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  2. 2 days ago · According to "The Moody Handbook of Theology," the official beginning of the Roman Catholic church occurred in 590 C.E., with Pope Gregory I. This time marked the consolidation of lands controlled by the authority of the pope, and thus the church's power, into what would later be known as "the Papal States."

  3. May 1, 2024 · Where did the Roman Catholic Church come from? The Church at Rome, which would later develop into what we know as Roman Catholicism, was started in the apostolic times (circa AD 30-95). Although we do not have records of the first Christian missionaries to Rome, it is evident that a church existed there as the New Testament Scriptures were ...

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    2 days ago · v. t. e. The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, [1] was a major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church.

  5. May 21, 2024 · papacy, the office and jurisdiction of the bishop of Rome, the pope (Latin papa, from Greek pappas, “father”), who presides over the Holy See (the central government) of the Roman Catholic Church. The term pope was originally applied to all the bishops in the West and also used to describe the patriarch of Alexandria, who still retains the ...

  6. May 2, 2024 · The Catholic Church and the Fall of the Roman Empire. This writer and historian looks at the ascension and descension of this once great empire. After Theodosius the Great died in A.D. 395, the Western Roman Empire went into a death-spiral. The fifth century saw not a single great Roman emperor in the West. Instead, there was a succession of ...

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