As the Christian Church grew, each nation and culture who received the Gospel in turn influenced the growth of the Church. Similar missionary journeys were undertaken by other Apostles throughout the Hellenized Eastern Mediterranean, as well as deep into the heart of the Latin West, to Rome itself, the capital of the Empire. Antioch became the staging area for the great missionary journeys of the Apostle Paul, which resulted in the foundation of a string of Greek-speaking Christian communities in Asia Minor (present-day Turkey) and Greece. The first mission of the New Testament Church to the Greek-speaking Gentiles of the Levant was to Antioch, in the Roman province of Syria, where “the disciples were first called Christians” (Acts 11:26). After the descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost (Acts 2:1-4), the Apostles began to proclaim the Gospel, first to Jerusalem, then to the Gentiles.
Our parish serves the Ukrainian Byzantine Catholic community in the Delaware, Maryland & Pennsylvania. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church. The Byzantine Catholic Church shares in the inheritance of the first Greek-speaking Christian communities of the Eastern Mediterranean world, founded by the Apostles of Jesus Christ.Welcome to St. These three Eastern centers shared a common language, Greek, and similar mode of discourse which formed the basis for the subsequent development of the Eastern Christian tradition. The Church in the East grew and developed from the Churches in Jerusalem, Antioch and Alexandria. The Church in the West had its principal center at the Imperial capital of Rome, and is known in our present-day as the Roman Catholic Church.
0 kommentar(er)
