The researcher explained that inscriptions in churches that served as the main sanctuary of the village or towns generally mentioned the name of the bishop first ... The post In early Christian Holy ...

The status of women in early Christianity has been quite debated ... have the development of a hierarchy of clergy members with bishops, presbyters and deacons, and it's pretty firmly established ...

Early Christian communities produced many gospels ... Among them was Irenaeus, who became the bishop of Lyon, after the Christian community there had suffered a devastating persecution.

About a year before I arrived, Palladius came to Ireland because by now there were enough Christians to need a bishop - so, I wasn't actually the first Christian missionary here.

Robert Francis Prevost, who led the Vatican office that selects and manages bishops around the world, has spent much of his ...

The Catholic Church in general and this [United States] Conference of Bishops in particular has no official ... In so doing, over the course of some centuries, early Christianity came to acknowledge ...

Roman-style Christianity reached the English with the coming of St Augustine to Canterbury in 597. As a papal-appointed archbishop, Augustine expected obedience from the bishops of Wales.

Roman-style Christianity reached the English with the coming of St Augustine to Canterbury in 597. As a papal-appointed archbishop, Augustine expected obedience from the bishops of Wales.