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Catholic AnswerThe answer of the Church has always been that the ground of Rome was fertilized by the blood of the martyrs who gave their lives for God, and for His Church. The Christian Church was wildly successful in Rome for three centuries before it was legalized, one has only to read the accounts of the persecutions, the tortures, and the various ways in which the martyrs were killed to realize that God certainly worked miracles in the belief of people that they would convert in droves to a religion that almost guaranteed that they were going to lose their property, their money, and some of them their lives. Indeed, what drove people to embrace a new religion that would result in their lives being ruined or ended? God, who was offering them an eternity of happiness in heaven, and glory that would outshine the worst tortures that they had to endure. The legalization of the Church in the fourth century was probably not the best thing for her, throughout history, when Christianity becomes comfortable and acceptable, all kinds of people join for all the wrong reasons and the faith declines. The only way that we can gain heaven is to accept the cross, the Christian Church in Rome had a very obvious cross for centuries.AnswerWe do not know who established the first Christian church in Rome. In his epistles, Saint Paul tells us that there was already a Christian community in Rome by, perhaps, the 50s of the first century CE. And his epistles suggest that neither James nor Peter had travelled far from Jerusalem during the earliest years of Christianity.If we rule out Paul, James and Peter, then we are left merely to speculate who established the first Christian church in Rome.
St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, Italy.
Peter is usually credited with establishing the Church in Rome. There is a wealth of evidence, both documental and archaeological, that Peter and Paul ended up in Rome. While it is probably true that there were Christians in Rome long before Peter and Paul's settlement there, most scholars believe that it was Peter who established the Church there as a dynamic group of Christians from a scattered Christian population in hiding. Evidence for this includes the catacombs beneath the ancient city of Rome, where there exists a great deal of grafitti on the walls that refers both to Peter and to Paul, and to their presence in Rome. There is also a great deal of evidence that after the executions of Peter and Paul their bodies were taken and concealed in the St Sebastian Catacombs whch run under the Appian Way leading south out of Rome, only to be reinterred in their respective basilicas after Christianity became accepted as the religion of the Empire, St Peter's remains being interred in what is now the Vatican City, and St Paul's in his own Basilica on the southern side of the city. So, whether or not the church in Rome was 'founded' by Peter or Paul, they were well known to the Christians there, and there is much evidence that they ended their days there by execution, but not before a large Christian Church was established by them.
God does not like divorces and the christian church will not allow a divorcee to get married for a second time in church.
The church that Jesus Christ left on earth, was the Christian church, His Church, founded by his apostles. But what churches are these exactly. 1. The Church of Rome founded by the Apostle Peter and Paul 2. The Church of Constantinople founded by the Apostle Andrew 3. The Church of Alexandria founded by Mark the Evangelist 4. The Church of Jerusalem which was founded by Jesus himself, the continuation of his work in Jerusalem. 5. The Church of Antioch founded by the Apostle Peter. Each of these five churches before the East-West schism, formed the One true Holy and Catholic Apostolic Church, and it is from these that all other Christian denominations find their routes. Over time these churches witnessed internal schisms such as the protestant reformation which gave birth to the protestant churches. Therefore the church that Jesus Christ founded was the Christian church in all of its variation and glory
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I believe that the larget Christian church is the Basilica at Vatican City in Rome, Italy.
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In Vatican City in Rome Italy!
We do not know who founded a Christian church in Rome, because Paul's Epistle to the Romans shows there clearly was already a flourishing church there before he ever went to Rome. There is a tradition that Peter also went to Rome but, if he did do so, this would certainly have been later than Paul's Epistle to the Romans
AnswerWe do not know who established the first Christian church in Rome. In his epistles, Saint Paul tells us that there was already a Christian community in Rome by, perhaps, the 50s of the first century CE. And his epistles suggest that neither James nor Peter had travelled far from Jerusalem during the earliest years of Christianity.If we rule out Paul, James and Peter, then we are left merely to speculate who established the first Christian church in Rome.
Because of Rome
No, Saint Peter was always considered as the leader of the Church, no matter where he was at the time. He eventually ended up in Rome and was considered the Bishop of Rome as well as the leader of the Church. Eventually the title of pope was conferred on his successors.
Saint Peter, in addition to being the Pope (the earthly leader of the entire Church), was the bishop (the senior pastor) of the Christian Church in Rome.
St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, Italy.
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