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Also Known As early church • early Christian church • primitive church

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Nikitari, Cyprus: Asinou Church frescoes
Stained glass window by Edouard Amedee Didron in Saint Thomas Aquinas Church, Paris, showing Jesus in glory surrounded by apostles and angels with halos.
Fresco by Enrico Reffo depicting the twelve apostles standing in a row with halos, set against a gold patterned background in San Dalmazzo church, Turin, Italy.
El Greco: Pentecost
Map depicting the routes of St. Paul's four missionary journeys in the eastern Mediterranean during Biblical times, with each journey shown in a different color. The map covers regions including Italy, Greece, Asia Minor (modern Turkey), Cyprus, Crete, and the Levant, highlighting key cities such as Rome, Athens, Ephesus, Antioch, and Jerusalem.
Map depicting the spread of Christianity through the 11th century across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. Areas where Christianity was established by 1100 are shaded, with lines marking the boundaries of the Roman Empire under Constantine and the Holy Roman Empire around 1000. The map also shows the division between Western and Eastern Christianity in 1054 and highlights locations of Eastern independent churches such as the Copts and Nestorians. Major regions, peoples, and cities are l
Constantine I
First Council of Nicaea
Trinity
Baptism of Christ
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St. Paul the Apostle
Christian Apostle
Justus of Ghent: Saint Augustine
St. Augustine
Christian bishop and theologian
Constantine I
Constantine I
Roman emperor
Diocletian
Diocletian
Roman emperor
Theodosius I
Theodosius I
Roman emperor
Nero
Nero
Roman emperor
Julian the Apostate
Julian
Roman emperor
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, woodcut, 1537.
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
Roman scholar, philosopher, and statesman
St. Gregory of Nazianzus
St. Gregory of Nazianzus
Byzantine theologian
St. Gregory of Nyssa
Saint Gregory of Nyssa
Byzantine philosopher and theologian
Thomas Ball: Saint John the Evangelist
St. John the Apostle
Christian Apostle
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St. Polycarp
Greek bishop
Pope Leo I
St. Leo I
pope
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St. Isaac the Great
Armenian religious leader
Galerius, marble bust; in the Capitoline Museum, Rome
Galerius
Roman emperor
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Novatian
antipope
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St. Gregory Thaumaturgus
Greek Christian apostle
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Diadochus Of Photice
theologian
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Athenagoras
Greek Christian philosopher and apologist
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Tatian
Syrian biblical writer

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