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 ...

Polycarp was a bishop of a place called Smyrna ... that got circulated were very important for the development of early Christianity. Several of the martyrdoms talk about -- of course we don ...

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 ...

The following pages highlight anniversaries of memorable events that occurred this week in Christian history ... and Saint Nicholas of Japan becoming a bishop. Nicholas of Japan made a bishop ...

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.

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.

In the 500 years after the fall of the Roman Empire, the Christianity of Wales had its ... The Roman Church was organised on the basis of bishops located in cities, each bishop with his own ...

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.