How did Christianity come to Egypt?

Answer 1

The very first time Christianity came to Eqypt was when Jesus Himself fled to Eqypt as a young Child with His mother Mary and Joseph (Matthew 2:13-15). Then the first apostle who came to Eqypt was St Mark the Evangelist, who founded the Church in Alexandria, since Alexandria was the capital of Eqypt at that time. St Mark later became the first bishop of the Church in Alexandria, also known as the See of St Mark, and provided the basis on which the "Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa" was established, and still exists to this day.

Answer 2

The gospels say that Christianity originated in Palestine, with the life and mission of Jesus of Nazareth.

A contrary view held by a small minority of scholars is that Christianity originated, at least in part, from neo-Platonism. Certainly, Philo of Alexandria, the first-century Jewish philosopher, was a follower of neo-Platonism and he is seen as contributing to early Christian thought. Christianity was no doubt influenced by neo-Platonism and other concepts coming out of Egypt, but there is very little evidence to support the proposal that Christianity actually originated in Egypt.

Answer 3

AnswerIt seems that Christianity came to the city of Alexandria during the first century CE. However it had little impact in other Egyptian cities until the reign of the Roman emperor Constantine, early in the fourth century.

Answer 4

Egypt declared Christianity back in 71 AD after the entrance of mark the apostle and the evangelist to Alexandria in 43 AD, at that time the Egyptian were in an era of believing in one God instead of different gods, except they called him the unknown god, mark the apostle and the evangelist went in Alexandria asking them if they want to know the unknown God, and started teaching about Christ. since then the first church was build in 55 AD in alexandria

Answer 5

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There is no record of how Christianity first spread to Egypt. However, there was a very large Jewish community in Alexandria and it is very likely that some early diaspora Jews converted to Christianity, especially after the events of 70 CE. However, the Christian population of Egypt remained low until the decision of Emperor Theodosius to ban public worship in the pagan temples, after which Egyptians quickly adopted the new faith.

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It is more probable that there were Jews from Egypt at Jerusalem at Pentecost after the resurrection of Jesus. These heard the gospel message and believed and took the gospel back to Egypt.

In Acts it is recorded that here were people from many parts of the Mediterranean (and further) for Pentecost.

Act 2:8 And how is it that we hear, each in our own language in which we were born?

Act 2:9 Parthians and Medes and Elamites, those dwelling in Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,

Act 2:10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya adjoining Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,

Act 2:11 Cretans and Arabs-we hear them speaking in our own tongues the wonderful works of God."

On that day of Pentecost The Bible says 3000 souls were saved.