The History of Christianity

The History of Christianity was not completed when Christ left this earth, it was just beginning.

Paul was the first person to seriously set out to evangelize the world and spread the Good News of Jesus Christ. His example was followed by by the other apostles.

Tradition holds that Bartholomew went to Armenia.

Andrew is reported to have made his way to the Ukraine and southern Russia.

Thomas made his way to Persia and even possibly to India where exists today the Mar-Thoma Church.

Matthew went to Ethiopia.

James the Younger went to Egypt with the message.

Jude seem to have gone to Assyria and Persia

John Mark (author of the Gospel and close companion of Peter) though not an apostle went to Alexandria.

If the Babylon that Peter wrote his epistle from (on the Euphrates - 1 Peter 5:13) was truly Babylon and not symbolic for Rome then Babylon was evangelized in the first century and placed forever in the Bible Timeline.

When the apostles passed on, the spread of Christianity continued. Here is a list of some of the major figures in the history of the Christian faith.

PETER WALDO (c. 1150 -1218)

JOHN WYCLIF (c. 1329 - 1384)

JOHN HUS (1372? - 1415)

SAVONAROLA (1452 - 1498)

Erasmus of Rotterdam (c.1466 - 1536)

Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)

Philip Melancthon (1497 - 1560)

Ulrich Zwingli (1484 - 1531)

John Calvin (1509-1564)

Menno Simons (1496-1561)

Henry VIII (1491-1547)

Elizabeth I (1533-1603)

John Knox (1514?-1572)

Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)

Jacobus Arminius (1560-1609)

Issac Newton (1642-1727)

Voltaire (1694-1778)

George Whitefield (1714-1770)

John Wesley (1703-1791)

Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)

Charles Finney (1792-1875)

D.L.Moody (1837-1899)

Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892)

Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

Karl Marx (1818-1883)

Karl Barth (1886-1968)

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