No. Paul wrote his Epistle to the Romans before he had ever gone to Rome, proving that there was already a well-established Christian community there.
It was Paul most likely. Even before that, there were people ''from every nation under heaven'' present on the day of Pentecost when the Holy spirit weas poured out and three thousand were saved. Undoubtedly these spread the Gospel truth around the Meditterranean and beyond when they returned home.
There was no one particular person who spread Christianity throughout the empire. All of the disciples/apostles of Jesus went out to "teach all nations". Several apostles are patrons of distant countries and they may very well have traveled to them. For example, James is affiliated with Spain, Peter with Rome, Luke, although not an apostle but a friend of Paul, is buried in Padua, Italy according to the latest DNA. Paul himself traveled and wrote throughout the middle east until he was taken to Rome as a prisoner. The Roman Emperor Constantine also helped spread Christianity by declaring it the official religion of the Roman Empire.
The preaching of Sts. Peter & Paul.
The spread of Christianity had political ramifications for the Roman Empire. The empire split into two, Constantinople to the east and Rome to the west
For he is also a Roman. But many Romans did not accept his preaching. The Roman Empire lost it's empirical power but not it's ecclesiastical power which is catholicism, not Paul's preachings.
We do not know how or when Christianity first arrived in Rome, but Paul's Epistle to the Romans demonstrates a flourishing Christian community existed there when he proposed his visit to Rome, on his way to Spain.
Christianity was spread because of the aggressive evangelizing that the first century Christians did. Most notably, the Apostle Paul made a missionary trip to Rome. Since Paul was a Roman citizen by law he was able to do more legally than most other Christians at the time. Although, even he ended up in prison eventually. By the time of the 4th century, Christianity had spread so much throughout the Roman Empire, that the Emperor Constantine made a power move, first to make it legal to practice the religion, and then he made it the official religion of the Empire later on during his reign.
It was Paul most likely. Even before that, there were people ''from every nation under heaven'' present on the day of Pentecost when the Holy spirit weas poured out and three thousand were saved. Undoubtedly these spread the Gospel truth around the Meditterranean and beyond when they returned home.
There was no one particular person who spread Christianity throughout the empire. All of the disciples/apostles of Jesus went out to "teach all nations". Several apostles are patrons of distant countries and they may very well have traveled to them. For example, James is affiliated with Spain, Peter with Rome, Luke, although not an apostle but a friend of Paul, is buried in Padua, Italy according to the latest DNA. Paul himself traveled and wrote throughout the middle east until he was taken to Rome as a prisoner. The Roman Emperor Constantine also helped spread Christianity by declaring it the official religion of the Roman Empire.
St. Paul, who spread Christianity as far as Rome. Constantine made Christianity the official state religion of the Roman Empire.
Primarily, it was the Apostle Paul, selected to go to the gentiles.
Yes it did
Christianity was spread in the city of Rome among the lower classes, because of the teachings of Jesus' Apostles, such as Paul, who was a Roman citizen, and also Peter, who was Martyred in this city. Christians suffered prosecution by Roman authorities in the early years of the religion propagation, but all this ended when Emperor Constantine became an adept of the religion and protected the church.
Paul
Well, after Jesus death, Saul known as Paul was persecuting the Christians. After Jesus Christ appeared to him, he became a Christian. Now Paul was a natural born citizen of Rome, so whenever he had the chance he traveled to Rome. Possibly to visit his family. Now Paul was an evangelist and whenever he preached, most of the people he preached to became Christians. From there, the good news of Christianity was spread. That is why Rome is the capital of world Christianity.
Christianity spread in all directions from Jerusalem. The apostles obeyed the dictum, "go, teach ye all nations..." We are more familiar with the spread to Rome, but there were pockets of Christians in Asia and India.
It was within 10 years after the 1st Pentecost in June, 31 AD that the Apostles began speading the Word of God throughout the adjacent areas - which included Greece and Rome. It really began to spread throughout Europe after Constantine of Roman accepted Christianity as a religion of the Empire.