles. Over the course of centuries it developed a highly sophisticated theology and an elaborate organizational structure headed by the papacy, the oldest continuing absolute monarchy in the world.
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Most important event during the period of European invasions is the vikings accepting Christianity.
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Some argue that Luke wrote the Book of Acts while in Rome, not only as a defense of Christianity in general but also as a defense of the Apostle Paul as he appeared before Caesar. At the same time, it must be realized that the Book of Acts only presents a very narrow view of the early church.
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In 313 AD, the Emperor Constantine issued the Edict of Milan, which accepted Christianity: 10 years later, it had become the official religion of the Roman Empire.
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During the reign of Justinian I ( r . 527–565), the empire reached its greatest extent, after reconquering much of the historically Roman western Mediterranean coast, including North Africa, Italy and Rome, which it held for two more centuries.
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The Roman Empire was, well, an empire. ... And the reason why the Roman Catholic Church church established itself in Rome is because the last couple of rulers of the Roman Empire embraced Christianity and made it the empire's exclusive religion. Then the empire collapsed, but the Church remained centered there.