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Montanus, self-proclaimed prophet and founder of Montanism, last quarter of 2nd century CE Tertullian , church father, apologist, first Christian writer in Latin, later a Montanist 197~230 Hippolytus , church father, sometimes termed the first Antipope , reconciled with the church and died a martyr 217~236
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 needed] Early Christianity developed out of the eschatological ministry of Jesus.
5th century Novatian [2] 258: commented on the Psalms [16] Oecumenius: 6th century: author of the first extant Greek commentary on the Apocalypse [13] Optatus: 4th century: combated Donatism [2] Origen of Alexandria: 254: posthumously anathematized at Fifth Ecumenical Council (553) Orosius [2] 418 Pachomius [2] [20] 348: Father of Christian ...
Works of fathers in early Christianity, prior to Nicene Christianity, were translated into English in a 19th-century collection Ante-Nicene Fathers. Those of the First Council of Nicaea and continuing through the Second Council of Nicea (787) are collected in Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers.
'Teaching') [33] is a brief early Christian treatise, dated anywhere from as early as AD 50 to the end of the 1st century. [34] It contains instructions for Christian communities. The text, parts of which may have constituted the first written catechism , has three main sections dealing with Christian lessons, rituals such as baptism and the ...
According to Orthodox tradition, Christianity was first preached in Georgia by the Apostles Simon and Andrew in the 1st century. It became the state religion of Kartli in 319. The conversion of Kartli to Christianity is credited to a Greek lady called St. Nino of Cappadocia.
While the preceding and following periods were diverse, they possessed unifying characteristics lacking in this period. 1st-century Christianity possessed a basic cohesion based on the Pauline church movement, Jewish character, and self-identification as a messianic movement. The 2nd and 3rd centuries saw a sharp divorce from its early roots.
Clement of Rome (Latin: Clemens Romanus; Ancient Greek: Κλήμης Ῥώμης, romanized: Klēmēs Rōmēs; died c. 100 AD), also known as Pope Clement I, was the bishop of Rome in the late first century AD. He is considered to be the first of the Apostolic Fathers of the Church, [2] and a leading member of the Church in Rome in the late 1st ...