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Christianity was proclamed the official religion of the roman empire on 550ish a.c. It means that the emperors where christians from then (or needed to be nice with the christian god.)
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∙ 12y agoThe Catholic Church is in Vatican City, an independent city-state located in Rome.
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What ancient church has its headquarters in rome?
The Roman Catholic CHurch.
Is the small area in Rome that serves as the world headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church?
The worldwide headquarters of the Catholic Church is the Vatican in Rome and is headed by the Pope. The 'headquarters' are in the Vatican city. This is inside Rome but it has its own government so it is not actually part of Rome.
Why are Northern Irish Catholics encouraged to have at least 10 children by the Church of Rome?
Roman Catholic AnswerNorthern Irish Catholics are not encouraged to have any specific number of children by the Church. It is not the "Church of Rome", is the Catholic Church, whose headquarters are in Rome.
What is the independent city-state located within Rome that is the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church?
Vatican City
Is christianity a religion in rome right now?
Since the headquarters of the Catholic Church is the Vatican, and the Vatican is located in Rome, you could say that there are a lot of Christians in Rome right now.
What is the head quarters of the Roman Catholic Church?
If you mean by headquarters, where the Pope lives... It would be the Vatican, a city in Rome.
Why is Rome considered a holy city?
Because it is where St. Peter and his successors the Popes set up the headquarters of the Catholic Church.
What is the seat of the Catholic Church?
I assume you mean the Chair of St. Peter, which is currently held by Pope Benedict the XII, living in Vatican City. Country is located inside the city of Rome.
Where is the headquarters of the Roman Catholic church in Italy?
In the Vatican City, Rome. The Vatican City State is the smallest independent country in the world and lies within the centre of the capital city of Italy, Rome.
What is the name for the Italian headquarters of The Catholic Church?
the VaticanRoman Catholic AnswerNormally, the "headquarters" for each diocese is the city in which the Bishop has his cathedral, or "see". The Pope, who is Vicar of Christ has his cathedral in Rome, St. John Lateran.
Why is the pope located at the Vatican and not in Jerusalem?
Peter is considered the first pope even though the term 'pope' did not come into common usage until much later. Whether Peter was in Jerusalem, Antioch, Rome or elsewhere, he is still considered the first pope. Later, as the Church grew and a hierarchy developed. the Church established its headquarters in Rome as Rome was considered the center of the world at the time. It had good roads reaching out to the vast empire as well as ships that plied the Mediterranean. Missionaries could reach anywhere in the known world from Rome. As the pope was the highest ranking Church authority in Rome, he was automatically consider the Bishop of Rome.
What year did St. Peter and his successors set the headquarters of the Catholic Church?
We don't know the exact year that St. Peter went to Rome, nor the year that he was martyred there, but with his death and burial in Rome; along with that of St. Paul, Rome became the center of the Catholic Church until the end. See the Catholic Encyclopedia article at the link below.
