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

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Nikitari, Cyprus: Asinou Church frescoes
Jesus; Christianity
apostle; Christianity
El Greco: Pentecost
Missionary travels of St. Paul in the eastern Mediterranean
spread of Christianity
Constantine I
First Council of Nicaea
Trinity
Baptism of Christ
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Caravaggio: The Conversion of St. Paul (second version)
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
St. Polycarp
Greek bishop
Leo I
St. Leo I
pope
St. Isaac the Great
Armenian religious leader
Galerius, marble bust; in the Capitoline Museum, Rome
Galerius
Roman emperor
Novatian
antipope
St. Gregory Thaumaturgus
Greek Christian apostle
Diadochus Of Photice
theologian
Athenagoras
Greek Christian philosopher and apologist
Tatian
Syrian biblical writer

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