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  2. History of Christianity - Wikipedia

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    Christianity originated with the ministry of Jesus, a Jewish teacher and healer who proclaimed the imminent Kingdom of God. He was crucified and died c. AD 30–33 in Jerusalem in the Roman province of Judea. Afterwards, his followers, a set of apocalyptic Jews, proclaimed him risen from the dead.

  3. Timeline of Christianity - Wikipedia

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    1682 Avvakum, leader of the Old Believers, burned at the stake in the Far North of Russia. 1683 Roger Williams, advocate of Separation of church and state, founder of Providence, Rhode Island, dies. 1685 Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. 1685 James II of England baptizes his son as a Catholic.

  4. Early Christianity - Wikipedia

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    Early Christianity. Early Christianity, otherwise called the Early Church or Paleo-Christianity, describes the historical era of the Christian religion up to the First Council of Nicaea in 325. Christianity spread from the Levant, across the Roman Empire, and beyond.

  5. Christianity in the 1st century - Wikipedia

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    Jesus Washing Peter's Feet, painting by Ford Madox Brown (1852–1856), Tate Britain, London. Christianity in the 1st century covers the formative history of Christianity from the start of the ministry of Jesus ( c. 27 –29 AD) to the death of the last of the Twelve Apostles ( c. 100) and is thus also known as the Apostolic Age. [citation ...

  6. List of current Christian leaders - Wikipedia

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    General of The Salvation Army: Lyndon Buckingham. Prophet-President of the Community of Christ: Stephen M. Veazey. Patriarch of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church: Tomáš Butta. President of the Synod of the Reformed Church in the United States: Dr. Frank Walker. Patriarch of the Apostolic Catholic Church: Juan Almario.

  7. Church Fathers - Wikipedia

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    Christianity portal. v. t. e. The Church Fathers, Early Church Fathers, Christian Fathers, or Fathers of the Church were ancient and influential Christian theologians and writers who established the intellectual and doctrinal foundations of Christianity. The historical period in which they worked became known as the Patristic Era and spans ...

  8. History of Christianity in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Their history as a focal point for the Black community and as a link between the Black and White worlds made them natural for this purpose. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of many notable Black ministers involved in the movement. He helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1957), serving as

  9. Reformation - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, [1] was a major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church. Towards the end of the Renaissance, the Reformation marked the ...

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